29 SEPTEMBER 1917, Page 3

The Washington correspondent of the Times stated in a message

published on Monday that much concern and indignation had been caused by the news that Mr. Barnarcre statue of Abraham Lincoln was actually east and ready to be shipped to England to be erected opposite the entrance to the House of Lords. He wrote of the statue as " this perversion of the sculptor's art," and said that it had been branded by Mr. R. T. Lincoln, the son of the great President, as " a monstrous figure, grotesque as a likeness and defamatory as an effigy." Further, he said that Mr. Choate at the time of his death was preparing a protest against what he conceived to be a desecration of the memory of Lincoln.