The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-02-01

ErhkEg1 London gets around to honoring
Sherlock, Hannibal. NO., the home
- town OF Huck Finn and his statue
VIII lose Its proud claim to being
me home OF the only statue ever erected to
character of fiction In the world.
Whereupon Carolyn Marx, literary critic of the
New York WorldTeegram, reprinted Mr. Can
hetts statement and added: How about Tramp
tons Peter Pan statue In KensIngfon Gardens7
And the statue of Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit
unveiled only last month In Wales7"
But that was only starter for as Mr.. Can
nett confessed In his column day or two later.
Let Hannibal. Mo-. boast; flood of corre-
spondents deny It's claim to the only statue Of a
nctional character. Most of them recall only
refer Fan In Londons Kensington Gardens.
y. l. i. OF the department of romance languages
at Columbia says there Is statue Of DArtagnan
IN Auch. France Carolyn Marx In the World
Telegram mentions the Wonderland White Rab-
Dit recently unveiled In Wales; and CHRISTOPHER
Morley thinks he recalls Little Nell In phlla-
delphia and Sir Walter SCOTS Rob Roy some
where else. But, Chris they don't count II they
are In private homes; they must be public monu
ments to match Hannibal's Huck Finn and Tom
Sawyer. =. Are there more7"
There were more indeedi Several days 1ater
the Herald Tribune reviewer printed ths
1850 AuatAioi1 " LIE lIsl5 Vi literary EIHIUeSs
Hans Christian Andersons Little Mermaid.
near the Royal Yacht club in Copenhagen.
Paul and Virginia In the Jardin des plantes.
Paris.
Longfellows Evangellne In Grand Pre- Nova
Scotia
Mlstral's Mireille In Les snlntes Mares In
Provence
Puss In Boots In the Tueres, Paris.
The Roaring Camp group on the Bret Harte
statue In San Francisco
Velleda, youptuous Breton druidess from Cha
teaubriands lies Martyrs" near Boulevard
Standardized Gate of the Luxembourg Gardens.
Paris.
Which, with:
Peter Pan and Rma In London
The White Rabbit In Wales
Little Nell and Tam o. Shanter In Philadelphia
Misunderstanding In Cooperstown
The Circuit Rider In Salem Ore
The Barefoot Boy In Ashburnham
make more than dozen rivals to Hannibal
Mos Iuck and Tom "the only monument In
the world to fctional character"
And even that list might be extended Over In
Madrid, Spain, four years ago there was unveiled
In the Plaza de Espana near the royal palace
huge memorial consisting of two monuments
one OF these monuments, standing 60 feet high
was lfe-size bronze group of Don Quixote on
horse and his man. Sancho panza. on a donkey
Growing the main column was the figure OF Ger
vantes, the man who gave to literature the
famous fighter Of windmIlls. and at the base OF
the monument was an allegorcal representation
the "Fount Of the CastlIan Tongue" Although
the memorial was primarily to honor the genius
of Cervantes, at the same time 1t preserves
imperishably those two famous fictitious charac
ters, Don Quixote and Sancho panza
Rut IN rcti1rn m AuprIra-a lttt1a t,ra,+tun4sau
will reveal the fact that the list of statues and
memorials to fictitious characters Is not limited
to the compilation of the New York columnst.
BE 1t remembered that the genius of Daniel
Chester French. the dean Of American scuptors
not only produced among others of his great
pieces OF work. bust OF Washington Irving, but
he also made full figure statue OF the famous
character which Irving created-Rip Van
Wrinkle
And Philippe Hebert's statue of Evangeline
at Grand Pre- Is not the only one which recalls
Longfellows immortal heroine Hebert's statue
was erected mose than decade ago. but 1t was
only about three years ago that there was I'M
yelled at ST. Martnve, La. another statue of
the Maid Of Grand Pre-. This was done In the
presence Of several thousand Louisiana Acadians
and Of two hundred Acadians from Moncton,
Montreal and Grand Pre- who made pilgrimage
to the Bayou state for the ceremonies connected
with the dedication Of the statue which stands
over the grave OF Emmellne Labiche, who was
the original OF Evangeline.
Go out to Denver, Colo, and visit Washington
park There In the center OF pool is fountain
where you see immortalIzed In stone Eugene
Fields "Wynken Blynken and Nod" Or 90 to
Lincoln park In Chicago and look upon them as
they are portrayed on the Field memorial there
AS for the monument to Huckleberry Finn and
Tom Sawyer which gives Hannibal, No.. the
right TO make Its proud claim" 1t was made by
Frederick G.. Hibbard Chicago sculptor, and