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Show DO NX PIATT ON VINNIE REAM'S Ll.MOL.V. The face resembles a livid mask taken from dead features by means of plaster, and is totally devoid of expression. ex-pression. This statue tells no storv whatc-ver. The head is threwn forward for-ward in a thoughtful, muing attitude, while the right hand is thrust forward with a mil of paper indicative of action. Be:ween the head and the hand there is no harmony whatever, fhe awkward, grotesque appearance ol Mr. Lincoln's figure in ihe beastly, every-day wear of ordinary life, is sought to be relieved by the folds ol a cloak that is stuck to the back in the most surprising manner, indie.itiiig that the uigain'y, awkward suljYc; had been studying a po?e, and hied his drapery precisely to suit ihe artist. Between the cloak and the figure there is hi liitlc- ftriminnv US K, llco..n ll.o head an 1 the hand, while the legs eunie in on their base, and have, like ev. ry other part, a story of their own. Nine out ot' ten fit' the ordin iry stone-cutters of the country would produce as good a work as this of ihe pretty little girl who f'u I an heir to Carpenter's Congressional inspiration. How long, 0 Lord, lioiv long, is the great National Nation-al Capital to be cursed with these crude abominations of ignorance ? The true arti-t, hy and sensitive, works unknown in his or her poor home, through lie-art -breaking obstacles up to fame, while this- rough lawmakers law-makers listen to ple iding beggars for he public money, that our eyes may be shocked ami the nation disgraced. Where is the image breaker and the destroyer of spoiled canvas, and whePe is our Providenoe 'who keeps us at nation?' |
