Show STATUE OF DOCTOR JOHNSON unveiled it at night and said to be the worst wont in a city of bid bad statues statue london postponed on account of tho the death of the late king the ceremony of unveiling a statue of dr johnson johncox in tho the precinct 11 of st clement danes church was performed the other night with nothing of the parade and display customary cua tomary on such occasions recently the rov rev J J 11 S pennington ning ton rector of st clement danes where johnson had his pow pew and who devoted the green plot behind the apse of the church as a site for the statue died suddenly while the rev mr bir Z e statue of or dr johnson Joh naon pennington was waa lying in state in his church tho the statue was unveiled at night by the do norand sculptor percy fitzgerald today the bronze image of the worthy doctor may be seen looking down hla his beloved pleat fleet street the strongly marked features and burly form from the full bottomed wig to the firmly planted shoes have been faintly suggested by mr air fitz fitzgerald gerald with the air of sir joshua Reynold ss portrait and the bust by Nol Nolle lekens kons boswell and mrs thrale have acir place in the baa on the pedestal what dr johnson would have said about this statue of him can be imagined by any one who f h q seen it As a work of art the statue Is an atrocity and it seems most appropriate that it should have been unveiled at night furthermore even the best examples ot of the sculptors art johnson was apt to disparage the labor consumed in painting lie ho once said was not disproportionate to the result but a fellow might hack half a year at a block of marble and only produce something that hardly resembled a man the value of statuary he argued depended solely on its difficulty on the other hand band it might have pleased johnson to know that posterity would in a special way associate his name with a place of worship that he be so regularly attended |