Out-Door Monuments 
the people are blind and deaf to the differ- 
ence, in aspect and message, between such 
works as these two. Hundreds of persons 
of all classes daily stop to study the Farra- 
gut statue, while, if we watch at the other 
end of the park, we find that scarcely a 
glance is ever directed to the Seward. St. 
Gaudens’s statue of Lincoln not only adorns 
the city of Chicago and teaches its people 
what sculptor’s work should be, but helps 
to interpret the greatest of Americans to 
generations that never knew him. It is im- 
possible to think that it will not have great 
influence upon the conscience and patriotism 
of the youth of Chicago. But will the youth 
of New York profit much by the Lincoln 
statue on Union Square? And who has ever 
cared to inform himself about Bolivar af- 
ter seeing his grotesque equestrian figure in 
Central Park ? 
The proportion of bad monuments to 
good ones in any American city to-day is 
probably at least ten to one ; and the col- 
lective effect of so many poor works in de- 
forming our public places, and discouraging, 
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