THE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
SIR,—It was good to see Mr. Harold Nicolson's mild reproof in this week's Spectator. When will the authorities realise that the idea so beloved by the Victorians of a figure (standing and photographic for choice) placed on a pedestal and dumped in street or garden may be a memorial, but is not a monument—an idea so very often proposed and as often a failure? Surely, for success, the sculpture and the garden must be designed as one expression, entirely dependent on composition and pattern and the harmonies and contrasts inherent in the varying materials employed in the conception. The late President deserves a monument, not just one more memorial statue. Finally, surely in Moses Michael- angelo has proved the possibilities in the seated figure.—Yours faithfully,
GEORGE DRYSDALE.
College of Arts and Crafts, Margaret Street, Birmingham, 3.
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