Show fiction portrayed in stone scattered throughout various countries of the globe sculptured figures of fictional characters that have become immortal through the genius of literary master comprise a small but select group of the worlds statuary art of the nine such statues scattered throughout the various countries of the globe philadelphia has two say the philadelphia public ledger they are the bronze group of dickens and little nell to in dark clark park forty third street and chester avenue and the sandstone figures of the characters in robert burns poem tarn tam oshanter OS hanter on the east river drive opposite boathouse row As the heroine of the old curiosity shop little nell has always had an appeal for both children and adult readers of charles dickens novels hundreds of school children pass the statue daily and it Is the mecca for dickens admirers on the annual celebration of his birthday hannibal mo mark marh twains kwains home has bronze figures of tom sawyer and huckleberry ckleberry Du finns finn s and ascoop at coop ers ors town N Y a statue of leather stocking and his ells dog surmounts the cooper monument the other sculptured members in this particular category are peter vans pan in london don quixote and sancho panza in madrid cartag nan in auch gascony george sands petite Fad fadette ettell in de gussets Mus sets heroine pinson in paris and Mi mireio relo poetical subject of frederic mistral at saintes maries de la mer on the gulf of lyons lyods |