Park and cemetery. 
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an abomination to an eye who is accustomed to the 
simple grandeur of an American cemetery. 
On the right of the picture are two Egyptian 
monuments. A life-size statue of an Egyptian 
woman stretching her arms on the great stone which 
towers above, is the picture of immortality- — which 
guards the door of the tomb. 
Next to it is a tomb at the head of which is an 
obelisk. There is not so much marble used as you 
would imagine for monuments and tombs, the 
French prefer a gray building stone. 
The first monument on the right, somewhat hid- 
den by trees is where Paul Baudry is buried. Paul 
Baudry was a painter whose reputation principally 
lies in having done the frescoes of the Grand Opera. 
He was ten years doing them. They are consid- 
ered fine, but they do not compare with the ancient 
frescoes of Italy. The monument is composed of 
stone and bronze, a favorite modern combination. 
Eife-size flying glory is in the act of putting the 
crown of immortality on the bust of the artist which 
stands on a pedestal. The statue of his widow 
stands, weeps and mourns. This is all bronze, 
while the foundation of the monument is of 
stone. 
Just above the second plot of grass, on an ele- 
vation, in the center of the avenue stands Bartho- 
lomc’s monument to Death. It is done in white 
marble and all the figures are life-size. It is most 
effective. It took three years to erect this monu- 
ment in Pere Lachaise, but it is the greatest monu- 
ment erected to the dead in the world, and the 
Biblical conception with the resurrection repre- 
sented above is most impressive. — E. Br 
H. W. S. CLEVELAND. 
The death of Mr. H. W. S. Cleveland, which 
occurred at Hinsdale, 111 ., on Dec. 6, drops from 
the scene of earthly labor a worker whose efforts 
will long survive him to give pleasure and comfort 
to generations to come. He attained to the front 
rank of his chosen profession, that of landscape 
gardening, and he has left the impress of his genius 
on more than one important section of this coun- 
try. Moreover, he was a man that endea; ed him- 
self to his fellow man and drew to himself not only 
respect but a warm regard for his personality and 
a sincere appreciation of his many remarkable 
(jualities. 
Horace William Shaler Cleveland was born in 
Lancaster, Mass., in 1814 and was descended from 
two of the oldest families in the east, the Cleve- 
lands and the Higginsons. His father. Captain 
Richard Cleveland, was one of the most daring and 
successful of the early American navigators and 
one of the men who took an important part in John 
Jacob Astor’s attempt to establish a great shipping 
point at Astoria, Oregon, in the early years of the 
nineteenth century. Mr. Cleveland was educated 
at Lancaster, receiving there his first instruction 
in landscape gardening, and he began practising 
his profession at Salem, Mass., in partnership with 
Robert Morris Copeland. For ten years he re- 
sided at Danvers, Mass., and subsequently at 
Tarrytown, N. Y., whence he repaired to Prospect 
Park, Brooklyn, where he was associated with 
Frederick Law Olmsted. In March, 1869, he re- 
moved to Chicago, and in partnership with Mr. 
W'm. M. R. French, now director of the Art Insti- 
tute, Chicago, he continued the practice of his 
profession. From first to last this practice extend- 
ed over many parts of the country. He took an 
important part in the designing and development 
of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Rogers Williams 
Park, Providence, R. I., and Jekyl Island, off the 
coast of North Carolina. He was intimately con- 
nected with the laying out of the parks of Minnea- 
polis, St. Paul and Duluth; Washington Park and 
Drexel Boulevard, Chicago; Omaha, Neb.; Brook- 
side, Indianapolis; the Capitol grounds at Topeka, 
Kans., and Madison, Wis.; Sleepy Hollow ceme- 
tery, Concord, Mass., and many other places of 
note. 
Mr. Cleveland’s great ability and good taste 
was also displayed in his writings, in which he 
possessed a simple but forcible style, which has 
been not inaptly compared with that of Daniel 
Defoe. He published a number of works. He 
was for many years corresponding secretary of the 
New Jersey Horticultural Society and an honorary 
member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 
and the American Park and Out door Art Asso- 
ciation, besides being associated with many such 
organizations. 
He was one of the foremost men of his profes- 
sion in the country, and his works live after him. 
I'or many years he was one of the well-known 
figures in Chicago, quiet and unostentatious though 
he was. His death, after several years of failing 
strength and health, occurred at the home of his 
son in Hinsdale, 111 ., on December 6 last and he 
was buried in Lakewood cemetery, Minneapolis, 
Minn. , on Dec. 10. 
It may truly be said in the case of this land- 
scape gardener, and in the true sense of this oft- 
mistaken term, that his works live after him. This 
great and prosperous country owes a large debt of 
gratitude to the comparatively few pioneers in the 
profession, who, by their genius and sturdy per- 
sistence, have left such an example and such an 
inheritance, and among these must be included H. 
W. S. Cleveland. 
