And as for the calm glory that shines upon her perfect face -- well, I can never hope to describe it.

But there it rests like the shadow of an angel's smile; and power, love, and divinity all have their part in it.

Her eyes are fixed upon the sleeping youth, and perhaps the most extraordinary thing about this beautiful work is the success with which the artist has succeeded in depicting on the sleeper's worn and weary face the sudden rising of a new and spiritual thought as the spell begins to work within his mind.

You can see that an inspiration is breaking in upon the darkness of the man's soul as the dawn breaks in upon the darkness of night.

It is a glorious piece of statuary, and none but a genius could have conceived it.
Between each of the black marble columns is some such group of figures, some allegorical, and some representing the persons and wives of deceased monarchs or great men; but none of them, in our opinion, comes up the one I have described, although several are from the hand of the sculptor and engineer, King Rademas.
In the exact centre of the hall was a solid mass of black marble about the size of a baby's arm-chair, which it rather resembled in appearance.