EFFIGIES AND MONUMENTS IN PARKS 



there is the Memorial Garden to Kaiserin Ehsabeth in Vienna, a very 

 lovely spot, so much like a private garden that one enters as though by 

 special privilege. We have read much of and seen much pictured the 

 Children's Fairy Garden, in the Friedrichshain, Berlin, with its foun- 

 tain and pool ornamented with fantastic statuettes of Red Riding 

 Hood, Puss in Boots, Hansel and Gretel, and other legendary figures. 

 Can one imagine this delightful garden replaced with a heroic com- 

 posite statue commemorating the writers of these children's tales by 

 personal image, recording the past instead of illuminating the future. 

 The Mac^NIillan Fountain in Washington and the Butt-lNIillet Me- 

 morial Fountain are each more eloquent tributes to the memory of 

 these men than would have been graven images of their likenesses. 

 In Boston, one of the walks of the Conmion has been named the 

 " Oliver Wendell Hohiies Walk," a suggestion that could well be 

 followed elsewhere, utilising memorial funds and appropriations in 

 the actual construction of parks rather than b}^ their subsequent usurp- 

 tion by monuments. The usual effigy should be banned from park 

 precincts. 



STATUES TO SERVE AND NOT TO SUBJUGATE 



In cases where portrait statues must arbitrarily be given places in 

 parks, especially in small parks, they should never be allowed to 

 dominate the design ; in other words, they should not be located at the 

 exact centre, especially in the case of newly-acquired parks. It should 

 not be taken for granted that statues shall form the central embellish- 

 ment of the areas. There is no doubt that the obtaining of a statue 

 hastens the improvement of park spaces, but the precedent should be 

 established of placing the potential statue in a sequestered corner, 

 never permitting it to occupy and devitalise the central portion of the 

 park area. A very happy location is often found as a part of the 

 entrance treatment to a park. In the Lizzi at Siena, and the Montag- 

 nola Park at Bologna, imj^osing equestrian statues dominate the en- 

 trance plazas, and we have St. Gaudens' statue of Sherman similarly 



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