Out-Door Monuments 



hard times ; why make his trouble greater 

 by insisting that he shall portray the whole 

 body in cases where not the body but the 

 mind of the man is what we really wish to 

 commemorate ? 



In the second place, it is as difficult in 

 cases such as this to evolve an appropriate 

 conception of a full-length figure as to exe- 

 cute it beautifully when it is found. Unless 

 a man's physical presence has been promi- 

 nently associated with his service to the pub- 

 lic, how shall it be posed and presented so 

 . as to express any clear and dignified idea ? 

 The broad rule seems to be that a man of 

 action should be portrayed at full length, 

 standing or mounted as the case may be, 

 and that, for men who have labored rather 

 with the brain alone than with brain and 

 body together, a seated figure is sometimes 

 desirable, while, most often, a portrait of the 

 head alone will suffice. No one would be 

 satisfied with a figure of Sherman except on 

 horseback ; a bust of Farragut could never 

 have expressed him as does our bold quar- 

 ter-deck figure ; nor could a great orator be 

 fully characterized except as standing upon 



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