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Show Literary 5 tallies Tx and Memorials ,r Y K & iss!. n s -faiN s si V.- s ' 'ws . x . s- s4C : MC jS - y r pVn LfcH cV ov V 1 I s- v-:V-n - ' IS r s Ai.f s . o V.V ''.tsj l - - . . " s wf r , u , - , rf'V ..V iv ;- " '. '.. i- ! ' ' I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ,-tjjs T ALL startej when Lewis Gaanett. c fV I literary critic of the ew York T ltfl herald Tribune, In reviewing a re- ' M II cent book- "The rriTate Llfe of Jfil Sherlock Holmes," said: "When London gets around to honoring LVJ Sherlock, HannihaL Mo., the home town of Huck Finn and his statue, will lose Its proud claim to being t!.e home of the only statue ever erected to a character of fiction In the world." Whereupon Carolyn Marx, literary critic of the JCew- York World-Telegram, reprinted Mr. Gan-nett's Gan-nett's statement and added: "How about Framp-ton's Framp-ton's Peter Pan statue In Kensington Gardens? And the statue of Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit nnvelled only last month In Wales?" But that was only a starter, for, as Mr. Gannett Gan-nett confessed In his column a day or two later: "Let Hannibal, Mo., boast; a flood of correspondents corre-spondents deny Its claim to the only statue of a fictional character. Most of them recall only Peter Pan In London's Kensington Gardens; B. I K. of the department of romance languages at Columbia says there is a statue of D'Artagnan In Auch, France; Carolyn Man In the World-Telegram World-Telegram mentions the Wonderland White Rabbit Rab-bit recently unveiled In Wales; and Christopher Morley thinks he recalls a Little Nell In Phi:a-delphla Phi:a-delphla and Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy somewhere some-where else. But, Chris, they don't count If they are In private homes; they must be public monuments monu-ments to match Hannibal's Hurk Finn and Tom Sawyer. . . . Are there more?" There were more. Indeed ! Several days later, the Herald Tribune reviewer printed this: Late additions to the lists of litprary statues: Hans Christian Anderson's Little Mermaid, near the Rnyal Yacht club In Copenhagen. Paul and Virginia in the Jardin des Planteg, Paris. Longfellow's Evangeline In Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. Mistral's Mlreille In Les Saintes Maries In Provence. Puss In Boots In the Tuileries. Paris. The Roaring Camp group on the Bret Harte statue In San Francisco. Yelleda, voluptuous Breton druidfss from Chateaubriand's Cha-teaubriand's "13 Martyrs," near Boulevard Saint-Michel Gate of the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris. Which, with: Peter Pan and Rima In London The White Rabbit In Wales Little Nell and Tarn o' Shanter In Philadelphia Leatherstockinz In Cooperstown The Circuit Rider In Salem, fire. The Barefoot Boy In Ashburnhatn make more than a dozen rivals to Ilnnnlhdl, Mo.'s Huck and Tom, "the only monument In the world to a fictional character." And even that list rni-lit be extended. Over In Madrid. Spain, four years ago there was unveiled In the Plaza de Kjpana rif.ir the royal pnlnre r huge memorial consisting of two monuments. One of tl.e.-e monuments, s'aii'lirig O) fef-t high, was a life-size bronz group of Ton Quixote on a horse and his man. S.mrho pnriza, on a donkey. Crowning the ninin column was the figure of Cervantes, Cer-vantes, the man who give to litorrifure thf famous fighter of windmills, and at the bae of the monument was an n!l'-gorir:il n-preiita!lon. the "Fount of the CnUiliinn Tonguf.'' Although the nvmorial was primarily to honor the genius of Cervantes, at the s:irne time it prom-rves lmperishftMy ttiof. two famous ntifiotis characters, charac-ters, I'on Quixote and S.'triWio pana. But to return to A ro'-rWa a littk' Investigation will reveal the fart that the li.-t of Ktatufs and memorials to fictitious characters is not limited to the compilation of the Nc-.v York columnist, lie It remembered that the genius of I'ank'l Chester French, the dean of Arnerlcnn sculptors, not only produced, among others of his great pieces of work, a bu't of Wa Ellington Irving, hut he also made a full figure statue of the famous character which Irving created Rip Van Winkle. And Phillipp" Ilehert's statue of Kvimgeliue at Grand Pre is not the only one which recalls Longfellow's Immortal heroine. Ifebcrt's statue was erected more than a decade ago, but It was only about three years ago that there was unveiled un-veiled nt St. Martlnville, I,n.t another statue of the Maid of Grand Pre. This was done In the presence of several thousand Iotjiqlana Aradlann and of two hundred Acadians from Moncton, Montreal and Grand Pre. who made a pilgrimage to (he P.ayou state for the ceremonies connected with the dedication tit the statue which stands over the grave of Finniellrie Lahiche, who was the original of livatigellne. Go out to 1'enver. f'olo,, and visit Washington park. 'I here In the center at n pool q n fountain where you carl see I In li'H t a I i zed In stone F,ugeie Field's "Wynkeri. F.lynken and Nod." fir go to 7, inc. In park In ('Imago and look upon thein as they are portrayed n the ( ield memorial Ihere. As for Hi" monument to 1 1 u I: let.err.y liftn and Tola f-'a'.'. yer v.hich gi-.es Hannibal, Mo., the ri::ht to toal;e its "proud Halm," It was made by Jrederbk :. Illbl.ard, a Chicago sculptor, and "x .v " - . f " v ' li u . n 1 (mdA ix' 1. The Lewn Carroll memorial at Lljndudno, Wales, which feature t the White R.ibbit of "Alice (n Wonderland." Bes-de It standi David Lloyd George, former British premier, who unveiled un-veiled the statue. 2. Statue of Evangeline, which stands In St. MartinviMe, La., over the grave of Emmelinf Labiche, the original of Longfellow's heroine. 3. The Capt.iin'i Well In Ametbury, Mass made famous by the ballad by John Greenleaf Whittier. 4. Memorial to Eve, erected In Fountain Inn, 8. C, by Robert Qulllen, noted newspaper psra-grapher psra-grapher and editor (vho stands beside It). 5. SUtue of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Saw. yer which stands in Hannibal, Mo., Mark Twain's boyhood home town. e Irf''iitpr1 to tfio r',y of J I :i n n i 1 ul hy Mr. nnd Mrn, (U-orjf A. M.ih.'in. It t:iriI nt t ho foot of f'ar-IiT hill wh'TP fnr-:;;i t her'''! Tm nrnl Ilnk ari-l Tom's ininiorml cir X. floti.-ly Ilkin to prjirfi.e of I ii)iinrt M II 7.1 1)2 in sfonc c!i;ir.'i :prM In li t ioti I ; : i t hicii rnnn'n j.rnct iff of fjol t 'io M ntn for :n l !il'.il n ml I-i;-ii'!:i ry I'lrnrc;;. Souk- of tli" cn-uftl .Mrn1 tor of juifi'-nl (Ircffp n nl IImiik" foil rnl t ln-lr InItlr.'itiofi in tin- jro'N iiihI to'!-!i wlnun thp (In-fki nrn) Itmiirirm hon- r-Ml. S , n M l;i rly. In iihkI-frn iihkI-frn !ny. rintnft in the l'.il.li' Imvc hc-ii trin hilf'l Into Miotic. Two of ti t J'nu'-t iM cm of work hy the i;rc)tt K r r -I i inli!or. I ; ' 1 ; n. iirr liU fictile of A'l.nn mipI .' ;iri'l In AimTlrn vie h;i c sih'Ii s'ii f hcs f: h W i 1 1 !:i m I I'-nry K' no JiMrt'ft Ili Kcr-. n. with hT iiti hcr lit tlio well. I 'own in I'ount ii i n Inn, S. ( '., I nn nminnl riicmori:il not n sinhic. lint n simple wliilo sliiTl orcc tc' to 1 1 if memory of Kvo tier :i ih;p Jtohcrt Quillen, iMlitor of tl:o I'ouiiI.'iIti Inn Trilnine. nml n fiimoim j,'irn:nilier. tlioiihf tfuit "Innidir-ient honor him Iteen iMi'l to the iiiotln-r of Iho lmmnn riiee." I Jo you rememher Unit IimILiO hy John -Ireen-Icf Whit t lor which to IIh of t f if n)i reckffl New MriL'Ifiixl n;illor who wim rnKt nw;iy" on the I'.imt Aruliliin roiit nml ns ho toile nTns Hip hot desert sJimlK. huncry nml thirsty. rurHfi tho fl;iy of his hlrlh nnI (lien. KinHenly overfomo hy n firior omotion. "jirnyerl im ho never before hnl pni yel"? I'ily me, fjor I Kr I die of thirst ; T;iko mo out of this bind nn nrst ; Arid If over I reiieh my home nrtiin Where oiirth him ppririirH nnd (lie nl,y bn r;iln, I will fill! n well for the pilfer by And Hoop sbnll suffer from thirst nn I. Then, do you remember, how the nhlpwroekod nmrlner rnnio briek Piifely nt In.'d to Uh homeland home-land nnd. When morning rumo ho rnlU-d for bin wpndo. ''I must pity my 1 1 el if to the I ,on1," bo pnld. So bo lolled dny Hfler dity out In Hie ynrd behind hi1 house unlll nt brd "the blrfd wulor, I ho wine or Cod." K'l-dn-d forth. I'erhnpq you Ibourht thnt lory wns Jud n rronlion of tho New I'jir.biml poofn. Hut It win flomethlh( more thnu Uiiil. AMbouirli WIiIHIit'i I'Ofin rmide Hie bvend of " I he Cniitaln'a WVIP ; fa:ii!Knr to nil Atnorii-nn.H, It Is leond thnt hftd very mihitnnti:tl bn-is of fart. ; n to A ine.-.!ni ry. M i., nnd m-p for yourself ! Tho ':)pra!ns WpII" thero nn It hns boon ro- I nlored by former St:ito Senator nnd Mr. Jmnos ' II. Wn iker of A nil"-bury mi l presented to the j Town Improvement ocirty. You r:m drink from '. Its purr wat'-rs, find Jn you do no you will bf : remin l-'d not only of tho hero of Whittier' bnl- j Ind but of nil the ndventnrom New Kriclnnd !io- men who oii'T carried tb.o Ameriran tlac to r! ! romprp of the g'.oho. Kor tho restored "'n p- I tnin Well" 'j n memorial to them. Tho hero of the ballad was Valentino I'-acIey, I a nntivp of Amesbtiry. who, nt th nc of oic'it- ! pen, went down to tho pen !n ships late In tho j I".!i;))teenth century mid tho story of his ndvon- tures ran bo fotrfld In nn old book, published In Salem In IT'.M - "Tho Journal of Hie Trnv.-li nnd Sufferiru of I 'anle I Sm-nd-TH. a !arlnor on I'.oari) the Shi Commerro of I'.nston, Sam'l John- j pon. Commander, Whirh wai C;mt Any Near ; a4 Morebct on the Con.: of Arabia. Julv Id. ! ' I r.i.rloy was n rarpeut'-r's male on Hip Com- ; ntereo w hen that ship pa!bd from tho N!o of I'raneo on January 'JT. K'.'J, bound for Madras There she eTrban-ed her I'ototi inavifr, Jtdm I.ea. Ii. for h lt!ioi!e I -lambT. Sautmd Jo!mi.n. nnd on April set sail for I'ombiiy ll.uvpver, tho new rnptain. "bein iMi!irina:nted with tho roat," pteored too far to Co we-.f nnd tin ship foundrred on Cape Mon-hot July ' The crew, "thirty four souU In number, twenty w hi !"(, t hi rt eon I a ea r sailor and one A f rlnin black," look to the and for three da mado their way nbnie the siiore. Then tln-v were driven nsliorn hy a r rn which drowned three of them. Starling the coat. tho 17 white men, tortured tor-tured with thirst, bunted everywhere for water, r.eromlnn -eiraled. they w;tn.ered about tn smnll parties nnd one by rno they Inid their weakened companions under btodwsnnd left them Ihere to die. On nnd on they plodded neroM the burnlnu pands and I'-arJey. thinUint: no doubt of the damp, fevr pwept low n of his rial ivlly, forced his parched throat to ultor tho promNo lo bis Cod that If over bo pit back to Hint town ho would die a well where Ml who pa 'cd mhrht drink Al licit tbp entliiHiivn fell In wllb n party of Arnb lenders, travellni; on camels (owned Muscat, who look Ihem alone On A niriit l'J. Pit of (hp si-vent eeti n rrl ved n t M use at w beeo most of litem took phlp for homo. Hul Valentino Ton-Icy Ton-Icy pvldenlly was In no such hurry. Still peeking ndventuro. bp shlpl"'! Aenbiau vessel nnd followed Ibo pea for three utoee years boforo fotnj; bmk to Ma s;a cbii'el I s. Two yours later lvit;ley Ur-pt his vow by dig chiK Ibo well and for years from lis cool depths bubbled Ibo precious wafer which ho bad craved no much on tho hot sands of Arabia. Hut nfler his death the well fell Into distrpair nnd Its waters wen drained nwny by cxcnvatlons for n deep pipe lino In 1!T.'. Hut Ibo ec-doiallon four yea rs a ::o of Ibo well nnd the erection of l lie memorial de-airned by I eonard (Ya'.ko, an I'm; li'dt pcii I pi or llvliy: In Mont on. has nuai anleed perpetuation of he story of Valentino Mauley, n real character In n ballad of n famous Amor lean poet. |