Out-Door Monuments 
hard times ; why make his trouble greater 
by insisting that he shall portray the whole 
body in cases where not the body but the 
mind of the man is what we really wish to 
commemorate ? 
In the second place, it is as difficult in 
cases such as this to evolve an appropriate 
conception of a full-length figure as to exe- 
cute it beautifully when it is found. Unless 
a man’s physical presence has been promi- 
nently associated with his service to the pub- 
lic, how shall it be posed and presented so 
as to express any clear and dignified idea ? 
The broad rule seems to be that a man of 
action should be portrayed at full length, 
standing or mounted as the case may be, 
and that, for men who have labored rather 
with the brain alone than with brain and 
body together, a seated figure is sometimes 
desirable, while, most often, a portrait of the 
head alone will suffice. No one would be 
satisfied with a figure of Sherman except on 
horseback ; a bust of Farragut could never 
have expressed him as does our bold quar- 
ter-deck figure ; nor could a great orator be 
fully characterized except as standing upon 
