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‘w York is entitled to be called the American city of foun- 
ad g um behind it, 
and with its superb setting of fine Sie this fountain is 
indeed a thing of rare beauty. 
plunging bronze horses of heroic size are seen leaping, 
0 ne hi 
a merry gesture. The other horse bears a boy, who endeavors 
to pean his ammal with one hand and with the other he grasps 
a fish by 
In the poo ee a merman and a mermaid, alarmed at the 
sudden approach of the strange wild steeds, turn hastily aside 
d es is b 
e 
as it were, the great life principle of pit gle for Existen 
i e Fittest.” The ma ivaci 
Bi 
and “Survival of th e rvellous vivacity a 
motion displayed i i ue group certainly give force to the 
idea e most original feature of this wor the treatment of 
the feet of the orses. “umbrella feet,’ as he 
calls them, fft has established a prece n lassic 
den horses of Versailles and in the aquatic horses of Germ: 
and Italian examples et are invariably clov. 
No m avorable critic of this superb fountain coul 
possibly be uttered that expressed by the late Augustu: 
St.-Gaudens, who was enthusiastic in his praise of the strength 
of its composition and the beauty of its execution. A com- 
