phasis or gesture. I remember how many fine French statues have been spoiled by the hint of the theatre introduced, by some exaggeration in the expression of the face or by arbitrary arrangement of the limbs; and I rejoice anew in the determination with which Saint-Gaudens turned his back upon all meretricious expedients and gave to this statue the bare majesty of a passage from Homer. It is interesting to note that this landmark in American sculpture, on its imaginative side, was mod elled by an artist who never wreaked himself to any extent on allegorical and symbolical composition. The several angelic figures he produced are, when all is said, merely angelic. Their physiognomies are furrowed by no lines of complex thought. But the seated divinity in the cemetery at Washington touches the mind at many points, and is remembered with a sense of profundity and supernatural wonder.

It is Saint-Gaudens's one memorable effort in the

sphere of the loftiest abstraction. His other greatest triumphs were won in the field of portraiture, working in the round and on the scale of a public monument. Twice his subject met him halfway in respect to picturesqueness: when he made the Chapin monument at Springfield, known as "The Puritan," and when, with the assistance of Miss Lawrence, he erected a statue of

DEACON CHAPIN

Modelled in New York in the late eighties. It is not in tended as a portrait, but as an ideal embodiment of the traits of "The Puritan," the title by which it is generally known. It stands in Springfield, Mass.