Show STATUE OF DOCTOR JOHNSON Unveiled at Night and Said to Bethe Be the thc Worst In a City of Bad Statues London Postponed Postponed on account account of of at atthe the death of at the late King 1 the ceremony cere mony many of unveiling a statue of Dr Johnson In the precincts of at St. St Clement Clement Clem Clem- ent Danes church hurch was performed the tho theother theother other night with thing nothing of the parade and display customary on such occa stone Recently the Rev Rov J. J J. J II H. S. S Pennington Pen Pen- rector of St. St Clement D Danes mes where Johnson had his 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 r q i it t xa Statue of Dr Johnson Pennington was lying in state In his hii church the statue was unveiled d at al night by the donor and sculptor Percy Fitzgerald Today the bronze Image of the worthy doctor may be bo seen looking down his beloved belove t Fleet street The strongly-marked strongly features and burly form from the tho full bottomed wig to the planted firmly-planted shoes have been faintly suggested by Mr Mr Fitzgerald with the air of at Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait and the bust by Boswell Doswell and Mrs Thrale have their place In the bas on the pedestal What Dr Johnson would have said about this statue of at him can be ImagIned Imagined imagined Imag Imag- ined by any anyone one who 1 r a seen it Aa As Asa ABa 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 of the sculptors sculptor's art Johnson was apt to disparage The labor consumed In painting he once said was not disproportionate disproportionate dis dis- dis proportionate to the result but a fellow fellow fel fel- fel low might hack half hair a year at a block of marble and only produce something that hardly resembled a man The value of statuary he argued depended depend depend- ed solely on Its difficulty On the other hand It might have pleased Johnson to know that posterity poster poster- ity would in a special way associate his name name with a place of at worship that he so regularly attended |