Art Out-of-Doors 
non-commemorative works of art to our parks 
would intelligently consider what kinds are 
fitted for out-door erection. Broadly speak- 
ing, a statue or group looks best out-of-doors 
when it has a definite out-door character it- 
self. The Falconer of which I just spoke is, 
in idea, a most excellent out-door figure, 
and so is Mr. Ward’s Indian Hunter; but 
in another spot in Central Park there is a 
group called Auld Lang Syne, which seems 
to cry out for a roof above its head. No 
one would care to see, under the open sky, 
the figure of a mother rocking her baby to 
sleep ; but a peasant mother trudging home- 
ward from the field with her sleeping baby 
on her arm might be wholly satisfactory. 
The question of appropriate placing natu- 
rally includes the character as well as the 
size of a monument. As the Falconer stands, 
or even as the Indian Hunter stands, on the 
edge of a road under a spreading tree, no 
one should think of placing a portrait-figure. 
And in certain retired nooks in the rural 
portions of a park we can fancy little groups 
of animals or rustic children looking well, 
although a commemorative or a highly ideal- 
