Fero splendor di due begit occhi accrebbe Gia marmi a marmi; e stupor nuovo e strano Ruvidi marmi delicta mano Fea dianzi vivi, ahi! morte invidia n’ebbe. In modern Germany =Anna von Kahle=, =Marie Schlafhorst=, =Dora Beer=, =Helene Quitmann=, =Henny Geyer Spiegel= and =Lilly Finzelberg= have done much excellent work. In France several statues by =Jeanne Hasse=, a Parisian, have been purchased by the government and presented to various provincial museums. In England =Mary Thornycroft=, daughter and pupil of John Francis, the sculptor, has won the praise of the severest critics. In America =Annie Whitney’s= statue of “Lady Godiva” as well as her “Africa” and “Roma” have been much praised. =Helen Farnworth Mears= is well known for her “Fountain of Life.” =Vinnie Ream Hoxie= modelled a life-size statue of Lincoln, which stands in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. A statue of Farragut in Farragut Square is by the same artist. Another American woman sculptor of renown was =Harriet Hosmer=, born in 1830 in Watertown, Mass. Having received her first instruction in Boston and St. Louis, she went to Rome in 1852 where she became a pupil of Gibson. Of her various works, the best known are “Beatrice Cenci in Her Cell”; “Willo’-the-Wisp”; “The Sleeping and the Waking Faun”; and a colossal statue of “Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, in Chains.” She exhibited a statue of Queen Isabella of Spain at the World’s Columbian Exposition. A statue of “Puck” was so spirited and original, that it was ordered more than thirty times, is also her work. =Emma Stebbins= (1815–1882) produced a statue of Horace Mann for Boston, and a large fountain for Central Park, New York, the subject being “The Angel of the Waters.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has in its collections several works by =Frances Grimes=, =Laura Gardin=, =Malvina Hoffman=, and =Evelyn Longman=. Miss Hoffman’s best known work, “The Russian Bachanale,” showing two almost nude dancing figures in bronze, was in 1919 presented by an American connoisseur to the famous Gardens of the Luxembourg in Paris. * * * * * The United States of America produced also the first women architects. In 1881 =Louise Bethune= took the lead. Somewhat later the New York firm =Hands & Gannon=, both members of which were women, designed the plans for numerous schools, hospitals, and model homes for the working people. =Elizabeth Holman= in Philadelphia became favorably known for her excellent designs for theatres, hotels, and cottages. =Mrs. Wagner= in Pittsburgh made a specialty of university buildings, churches and chapels.