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 THE SUPREME COURT-ROOM sentatives the north, and the Supreme Court the east wing. The Supreme court-room is a large, square chamber, architecturally severe, surmounted by a domed skylight. The walls are pan elled in three tones of warm gray, relieved with gold and bands of gray-blue. Back of the raised platform upon which are the chairs of the justices are four white marble columns with gilded ionic capitals, gleam ing against a hanging of dull red. The fur niture is rich San Domingo mahogany, simple in design. Without any mural decoration the room

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friends discussing the Republic as in Plato's account; The Recording of Precedents — Confucius and his pupils collating and de scribing documents in their favorite grove; The Adjustment of Conflicting Interests — Count Raymond, of Toulouse, swearing at the altar to observe the liberties of the city, in the presence of the bishops, the repre sentatives of religious orders, and the mag istrates of the city. It has been the artist's aim in these paint ings to present the feeling of different and special historical moments and to portray the various attitudes of mind of the actors

THE RELATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE STATE (Copyright, 1904, by John La Forge)

would be too severe, would even be cold; but Mr. La Farge has so admirably consid ered his paintings in relation to their setting, that they furnish just the right amount of embellishment without giving a feeling of over-decoration. So often wall-paintings seem to be unnecessary, but in the case of this room they fill a want and fill it exactly. There are to be four lunettes by John La Farge, two of which are now in place. The subjects of the decorations are: Moral and Divine Law — Moses receiving the Law on Mount Sinai; The Relation of the Indi vidual to the State — Socrates and his

therein. As he himself says: "In Moses on Mount Sinai, the forces of nature and con science contend. In Socrates and his Friends, there has been a wish to convey in a typical manner the serenity and good-nature which is the note of the famous book and of Greek thought and philosophy. In Confucius and Pupils, a serenity of purpose, somewhat akin to the Greek, but more in the manner of instruction and less of argument. In the Adjustment of Interests, the figures in the story, acting within the four walls of the church, represent the organized bodies whose chiefs and representatives meet in a