, 1872-11-06

baltimore Washington, McDonough.
Washington. D. C.-Winfeld Scott, by Iaune
Thompson Roger Sherman and Jonathan
Trumbull, BY Ives General Greene, BY Brown
Vinnie Ream and Fiannery; Greenhoughs
Washington and Columbus stones Hamilton
and Hancock Powera' Jefferson aud Franklin
3 green Jefferson in the Wbito House grounds !;
General Rawlins ordered, aud Faa1agut appro~
priated for.
Louisville, Ky.-Honry Clay.
There are revolutionary monuments at Btuker
Fill, Baltimore, Washington, and Groton ; aud
a dozen or acore Of shafts, obeiisks, ETC., on
battie-ields. Monuments to the second War
With England are at Nashville, Annapolis, aud
Baltimore. Rebellion monuments stand at Rox-
bury, Providence (ordered). Detroit, Springfield,
III, Glen's Fall, Gettysburg, Antietau1 (order-
ed, and many other places
i Mexican war-monument is in New York city
General WORTHY
COST AND TASTE OF PUBLIC ART.
The cost of the public statuary Of the United
State3 has been nearly one million and half Of
dollars. Randolph Rogers alone has received
above 9200 900, and it is stated that lie has made
1o5 copies Of meaningless statue Of fictitious
RRsrsonsge R in mediocre @ e., novel, "Nyd1a;.
ally call it the Blind Girl Of Pompey-L
ferocious accent on the l. Some art-patron,
however, meaning to be literally accurate, let Oh
the double-ha -harreIlad and climb terraces in pro-
nounciation, as follows: Pompey-eya-oye
How can she be blind with so many eyes?
It is to ba doubted whether va have produced,
in all the art Of tue late var, more than one
good figure aud that probably is Wards Soldier
Of the Seventh Regiment. For an extraordinary
performance in this direction, the Rogers mouu-
nent at Detroit may be instan:ed It is donai-
mated by . figure called s:AIichigau,' in which
there is an attempt to represent tie lumber
resources Of the State, IN association With the
woodland garb Of this truly aroused WOMEN.
She appears with q short drawn sword and
shield, and that feryid countenance which might
make it seem that she was beating dinner-
train at a meal station on the :1chiSau Central
Railroad The boys ,eal! it 1.-THE Infatuated
she-Blday; Or, The .B6sd Eagles Revenge"
TO. WARD.
We have three good scu1ptors for public work
in Ward, Brown, and Launt Thompson. Tia
and he ls true artist, in the old matter-of-fact
sense Of the armorer and tho sculptor in one
A graceful mind, and reflection and chearfu1-
mesa always near st hand, work out the less
and the larger purposes u Ward He
Ohio 3 reddish-bea-ded, ekiz1n:shing, boyish
man. whom old Michel Angelo might have loved
as an apprentice. He is now in Europe wishing
to see aome antique work to give him confidence
in finishing the Putnam statue. During the
war, he was employed to design presentation
sword-handles and rich pistolhits for the Ames
Company,-a kind Of work which has rich, old
fendal smack ebout it, aud attests versatility.
He is q superb mcdeler of reliefs, groups. and
vases and his portrait-busts are serene, clean
mems faces, with none of Powers hower-gar-
dening about the rims Of them. He has never
obtained, and I think never solicited, any Ma
tionai work, being sturdi1y, steadily engaged.
and no courtieT; but, IA the ab1est man IN
sculpture of Q public character that we hare had,
it il merely a. reflection upon politics md gov
ernment that there is nothing Of his handicraft
st Washington,
He has produced & great work IN each Of the
types Of man upon our continent: the Ind-sn
hunter. the Freedman, and Shakespeare There
ia no statue in Washington City Of tie e1prea-
si7eness OF his statuo Of Commodore Perry at
Newport; and we have no such quaintly elegant
ton Public Garden, Of the first application Of
Ether. The Shakespeare in Centras Park is the
best testimonial plastic art has yet made to the
poet. His group foc ife-insurance company
in New York is known to al the country ~ the
manifold reproductions Of it in advertising prints
This should he the man to make for St. Louis CT
Chicago statue Of LaSalle,
THE ESGL1sHNASs AMERICAN
Mr. Story has been praised b. the loud Boston
yawp, greatly assisted By the Browning school in
London. Els mind and studies, toweyer, take
direction Of their OWL, aud not in the line
questioned, whether the Boston and the British
yawp put together make criterion il sculpture,
aud whether the Americans hare not q clearer
appreciation Of human grace and expression
than nation that is without one cosmopolitan
name III this department of art. London statn-
ary is source Of neger-ending amusement to
Punch and the reviews. There is one statue,
notably about a century and half old, in Soho
Square. the subject Of which is hope}essly ur~
known, and is supposed to be Charles /, Jamea
l., and the Duke Of Monmouth, at the same
time John Bacon offered to s' build all the Par
lamentary monuments at 8 certain percentage
below the Parliamentary price; and it has
hardly yet got to be joke in England. Ez-
ceptiug in the art Of pictorial design and IN the
school Of Water-coloT painting, the English sle
whole life, and cost him his wife in the bargain,
Modern English architecture, as well, Is
Of a morose, Russian heaviness, seeking to hide
its interesting quality Ia it's vest extent
and We have done wisely in this country to adopt
public figures for Boston, and one OF them, Ed
ward Everett, is throwing his shoulder out Of
joint as badly IS the rest.
POINTS OF Art.
The statue Of Winfield Scott, By H. z. Brown.
Irving Wards preceptor,-is notable for ita
superb modelling: pose, and alert expression Of
the horse. This will be fine Ornament to
Washington City, and. Of course, it is to be put
in place full Of trees, where it must be dis
covered. The statue Of Grant has been given to
one Baiilie, a Phiiadelphian, to do.
If it we're possible to get together tor Chicago
plaster casts of the public statuary OF the coun-
try, that alone would make very Interesting
and large collection Mrs. Crawford presented
to the Central Park q full set OF the casts OF her
husbands designs, and they constitute one Of
the most attractive features Of that city.
ART ITEMS.
The first man who erer modelled with anY
popularity in America Was John Dixey, of Dub
lin, who carved the figures of Justice on tho
New York City Hall. William Ruah, st an early
day, cut Washington for Independence Hall,
Philadelphia and some figures for churches.
During Mon1oes Administration. one John
Frazee made several busts; one OF which, John
Jay, was purchased by Congress for the Supreme
Court chamber.
Considerable statuary has been lost BY FIRE,
aud flood and moving accident. Caaoya's WASH
ington persisted in the fire at Raleigh Brown
lost By reputation, and subsequent fire, 4 ,
group Of thirteen figures for the South Carolina
State House by slipwregk, joel Hart lost his
original statue Of Clay, Royars his John Adams,
and Powers hia Calhoun. GA1H.
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POLITICAL.
The full vote Of South Carolina, Oct. 16, Tor
Governor, Is announced, aud we compare the