PARK AND CE/nCTHRY. 
LE REGRET. A CEMETERY MONUMENT RY MERCIE, PARIS. 
A French Memorial. 
It is more common in foreign cemeteries than in 
our own to find occasional examples of high sculp- 
tural art, executed by sculptors whose names are 
famous. Such an example is illustrated above and 
is a memorial to some of the brave sons of France 
who fell in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. 
The beautiful work needs neither description nor 
explanation. It speaks volumes and in every grace- 
ful line may be seen the hand of a master, model- 
ing a work in which he was in full sympathy. “Le 
Regret,” translated into “Grief,” is by the celebrat- 
ed French sculptor, Mercie, by whom many well 
known works now adorning public places, have 
been executed. It is well that we should be ena- 
bled to study such memorials, ‘for the sake of the 
new suggestions the offer and they instructive ideas 
which always cluster about works of the masters. 
