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paintings executed by Mr. Krehbiel in addition to two ceiling decorations. It is an end panel of the Appellate Court late Court room represents "The Light of the Law.” From the centre of the

lizing the fundamental laws of human life. As the theme as a whole sets forth the harmony of the universe, the design is entitled, "The Supremacy of the Law." The spirits of good and of evil are in the centre. Good is shown as

composition, which measures twenty six by sixteen feet, radiates the light. Around it ﬂoat graceful female ﬁgures bearing torches to the four groups of

sinister. A cycle of four laws revolves around this centre. The law of love appears in the form of the union of man

ﬁgures arranged on the opposite sides

and woman, the man leading his mate

room frieze.

The ceiling of the Appel

of the border and symbolizing the vari ous divisions of law entering into Ameri

can jurisprudence. To the Common Law is borne the light of reason; to Mosaic Law the light of revelation; to Civil Law the light of order, and to

Canon Law the light of inspiration. The Common Law group shows its chief exponent in the character of Alfred the Great, supported by ﬁgures in whose keeping are the reports, digests and com

mentaries of that law. Mosaic Law is personiﬁed by the ﬁgure of Moses, with attendants holding the two tables of the Commandments. Civil Law is typiﬁed by Justinian, and grouped about him

are three ﬁgures bearing the pandects, institutes and codes. In the Canon

free and triumphant, Evil as veiled and

to establish a home; and of maternal love, in which the mother ministers to the child; the law of self-preservation, in which the chief ﬁgure wards off a threatening tion, typiﬁeddanger; by two the aerial lawﬁgures of evolu~ that rise out of darkness towards the light; the law of life and death, in which the

spirit of death pursues life, which soars unmindful of its swift approach. The charm of the panel “Law and Equity" comes largely from the natural attitudes of the ﬁgures, the composition

being free from stiffness and arranged with grace and dignity. The truthful portrayal of familiar types gives the pic ture the character of distinctive Ameri can art. The painter has limned his

Law group is Gregory IX, attended by

ﬁgures with a truly affectionate gentle

ﬁgures supporting the two important

ness, and the symbolism of the picture

decrees of that pontiﬁ'.

is the more effective because of its interpretation of the spirit of the law

The ceiling of the Supreme Court room, measuring twenty-one by sixteen feet, represents symbolically the prin

as one pre-eminently of peace substi

ciple of ‘Law in the governing of all

the children, and prominent places given to father and mother, widow and orphan, make a homelyI intimate appeal which is unusual in a work of this kind.

things. In the midst of storm clouds, light and darkness, and other phases of nature, are four groups of ﬁgures symbo

tuted for discord.

The treatment of