Show HEINES HEINE 18 PLACE IN AMERICA A body of american admirers of helde heine the germio poet have bad strange series of rebuffs in their endeavor to present to an american city a copy of a famous statue ot of the post poet by a german sculptor new york was brat offered the statue for a place in central park or one of atthe the city squares but declined it for the ostensible reason thai it was not artistic chicago with ideas of art exclusively her own did thes thessie sod and perhaps other equally critical centers of taste rod and excellence cel lence have done likewise after the strange spectacle of a corps corp of donors vainly passing their gift around the countr yit has at last found acceptance by baltimore the monumental city and will add one more to the points of interest in that rare old maryland metropolis the objection to the heine statue on OD the score of inartistic design was never more than a pretense tor for monuments with half its merit are given prominent locations and hold held in high favor in both now new york and chicago the true objection was to the man hini himself gelt religious sentiment was against it for christianity was not iia much uch more real than voltaire Volt alree lo to 0 o whom statues if erected are bathed in apologies there was also another objection and this is one ol of nationality for heine was destitute of patriotic feel tog oboes log ing paris for h his to home receiving a pen alon from the french government and ana frequently lampooning and insulting hie bia fatherland tn in bla big tuneful mures sat irea the german public abroad and in america therefore have no 06 great love for him and the dislike extended to others also for on the same principle that hat all the abe world loves love a lover 12 it to 1 equally true that all the world hates bates a traitor heine was nevertheless a consummate master of verse and his poetical fame to is ever on the increase jevery every translation of hie bis works only serves to show more clearly the untranslatable beauties of the original his position io in the world of literature is in unique and the recent difficulty in ID finding a city willing to give place to his hie statue has at least the merit of bringing forth too seams and side lights of his char actor |