Cemeteries 
few weeks, such a thing as a great artist 
could not execute without many months of 
careful study. Gradually, however, we are 
coming to realize that this is not the way to 
secure monuments for public display. Grad- 
ually we are learning that the artist’s part in 
them is quite as important as the stone-cut- 
ter’s or the mason’s. But just in the place 
where one might think good taste would 
most surely prevail, and no care or pains 
would be counted too great— just here we 
do even worse than with our public monu- 
ments. In our cemeteries we still feel that 
we can dispense altogether with the artist’s 
aid. When we commemorate our own be- 
loved dead we think less of true beauty in 
the result than when we buy a dress or fur- 
nish a drawing-room. The stone-yard stands 
close to the cemetery’s gate ; and to the 
stone-yard we contentedly go when we want 
a slab or headstone, or even an emblematic 
figure or an elaborate architectural monu- 
ment. 
There is a chance for the exercise of true 
art in the designing of even the simplest 
head-stone ; and there is the certainty of a 
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