Art Out-of-Doors 
should be set at the intersection of roads or 
paths, on a terrace, near a building, or at 
the side of a formal avenue. No better sit- 
uation for statues of certain kinds could be 
imagined than the Mall in Central Park, 
where a long double row, alternating with 
the symmetrically spaced elms, would great- 
ly increase the stately beauty of the prome- 
nade as well as its interest to the people 
who frequent it. Commonwealth Avenue 
in Boston, with its wide open walk between 
double rows of trees, flanked by two drive- 
ways, looks as though specially designed for 
the reception of monuments ; and it will be 
well if the entrance avenue of Druid Park 
in Baltimore some day sees its rows of mo- 
notonous, ugly urns, suggestive only of the 
Forty Thieves, replaced by varied yet har- 
monizing works of art. In Washington ex- 
cellent situations, especially for equestrian 
statues or groups, are offered by the large 
circles and triangles which so frequently 
break the lines of radiating streets ; and, of 
course, every city has certain little squares 
and open corners where, alone or in com- 
bination with trees and shrubs, monuments 
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