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GREATEST AMERICAN IDEAL FOUNTAIN MEMORIAL 
In “The Fountain of the Lakes,” un- 
veiled September 9, Chicago has what is 
generally regarded as the greatest public 
work of ideal sculpture in this country, and 
theme it is unsurpassed in American sculp- 
ture, and will rank in our art history with 
such works as Mr. French’s “Death and 
the Sculptor,” and Saint-Gaudens’ wonder- 
be conceived. It is one of those great, 
elemental ideas, a powerful monumental 
thought, clearly conceived and beautifully 
executed. It is a symbolic expression of 
THE SPIRIT OF THE GREAT LAKES; UNVEILED IN CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 9. 
Lorado Taft, Sc. 
one of the most expressive and beautiful 
sculptured groups in any country. For im- 
aginative feeling, refined, and direct ex- 
pression of a great, simple monumental 
ful Adams memorial in Washington. 
It memoralizes in a beautiful monu- 
mental group the Spirit of the Great Lakes, 
and a more inspiring theme could scarcely 
the power and beauty of the Great Lakes, 
a monument to Nature in one of her most 
wonderful aspects, and so broadly and viv- 
idly expressed as to appeal to the imagina- 
