. Studio international . AFRICA (NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE) BY DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH Daniel Cliester French. EUROPE (NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE) BY DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH figure of the young girl,advancing in the path ofstudy and guided by anolder woman, the almamater of her college, whopoints to her the way. Thiswork, as well as the Mourn-ing Victory, are in marble ;the figure of Oglethorpe inbronze with a marble pedi-ment ; and bronze, too, isthe Field statue, a figure ofMemory reposing on a seatof deep red granite, re-sembling porphyry. Mr. French tells me thathe is now working, in col-laborationwi
. Studio international . AFRICA (NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE) BY DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH Daniel Cliester French. EUROPE (NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE) BY DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH figure of the young girl,advancing in the path ofstudy and guided by anolder woman, the almamater of her college, whopoints to her the way. Thiswork, as well as the Mourn-ing Victory, are in marble ;the figure of Oglethorpe inbronze with a marble pedi-ment ; and bronze, too, isthe Field statue, a figure ofMemory reposing on a seatof deep red granite, re-sembling porphyry. Mr. French tells me thathe is now working, in col-laborationwith Mr. Packer,upon an equestrian statueof General William , to be erected atMilford, Mass.; and upona statue of Emerson forthe Public Library atConcord. ?You will infer from their lives in the Civil War, bytheir surviving brother, whowas himself a soldier in thewar. Nowhere, we feel here, doesmodern sculpture stand uponhigher ground than in themonuments of Death; andwhen I recently had occasionto write of the great modernsculptor of Death, LeonardoBistolfi, as great in this, hisown field of
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