Out-Door Monuments 



of one sort or another are eminently appro- 

 priate. 



The French usually show better taste 

 than ourselves in the placing of their works 

 of sculpture, and the great Luxembourg and 

 Tuileries gardens are adorned by many works 

 which are beautifully displayed by their en- 

 vironment. But the French are apt to be 

 less skilful in deahng with a naturalistic park 

 than with formal gardens such as these, and 

 so they sometimes make mistakes as pa- 

 tent as our own. In the Pare Monceau in 

 Paris, for instance, several bronze figures 

 and groups are set at a distance from the 

 road in the centre of wide quiet stretches of 

 lawn, and the arrangement is bad for two 

 reasons : the repose of the lawns is dis- 

 turbed and their natural character injured 

 by the presence of conspicuous artificial feat- 

 ures, and the statues are too far from the 

 spectator's eye to be thoroughly well appre- 

 ciated. 



But a site which is fitting for a statue may 

 not be fitting for any statue. The question of 

 scale is very important — the question of the 

 right relationship in size of the work of art 



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