Art Out-of-Doors 



should be set at the intersection of roads or 

 paths, on a terrace, near a building, or at 

 the side of a formal avenue. No better sit- 

 uation for statues of certain kinds could be 

 imagined than the Mall in Central Park, 

 where a long double row, alternating Vv'ith 

 the symmetrically spaced elms, would great- 

 ly increase the stately beauty of the prome- 

 nade as well as its interest to the people 

 who frequent it. Commonwealth Avenue 

 in Boston, with its wide open walk between 

 double rows of trees, flanked by two drive- 

 ways, looks as though specially designed for 

 the reception of monuments : and it will be 

 well if the entrance avenue of Druid Park 

 in Baltimore some day sees its rows of mo- 

 notonous, ugly urns, suggestive only of the 

 Forty Thieves, replaced by varied yet har- 

 monizing works of art. In Washington ex- 

 cellent situations, especially for equestrian 

 statues or groups, are offered by the large 

 circles and triangles which so frequently 

 break the lines of radiating streets ; and, of 

 course, every city has certain little squares 

 and open corners where, alone or in com- 

 bination with trees and shrubs, monuments 



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