PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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THE GREATEST EXHIBIT 
of AMERICAN SCULPTURE 
excellent opportunity to properly set olif the works of 
sculpture. Most of the trees and garden decorations were 
donated by the Loudon Park, Greenmount and Druid Ridge 
Cemeteries, Druid Hill, Harlem, Carroll and Patterson 
Parks, and a number of dealers and private citizens. 
The floral display was just sufficient to set off the marbles, 
bronzes and plasters instead of entering into active compe- 
tition with them,- as it did in the exhibition of this society 
in New York. Fortunately, the exhibits filled the immense 
hall to just the right degree of completement. 
Particularly happy in their setting of greenery were such 
FISHPtR BOY; WABB FOBNTAIN. 
Ijtonard Crunelle, Sc. 
exhibits as Leonard Crunelle’s "Fisher Boy" fountain or 
the “Nature’s Sun Dial," of J. Scott Hartley, secretary of 
the society. This amusing little faun, with his little goat’s 
legs, his furry ears and his budding horns, experimenting 
with the eciually youthful frog who has just leaped up un- 
bidden on his toadstool table, has that air of plausibility 
which it is so difficult to get in the rendering of these fables. 
The neatness of the adaptaticn of the group to its practical 
use as a time-piece is also noticeable — the figures ol the 
dial, incised around tlie circumference, do not obtrude them- 
selves, and the little rod which tests the youthful reptile’s 
nose, when neatly gilded, ser\'es excellently well as a 
gnomon to mark the flight of the sunny hours. 
The exhibition of the National Sculpture Society held in 
Baltimore from April 4 to 30 is generally regarded as in 
many ways the most impressive and remarkable showing of 
contemporary American sculpture yet seen in this country, 
and Baltimore is warmly praised by the artists for the cor- 
dial reception and support given to the first exhibition of 
the society to be held outside of New York. 
No small part of the pleasing effect of the exhibition was 
due to the setting given to the works of sculpture, num- 
bering 461, by the appropriate placing of trees, shrubs and 
plants, giving in some degree suggestion to sculptors of the 
importance of an adequate landscape setting. 
"NATT.’RE'S SUN DIAB.” 
.1. Scott Hartley. Sc. 
In this connection, Mr. Daniel Chester French, one ot 
the leading exhibitors at the show, is quoted as saying in 
connection with the location of one of his works in Kansas 
City: "Kansas City should not make the mistake that the 
eastern cities have made and are just beginning to realize 
in regard to the surroundings of statues, A statue should 
be a part of formal gardening and not of a natural or imi- 
tation natural park setting. It is the work of man and 
should be placed where the work of human hands is evi- 
dent to tnfly harmonize with its surroundings.” 
The Fifth Regiment Armory, the largest structure of its 
kind in the country, with a floor space of 200 x ,'iOO feet, 
was presented to the society free of charge, and offered an 
