House & Garden 
THE MONUMENT TO GRILLPARZER IN THE VOLKSGARTEN AT VIENNA 
The Statue executed by Zumbuseh , the Reliefs by JVcyer 
It would be equally ridiculous to place the 
monument ot a minor poet like Whittier 
in a large square where the people meet— 
now in friendly chat and now in angry riot. 
Such a monument should be placed in a 
small square or park if for no other reason 
than that a small square or nook in a park 
is conducive to meditation—a large square 
to agitation. 
Of course, in the case of so overshadow¬ 
ing a great man as Emerson, you ought to 
give him a great monument in a great square, 
but still always away from the turmoil of 
your business centers and market-places— 
in a quiet spot conducive to reflection. For 
there should always be harmony between 
the character of the place and the char¬ 
acter of the statue. It would be mani¬ 
festly absurd to place a dancing Venus 
in front of your Trinity Church, no 
matter how fine it might be as a work of 
art and proper in a museum. Parks are 
the proper places for the placing of ideal 
statuary of which we, in this country, are 
ridiculously poor. Ideal statuary should 
never be placed in a city square, except 
it be an accessory of a fountain or monu¬ 
ment. Nothing is more charming than 
the parks of Flu rope where one wanders 
about and suddenly, in a nook or junc¬ 
tion of two paths, finds a beautiful ideal 
statue, group or fountain. Large portrait 
monuments should never be placed in 
parks. Small monuments and busts are 
permissible in parks because they do not 
overshadow the surroundings where they 
are placed. 
Last, but not least, comes the proper 
keeping of open-air statuary. Nothing 
is more sad than the run-down condition 
of monuments in Spain, especially in 
Madrid. They show that the people are 
either in great poverty or in a state of 
lamentable moral apathy. A monument 
