Art Out-of-Doors 
a large part of the impressiveness of the 
Farragut in Madison Square depends upon 
the size and ornamentation of its base, al- 
though, from the architectural point of 
view, the design is not as good as it ought 
to be. But very poor or very inappropri- 
ate bases are still the rule — bases designed 
by men who may be good sculptors but 
have no architectural knowledge, or left to 
the discretion of the persons who supply 
the stone. 
Occasionally we even see an instance of 
their total abolition, in curious disregard of 
that fundamental rule which mere common- 
sense might teach, and which says that a 
work of art must always be confessed and 
emphasized as such. In Central Park Mr. 
Kemys’s fine figure of an American panther 
crouching for its spring is set, without any 
pedestal, on the top of a vine-covered rock 
overhanging the driveway. I believe this 
was done against the sculptor’s protest ; and 
certainly no true artist would sanction so 
puerile an effort to pretend that a bronze 
figure is a living animal. Again, on the 
Gettysburg battle-field, the statue of an offi- 
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