=The Portrait Statues.=--The sixteen bronze statues set along the balustrade of the galleries represent men illustrious in the various forms of thought and activity typified in the figures just described. The arrangement of the statues is in pairs, each pair flanking one of the eight great piers of the Rotunda. The list of those who have been thus selected to stand as typical representatives of human development and civilization is as follows: Under _Religion_, Moses and St. Paul; _Commerce_, Columbus and Robert Fulton; _History_, Herodotus and Gibbon; _Art_, Michael Angelo (a single figure, but standing at once for Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting) and Beethoven; _Philosophy_, Plato and Lord Bacon; _Poetry_, Homer and Shakespeare; _Law_, Solon and Chancellor Kent (the author of the well-known _Commentaries_); _Science_, Newton and Professor Joseph Henry. The sculptors were: of the _Moses_ and _Gibbon_, Mr. Charles H. Niehaus; _St. Paul_, Mr. John Donoghue (the sculptor of the figure of _Science_); _Columbus_ and _Michael Angelo_, Mr. Paul W. Bartlett (who modelled the figure of _Law_); _Fulton_, Mr. Edward C. Potter; _Herodotus_, Mr. Daniel C. French (_History_); _Beethoven_, Mr. Theodore Baur (_Religion_); _Plato_ and _Bacon_, Mr. John J. Boyle; _Homer_, Mr. Louis St. Gaudens; _Shakespeare_, Mr. Frederick Macmonnies (who did the central doors at the Main Entrance); _Solon_, Mr. F. Wellington Ruckstuhl (the sculptor of the busts of Goethe, Macaulay, and Franklin, in the Entrance Portico); _Kent_, Mr. George Bissell; _Newton_, Mr. C. E. Dallin; and _Henry_, Mr. Herbert Adams, whom the visitor already knows for his work in connection with Mr. Warner on the bronze entrance doors, as well as for his little figures of Minerva in the Main Vestibule. Of these figures, two, the _Moses_ and _St. Paul_, are ideal, though modelled, in a general way, according to conventions long established in Christian art. The _Solon_ is an original study, although, of course, aiming to be entirely Greek in spirit and costume. The _Homer_ follows an ancient ideal bust. The _Herodotus_ and _Plato_ are studied from original Greek sculptures. The features of the other ten are taken from portraits from life, and the costumes are accurately copied from contemporary fashions. [Illustration: HERODOTUS. BY DANIEL C. FRENCH.]