CHAP. XX. LOUGH'S STATUE. 459 



The statue here referred to was placed in St. George's 

 Hall, Liverpool. A full-length statue of the deceased, 

 by Bailey, was also erected a few years later, in the 

 noble vestibule of the London and North Western Sta- 

 tion, in Euston Square. A subscription for the purpose 

 was set on foot by the Society of Mechanical Engineers, 

 of which he had been the founder and president. A 

 few advertisements were inserted in the newspapers, 

 inviting subscriptions ; and it is a notable fact that the 

 voluntary offerings included an average of two shillings 

 each from 3150 working men, who embraced this oppor- 

 tunity of doing honour to their distinguished fellow 

 workman . 



But unquestionably the finest and most appropriate 

 statue to the memory of George Stephenson is that 

 erected in the course of the present year at Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne. It is in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Institute, to which both 

 George and his son Robert were so much indebted, in 

 their early years ; close to the great Stephenson locomo- 

 tive foundry established by the shrewdness of the father ; 

 and in the vicinity of the High Level Bridge, one of the 

 grandest products of the genius of the son. The statue 

 is by John Lough, a sculptor whose genius is equalled 

 by his modesty. The head of Stephenson, as expressed 

 in this noble work, is massive, characteristic, and 

 faithful ; and the attitude of the figure is simple yet 

 manly and energetic. It stands on a pedestal, at the 

 respective corners of which are sculptured the recum- 

 bent figures of a pitman, a mechanic, an engine-driver, 

 and a plate-layer. These figures are admirably exe- 

 cuted, and their design in connection with the central 

 figure seems to us quite original. The statue appro- 

 priately stands in a very thoroughfare of working men, 

 thousands of whom see it daily as they pass to and from 

 their work ; and we can imagine them, as they look up 

 to Stephenson' s manly figure, applying to it the words 



