Thomas W. Dewing, more identified with easel work, has nevertheless executed several charming decorations, one in the Imperial Hotel, New York, “Dawn,” ranking high indeed. It has all the man’s personal color vision, and is exquisitely dainty and graceful. Several men were concerned in the wall decorations of the Appellate Court, among them H. Siddons Mowbray and Willard L. Metcalf. The first named chose for theme “The Transmission of the Law,” which he rendered in a scholarly as well as artistic manner. Mr. Mowbray has executed a ceiling for the library of the University Club of New York, a large work for the Newark courthouse, and many private commissions. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel gave early opportunities for the work of Will H. Low and Frank Fowler, both of whom carried out interesting schemes of decoration; while work in the church of the Paulist Fathers in New York offered a similar chance for William Laurel Harris. Fred Dana Marsh showed the possibilities of large engineering achievements for decorative material in a large panel in the rooms of the United Engineering Societies. It is an apotheosis[3] of labor, of the pick, the shovel, and the iron and steel worker, and Mr. Marsh was singularly original in the composition. [3] An apotheosis celebrates and exalts a subject in ideal forms of expression. [Illustration: THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE EASTERN GATEWAY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT By Taber Sears, in the New York City Hall] John W. Alexander, better known as a portrait painter, also chose similar themes with which to decorate the Carnegie Institute of Art in Pittsburgh, a successful piece of work. Robert van V. Sewell, for the home of George Gould, at Lakewood, did a fine frieze representing “The Canterbury Tales.” And a later man is Barry Faulkner, whose panel for the home of Mrs. Harriman, “Famous Women,” is a happy arrangement of the many celebrated feminists. The work of Albert Herter is specially noteworthy. Hugo Ballin has executed large decorative work, and Howard G. Cushing has made strikingly original panels. Other men are Taber Sears, with altar pieces, Joseph Lauber, Charles M. Shean, Douglas Volk, and William B. Van Ingen. Walter Shirlaw occupied himself at times with decorations, and Abbott H. Thayer has likewise executed a few notable mural paintings. SUPPLEMENTARY READING MURAL PAINTING IN AMERICA _By Edwin Howland Blashfield._ Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. AMERICAN MURAL PAINTING _By Pauline King._ Noyes, Platt & Co., Boston. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PAINTING _By Samuel Isham._ The Macmillan Company, New York. THE STORY OF AMERICAN PAINTING _By Charles H. Caffin._ Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. THE MENTOR READING CIRCLE [Illustration: CHARITY, by Abbott Thayer In the Boston Museum]