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Show The Artist In the Cemetery. At tho prcnont moment there is taking tak-ing placo in Germany an exposition which has come Into existence mainly to promote improvement in the art of mortuary sculpture, held under tho auspices au-spices of the Wiesbaden Society of Arts. It is, with much justice, held that tho statuary and sculpturo of the graveyard should keep pace with tho Erogress which is shown in other ranches of tho sculptor's craft. Our grandfathers showed much moro fertility fertil-ity in invention and inuch more resourcefulness re-sourcefulness in execution in their memorial me-morial monuments. The exemplars which they left for posterity to gaze upon arc still copied with tedious fidelity fidel-ity by their grandsons, and up till 1880 no new ideas can bo said to nave boen genorally adopted. To call tho generally gen-erally prevailing stylo of today ono barren of ideas and without soulful-ncss soulful-ncss is to describe it with leniency. Tho Craftsman. |