Alex. Stirling Calder 
the plan for a garden fountain. It is a play¬ 
ful conceit of a tiny faun seated astride a 
large globe and wrestling with a pair of water 
snakes that twine their coils around his trunk 
and legs. From the snakes’ mouths gush 
jets of water, while slow streams trickle from 
the broad lips of the two or three grotesque 
heads of fish that break the smooth surface 
of the globe. The figures are to be of 
bronze and the ball of colored marble, of 
which the base will be sunk below the level 
of the pool and thinly screened with rushes 
and sedge-grass. It is an article of Mr. 
Calder’s faith that in this sort of thing the 
sentiment must be primarily playful, lively, 
fantastic. Indeed, I should feel that I did 
him a gross injustice if I suspected him for 
a moment of being capable of turning loose, 
even in our wildest gardens, any of these 
stone and metal monsters of the deep and 
jungle that frequent our pleasure grounds. 
In an entirely different style is a drinking 
fountain Mr. Calder designed for the class of 
1892 of the University of Pennsylvania. 
It has recently been set up on a granite 
base in the passageway between an inner 
SKETCH MODEL FOR THE STATUE OF 
MATTHIAS W. BALDWIN 
figure is the “ Child Playing.” Here you 
intrude if you say a word. The little girl 
has found a turtle, and, seated on the ground, 
crouches over it while her two hands examine 
its heavy shell. The total absorption, the 
unconsciousness, the ungracefulness of the 
attitude give it a serious tone not quite so 
winning as the irrepressible good humor of 
the boy brother with the ball, but the inci¬ 
dent is no less real and lifelike, and is cer¬ 
tainly more difficult to describe in clay. 
“ The Mother and Baby,” which I also saw 
in the rough in Mr. Calder’s studio, properly 
belongs to the same general category of sub¬ 
jects, though in this case the sculptor has to 
contend with the inevitable modern dress, 
from which he escapes in his child figures. 
But there is more fun, as Mr. Calder 
puts it, in doing things that are matters of 
fancy than in anything else. Thus in his 
moments of recreation, to call them so, he is 
constantly jotting down notes of ideas that 
pass through his head. One of these rough 
sketches, which he expects soon to execute, is 
MODEL FOR A BRONZE HANGING CUP 
Class of i 8()2 Fountain 
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