Out-Door Monuments 
istic figure would be out of harmony with 
the expression of the spot. 
For obvious reasons it is less easy to give 
the right out-door look to a seated than to a 
standing figure of the commemorative sort ; 
but a seated figure looks better, I think, in 
those portions of a park where living people 
sit at rest, and the idea of repose is in 
the air, than in a city’s rushing streets. 
Seward, poising his pen on the corner of 
Madison Square, seems sadly out of place, 
and many travellers must have noticed in 
London the almost comically inappropriate 
air of the sitting figure of George Peabody, 
surrounded by the City’s crowds and clamor. 
Sometimes the architect might well be asked 
to furnish, not merely a base for a seated 
figure, but also some sort of a canopy or 
roof to mitigate the impression that it ought 
not to be out-of-doors. It would be inter- * 
esting to know just how the Greeks and 
Romans dealt with this question of sitting 
figures ; it seems as though they must have 
preferred to place them under porches or 
colonnades rather than boldly beneath the 
sky. But in any case our climate is not the 
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