At intervals along the parapets of the bridge should stand
repro sentatives of our fighting forces—the bomb-thrower, the machine- At intervals along the parapets of the bridge should stand repro sentatives of our fighting forces—the bomb-thrower, the machine-
gun man, the minesweeper, the submarine sailor, the infantly man, the cavalryman, the gunner, the sapper, the stretcher-bearer, the bluejacket, and the marine. At the two approaches to the bridge —i.e., where the bridge leaves the shore—should stand triumphal arches whioh should, if possible, have the dignity and monumental splendour of the Arch of -Constantine—one dedicated to the Navy, the other to the Army.. On the top of one should be a representa- tion, which need not fear to be realistic, of a naval gun in action, and on the other a piece of field artillery also in action. A figure of an infantry soldier might stand sentinel over the military arch and of a bluejacket over the naval arch. We are quite prepared to hear these suggestions called crude, literary, non-artistic, and so forth, and possibly they deserve ail these epithets. We should, however, prefer to say that it would take an artistic genius to harmonize and co-ordinate our proposals and make of them an organic, and so living and artistic, whole.
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