To Commemorate Pavlova The scheme for a London memorial to
Pavlova has two distinct merits—first, that it will commemorate the great Russian dancer ; secondly, that it will enrich London with a really fine piece of work by the great Swedish sculptor, Carl Mules. There has been sonic criticism to the effect that British sculptors should design British memorials. Where the persons commem- orated are British, we are inelinedtci agree. But Pavlova, whose achievement is still a living memory for so many thousands of English people, • was herself a foreigner ; and the treasure of new imaginative beauty, which she bestowed on her adopted country, itself bore signal witness to the value of cosmopolitanism in art. In all the circumstances the plan is a singularly happy one, and is promoted by a representative committee. Dancing is, in respect of its medium, the most fugitive of the fine arts ; sculpture, the most permanent ; and both will gain if the one can preserve some of the fragrance of the other.
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