Out-Door Monuments 
not allowed to choose whether he will sub- 
ordinate it or not. 
Of course works of sculpture, or of archi- 
tecture and sculpture combined, are just 
as appropriate for urban adornment when 
their value is simply artistic as when it is 
commemorative, historical. Indeed, there 
is a chance that beauty will be greater 
in such works than in portrait-monuments, 
and so it is especially desirable, for the 
sake of the public’s pleasure and the de- 
velopment of its taste, that they should 
be more generally placed in our streets and 
parks. ' When they are given to a city the 
question of site will almost always arise af- 
ter the artist has finished his work. Then, 
if possible, he should be consulted with re- 
gard to its placing; and in any case this 
placing should be very carefully considered. 
Likewise, the pedestal should be as intelli- 
gently designed as that of a portrait-figure. 
For neither class of works is a plain base 
always the best ; and nothing less than the 
best should satisfy us in constructions of so 
permanent a sort. 
It would be well, too, if those who give 
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