The Haig Statue On Tuesday Mr. Lansbury, First Commissioner of
Works, stated that he proposed shortly to hold a meeting to dismiss the Haig Statue. The Times says that he had intended to wait for the return of Lord D'Abernon; the chairman of the assessors, but evidently that would mean too long a delay as Lord D'Abernon is not expected home from the Argentine till October. Lady Haig will doubt- less be represented at the meeting, and it is suggested that her representative might be Sir Herbert Lawrence, who was Lord Haig's Chief of Staff in 1918. We can only hope that the claims of propriety, sentiment, and art will, somehow, all be satisfied. Our own feeling is that statues of famous men which are set up at the public expense should be, frankly, portraiture. Posterity will be chiefly interested in knowing what its famous men were like. Public statues are a kind of extension of the National Portrait Gallery.
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