Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-01-31
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

- I ALL started when Lewis G%annett,
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literary critic of the New York
~ Herald Tribune, In reviewing a re-
cent book. "The Private Life of
I Sherlock Holiness" said "When
fG213 London gets around to honoring
Sherlock, Hannibal, Mo-, the home
- town of Huck Finn and his statue,
will lose its proud claim to being
the home of the only statue ever erected to a
character of fiction in the world"
Whereupon Carolyn Marx, literary critic of the
New York World Telegram, reprinted Mr.. Gan
nett's statement and added: How about Tramp
TONS Peter Pan statue In Kensington Gardens?
AND the statue of Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit
unveiled only last month In Wales?"
But that was only a starter, for, as Mr.. Can
nett confessed In his column q day or two later:
Let Hannibal, Mo-, boast; a flood of CORE
spondents deny Its claim to the only statue of n
hctional character. Most of them recall only
Peter Pan in London's Kensington Gardens:
h. / X. OF the department of romance languages
at Columbia says there Is a statue of D'Artagnan
In Auch, France; Carolyn Marx In the World
Telegram mentions the Wonderland White Rab-
bit recently unveiled In Wales; and Christopher
Morley thinks he recalls a Little Nell in Phila-
delphia and Sir Walter Scotts 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 Hannibals Huck Finn and Tom
Sawyer. Are there more?'
There were more, indeed Several days later.
the Herald Tribune reviewer printed this:
Late additions to the lists of literary statues:
Hans Christian Anderson's Little Mermaid.
near the Royal Yacht club In Copenhagen.
Paul and Virginia in the Jardln des Plantes,
Paris.
Longfellow's Evangeline in Grand Pre-, Nova
Scotia.
Mistral's Mlrellle In Les Saintes MarIes in
Provence.
Puss in Boots in the Tuilerles, Paris.
The Roaring Camp group on the Bret Harte
statue in San Francisco.
Velleda, voluptuous Breton druidess from Cha
teaubriand's lies Martyrs" near Boulevard
Standardized Gate of the Luxembourg Gardens,
Paris.
Which, with: n
Peter Pan and Rlma In London '
The White Rabbit In Wales
Little Nell and Tam o. Shanter in Philadelphia s
Misunderstanding In Cooperstown 9
The Circuit Rider In Salem, Ore.
The Barefoot Boy In Ashburnham y
make more than a dozen rivals to Hannibal, b
Mos Huck and Tom, "the only monument In
the world to a fctional character" !"
And even that list might be extended. Over In p
Spain, luuT years ago LHpre was unveiled :"
In the Plaza de Espana near the royal palace a Y
huge memorial consisting Of two monuments. a
of these monuments, standing go feet high,
was a life-size bronze group of Don Qufxote on ir
a horse and his man, Sancho Panza, on q donkey. p
Growing the main column was the figure of Ger lie
vantes, the man who gave to literature the tC
fighter Of windmills, and at the base OF In
the monument was an allegorical representation. g
the "Fount of the Castillian Tongue" Although Ell
The memorial was primarily to honor the genius la
Of Cervantes, at the same time 1t preserves W
inperishably those two famous fictitious charac- hi
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. w
But to return to Amerlca-a little investigation ma
will reveal the fact that the list Of statues and ~
to fictitious characters is not limited m0
o the compilation Of the New York columnist. er
1t remembered that the genius Of Daniel W
chester French, the dean of American s%culptors, q
lot only produced, among others of his great no
ieces of work, q bust Of Washington Irving, but IA
e also made a full figure statue of the famous
haracter which Irving created-Rip Van let
vlnkle. Ne
And Philippe Hebert's statue Of Evangeline IA
I Grand Pre- Is not the only one which recalls no
ongfellow's immortal heroine. Hebert's statue ga
-as erected more than a decade aOo hut n was by
nlv about three wears ago tbat thero we nm hal
eiled at st. Martinville, La, another statue of D
ne MAID OF drand IRE. This was done In the n
resence OF several thousand Louisiana Acadians A,
nd of two hundred Acadians from Moncton. W
ontreal and Grand Pre-, who made a pilgrimage :
the Bayou state for the ceremonies connected a,
It'll the dedication of the statue which stands :
Ter the grave of Emmeline Labiche, who was I
e original Of Evangeline. ma
Go out to Denver, Colo, and visit Washington Ian
ark. There In the center of a pool is a fountain ",
you can see immortalized In stone Eugene a,
eld's "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" Or 20 to :
ncoln park In Chicago and look upon them as s
are portrayed on the Field memorial there. beh
AS for the monument to Huckleberry Finn and the
I'm Sawyer which gives Hannibal, Mo-. the p
Eht to make Its proud claim" 1t was made by cret
ederick G. Hubbard, q Chicago sculptor, and som