Out-Door Monuments 
of one sort or another are eminently appro- 
priate. 
The French usually show better taste 
than ourselves in the placing of their works 
of sculpture, and the great Luxembourg and 
Tuileries gardens are adorned by many works 
which are beautifully displayed by their en- 
vironment. But the French are apt to be 
less skilful in dealing with a naturalistic park 
than with formal gardens such as these, and 
so they sometimes make mistakes as pa- 
tent as our own. In the Parc Monceau in 
Paris, for instance, several bronze figures 
and groups are set at a distance from the 
road in the centre of wide quiet stretches of 
lawn, and the arrangement is bad for two 
reasons : the repose of the lawns is dis- 
turbed and their natural character injured 
by the presence of conspicuous artificial feat- 
ures, and the statues are too far from the 
spectator’s eye to be thoroughly well appre- 
ciated. 
But a site which is fitting for a statue may 
not be fitting for any statue. The question of 
scale is very important — the question of the 
right relationship in size of the work of art 
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