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pediment of the orphanage at Uccle, " Figure Kneeling" (Brussels GalIery), and the statue of the lawyer Metdepenningen in front of the Palais de Justice at See also:

GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent, he was awarded the See also:

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour in 1889 at the See also:

Paris Universal See also:

EXHIBITION

Exhibition, where, in 1900, his " Two Statues of the Anspach See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

Monument" gained him a similar distinction. For the See also:

TOWN

town of Brussels he executed "The Four Continents " (Maison du See also:

RENARD, ALPHONSE FRANCOIS (1842-1903)

Renard, See also:

GRAND

Grand' See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

Place), " The Lansquenets " crowning the lucarnes of the Maison de Roi, and the " Monument t' Serclaes " under the arcades of the Maison de 1'Etoile, and, for the Belgian See also:

government, " Flemish See also:

Art," " See also:

German Art," " Classic Art " and " Art applied to See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

Industry " (all in the Palais See also:

des See also:

BEAUX, CECILIA (1863– )

Beaux Arts, Brussels), " The See also:

LAUREL

Laurel " (Botanic See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden, Brussels), and the statue of " See also:

Bernard See also:

van See also:

ORLEY

Orley" (Place du See also:

PETIT, SIR DINSHAW MANECKJI, BART

petit Sablon, Brussels). Mention must also be made of " An See also:

ENIGMA (Gr. aTvcyµa)

Enigma " (1876), the See also:

BRONZE

bronze busts of " See also:

ROGIER, CHARLES LATOUR (1800–1885)

Rogier de la Pasture" and " P. P. See also:

RUBENS, PETER PAUL (1577-164o)

Rubens " (1879), " See also:

ETRURIA

Etruria " (188o), " The Painter See also:

Leon See also:

FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898)

Frederic " (1888), " Madame Leon Herbo," " See also:

Hermes," a See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of decoration for the ogival See also:

FACADE

facade of the hotel de ville at Ghent (1893), " The See also:

GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

Genius of the Funeral Monument of the Moselli See also:

FAMILY

Family," " The Silence of See also:

DEATH

Death " (for the entrance of the See also:

CEMETERY (Gr. Korrsnri7pwv, from Hoiµav, to sleep)

cemetery of St Gilles), two See also:

CARYATIDES (Latinized from the Greek; the plural of Caryatis, i.e. a woman of Caryae in Laconia)

caryatides for the town See also:

hall of St Gilles, presentation plaquette to Dr Heger, medals of MM. Godefroid and Vanderkindere and of The Three Burgomasters of Brussels," and the ivories " Allegretto," " See also:

MINERVA

Minerva" and the " Jamaer Memorial." Dillens died at Brussels in See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1904.

End of Article: DILLENS, JULIEN (1849-1904)

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