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Show Plea for Cleaner Statues. Country cousins, visiting in London, demand to know what is wrong with London monuments, or many of them. Well they may, for quite a number of our bronze effigies are, at this moment, mo-ment, in a most unsightly condition as a result of what is said to be "cleaning." The Gladstone figure in the Strand, the Shaftesbury memorial fountain at Picadilly Circus, and many another, are coated in verdigris, the dried swillings of some noxious fluid which has run down onto the stone below and made it green also though not with envy, one would think. The whole produces a most bilious and sickening sight. Why cannot these bigger bronzes be kept as clean and "bronzy" as the two Herculean athletes ath-letes in the Embankment Gardens the best and best-kept figures in London? Lon-don? London Chronicle. |