Art Out-of. Doors 



climate of Greece, and a statue sitting plac- 

 idly with its lap full of snow does not pro- 

 duce a very fortunate effect. 



Finally, the treatment of the ground 

 around the base of a monument should be 

 given due attention. The equestrian statue 

 of "Washington in the Public Garden at Bos- 

 ton is excellently placed, near the boundary 

 of the pleasure-ground at the intersection of 

 its main paths. But when I saw it last it 

 had a curiously inappropriate look owing to 

 the mass of tall, exotic plants which encir- 

 cled its base. The profusion of these plants 

 obliterated the connection of the pedestal 

 with the soil, without supplying any strong 

 connecting lines of stem and branch which 

 might seem to bind them together : and 

 their freely waving lea^'cs were out of har- 

 mony with the rigid architectural lines. If 

 the pedestal had risen naked from the 

 smoothly clipped turf it would have looked 

 much better, but best of all if partly draped 

 in a closely clinging vine, vrhich would not 

 have disguised its form, yet, instead of sepa- 

 rating it from the ground, would have con- 



