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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
RMAN CEMETERY MONUMENTS 
at all the newer cemeteries, is generally expended on the 
entrance, where the portal is made the chief feature of the 
plan. 
It can thus be seen that the plan of the cemetery is 
more directly responsible for the form of the monument 
than it is with us. The small lots all fronting on paths 
make the tablet form almost imperative. Even the spaces 
under the arches and along the walls, while allowing 
greater latitude to the designer, give him but one point 
of view, all these monuments being made to look at from 
the front only. Those in the arcades have a greater 
variety of form and material, granite, marble and bronze 
being often combined in the same work. By the device 
of extending the base toward the front and enclosing the 
lot this variety is greatly increased and has given results 
at the hands of the German designers of extreme origi- 
nality. This is not to say that all the monuments are 
interesting; even more so than with us there is a ten- 
dency to reproduce commonplace forms until they be- 
come intolerable. 
The material most commonly used at the present time 
in the monuments of commerce is a deep black gran- 
ite with large crystals in which the lettering, to be 
made legible, is gilded. On these much more lettering 
is used than with us, with many mottoes and descriptive 
adjectives. The better class of art work is made fromi 
a soft cream colored stone or granite, to which in certain 
ornamental parts, color, mosaic inlays and gilding is 
sometim.es applied, the effect being very artistic and 
agreeable; an innovation which would be worthy of the 
attention of our own designers. Applied bronze orna- 
ments, reliefs and portraits in a variety of colorings are 
largely used. 
As may be seen from the examples here given, great 
individualism is shown by a certain class of monumental 
architects, too extreme perhaps for use in our country, 
but nevertheless stimulating and inspiring in their sug- 
gestion of motives far removed from the commonplace 
ideals which have too long prevailed. 
Berlin. . Ora Coltman. 
TWO TYPES OF GERMAN TABLET MONUMENTS. 
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MASSIVE GERMAN MONUMENTAL TABLET WITH 
BRONZE INSCRIPTION AND DECORAllONS. 
WALL TABLET OF BI.ACK GRANITFi; WITH BRONZE 
DECORATIONS. 
