In Winter Quarters 



cast in bronze sitting or standing or 

 riding around here in the park. I 

 don't think tourists travel overseas 

 to see any of them. Saint Gaudens' 

 Lincoln is a truly noble conception, 

 and lends dignity to this entire section 

 of the city, but I am not so sure of the 

 equestrian Grant and half-a-dozen 

 others. There is one thing though in 

 respect to these monuments for which 

 I am duly grateful. The two that I 

 have to live with are Linne and Shake- 

 speare. I might have landed in an 

 apartment facing the park farther to 

 the north and had to look willy-nilly 

 at that monstrous Goethe. So all is 

 not hopeless. I really do not know 

 whether the heroic figure of the great 

 Swedish naturalist is art or not. I 

 have my suspicions. But just the same 

 I love to go over there and visit with 

 him. He stands in a bosky bend of the 

 driveway but a few hundred yards 

 from our window, and is to me a con- 

 stant reminder of woodlands wild and 

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