Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. _Shirley._ Art is long, and Time is fleeting. _Longfellow._ The history of the world is the biography of great men. _Carlyle._ Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch. _Bacon._ Glory is acquired by virtue but preserved by letters. _Petrarch._ The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. _Dionysius._ The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. _Dr. Johnson._ There is only one good, namely knowledge, and one only evil, namely ignorance. _Diogenes Laertius._ Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. _Tennyson._ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. _Proverbs iv, 7._ Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. _2 Henry IV._ How charming is divine Philosophy! _Milton._ Books must follow sciences and not sciences books. _Bacon._ In books lies the Soul of the whole past time. _Carlyle._ Words are also actions and actions are a kind of words. _Emerson._ Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. _Bacon._ Science is organized knowledge. _Herbert Spencer._ Beauty is truth, truth beauty. _Keats._ THE ENTRANCE TO THE ROTUNDA. The vaulting of the broad passageway leading to the Reading Room consists of a series of six small domes, the ornamentation of which is similar, in its more modest way, to that of the vaulted corridors which the visitor has just left. The colors are light and bright, and the three different patterns employed consist mainly of garlands and ribbons, and of simple bands of color radiating from a central medallion. Swans, eagles, or owls are introduced both in the domes and as the ornament of the pendentives, and eagles occur between the double consoles which receive the weight of the domes upon the east wall. In the medallions just referred to are various objects symbolizing the Fine Arts--tragic and comic masks, for Acting; a lyre, for Music; a block of marble, half shaped into a bust, and sculptors’ tools, for Sculpture; a lamp, scrolls, and an open book, for Literature; and the capital of an Ionic column, a triangle, and some sheets of parchment, for Architecture. [Illustration: JUSTICE. BY GEORGE W. MAYNARD.]