Art Out-of-Doors 
hideous result when anything more compli- 
cated is designed without an artist's help. 
The big, awkward tombs, the tall, ungraceful 
shafts, the clumsy, meaningless, hideous fig- 
ures, and the commonplace, ill-proportioned 
head-stones which fill our cemeteries, would 
be exasperating if they were not so pitiful. 
They are tributes of true affection, often 
costing, one cannot doubt, a great deal 
more than their givers could rightly afford 
to pay ; and thus, in their distressing failure 
to be either beautiful or expressive, they 
bring a tear to the eye rather than a word 
of scorn or anger to the lips. If, in thus 
telling other people that we loved our dead, 
we could consent to speak less loudly and 
more carefully, how beautiful, how touch- 
ing and impressive a cemetery might be ! 
The price now paid for a big monument, 
bad in design and worse in ornamentation, 
might persuade even a great artist to design 
a cross or head-stone which, in its simple 
way, would be an object of the utmost value. 
Such an object would really honor the mem- 
ory of our dead, instead of simply shouting 
out their names with a crude and vulgar 
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