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| WEST COURT AND STATUARY, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART, DUBLIN.-The Dublin Science and Art Museum tempts us to linger a little longer yet within its classic walls, which shelter so much that is worthy, and so much more that gives promise of greater things to come. Here we have a glimpse of the West Court, with its graceful statuary and antique relics-many of the latter belonging to what is known as the Dunraven Collection, and mostly of the Egyptian or Oriental school of art. Observe the lovely female figure on the right, fair and graceful as Mother Eve when Adam awoke from the trance, in which his best rib took leave of him, and first gazed entranced upon her fresh, young beauty! Is there anything of the earth more exquisite than the female human form, when not disfigured by the vain and unnatural exactions of hollow and vapid fashion? How different from the ascetic figure of the stern looking Oriental to the left, and the military rigidity of the soldier effigy in the right middle ground! When the ladies, in beauty unadorned, are around, the men are, indeed, nowhere. Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, Her noblest work she classes, O- And then she made the lasses, O! |
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