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Title: St. Nicholas [serial] Year: 1873 (1870s) Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 Subjects: Children's literature Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.] Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Text Appearing Before Image: and she drove to thetemple in her chariot andcommanded the Theban wo-men to refuse this worship.She also held herself up be-fore them as superior to Leto,and said that the goddess hadonly two children, while she,their queen, had fourteenlovely sons and daughters,any one of whom was worthyof honor. The goddess Letowas so enraged by this, thatshe begged of Apollo andArtemis to take revenge onNiobe. Then they descend-ed, and in one day all thechildren of Niobe were slain,—the sons by Apollo and thedaughters by Artemis. Niobe, thus left alone, couldonly weep, until at last Jupi-ter took pity on her, andturned her into stone, andwhirled her away from Thebesto Mt. Sipylos, the scene ofher childhood. This mythseems meant to show thatpride and insolence will meetwith punishment. The pict-ure on page 400, drawn spe-cially for you by the St.Nicholas artist, shows Ni-obe still defiant, although hersons are lying slain abouther feet. The statue copiedon this page represents the Vol. VIII.—26.

Text Appearing After Image: GALLERY AT puORBrce -a. 402 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. [March, dreadful moment when Niobe sees the last of herchildren falling around her, and is trying to pro-tect her youngest from the arroivs of the sure-aiming gods. Several different statues which exist in othercities and galleries have been thought to be thefigures missing from the group in Florence; how-ever, nothing has been fixed upon concerning them,and there is enough there to make it the most im-portant group of ancient statues now remaining. earthquake. The name of Budrum was then givento the place. In A. D. 1522, some pieces of sculpturewere found there, but it was not until much laterthat Mr. Newton, an Englishman, discovered towhat great monument these remains had belonged.A large collection of statues, reliefs, parts of ani-mals, and other objects was brought to London and The Tomb of Mausolus. The ancient historians tell us of the SevenWonders of the World, and name them as thePyramids of Egypt, the Hanging-Gardens o

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