Excerpt from Treasures of the Metropolitan Museum As has been said, the Scope of the Museum is most compre hensive. In art matters, from the earliest beginnings to the latest word in foreign or domestic work, record is kept here. The archaic Egyptian, or the up to date impressionist, can be studied here; the masters of the Spanish, Dutch, Italian or Ger man schools may be compared, while the first of the Colonial American portrait painters can be seen in all their sturdiness. There are statues and plaster reproductions of the masters of Greek and Roman art and there are models of famous build ings, churches and monuments of the highest importance and interest. But the list does not stop here, for the delicacy of the goldsmith's and the iron and steel worker's art is displayed; the gems of the looms of France and other European countries are on exhibition, in fine and delicate textiles, and there are ceramics to make the collector's heart glad. The history of music is told in a collection of instruments, from the first inven tions of man in a savage state to the most modern make, and there are drawings, photographs and materials of all sorts bear ing on various branches of matters aesthetic. In short, no form of art work has been neglected where it has been possible to procure a specimen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.