=The Portico Busts.=--The list of the men commemorated by the nine busts in the portico is as follows: Demosthenes, Emerson, Irving, Goethe, Franklin, Macaulay, Hawthorne, Scott, and Dante. The _Demosthenes_, _Scott_, and _Dante_ were modelled by Mr. Herbert Adams; the _Emerson_, _Irving_, and _Hawthorne_ by Mr. J. Scott Hartley; and the _Goethe_, _Franklin_, and _Macaulay_ by Mr. F. Wellington Ruckstuhl. The reader will see that so far as possible with an odd number, the work of each sculptor is, so to say, in balance--Mr. Ruckstuhl’s in the centre, flanked by Mr. Hartley’s, and Mr. Adams’s at either end--thus avoiding any possible confusion of style, and giving the artist all the advantage which comes from a symmetrical disposition of his productions. There is, as a matter of fact, very little diversity in the present series. Each bust is of uniform height--about three feet, not reckoning the pedestal--with a uniform background. The statue of Franklin, coming in the centre, has, intentionally, a certain effect of pre-eminence. The sculptor conceived him “as one of the greatest men of this country, and as a writer and philosopher the patriarch, and therefore aimed to make him dominate the rest.” A word should be said regarding the background of the busts--the glass enclosed in the framing of the circular windows. The effect, as always of a window, is dark, as granite would not have been, thus throwing the busts, which are of the same material as the walls, into sharp, strong relief. [Illustration: COREAN. JAPANESE. AINO.] [Illustration: BURMESE. THIBETAN. CHINESE.]