Readers of tho "Excelsior," who wore 

 rocentTy askod to choose the twenty 

 statues in th(. strfcts of I'aris they, 

 would preserve if tlie ,-Pmi,iij<ler iiad to' 

 m (lestrovrti, have seleetril Joan of 

 Arc, Past-eur, Napoleon I., Victor I!n"o 

 Gambetta and Henri IV. a.s IJio fh'at 

 half-dozen in tlm order nain.d Iteiilies 

 were sent in hy 7,280 readers. 



