The statueto Mr. Parnell executed by the late Mr. St.
Gaudens, the American sculptor, and erected at the north end of Sackville Street, Dublin, opposite the Rotunda, was unveiled by Mr. John Redmond on Sunday in the presence of a great assembly. Mr. Redmond, who was accompanied by Mr. Richard Croker, the ex-Tammany Boss, asked what moment in all the twenty years since Parnell's death was more fitting for the Irish race to assemble in gratitude and homage before this memorial than the present fateful moment of their history ? The national cause was just back at the stage to which Parnell had brought it at the zenith of his power, backed by Mr. Gladstone with the democracy of Great Britain behind him, when but for the bolt from the blue they would have had an Irish Parlia- ment in Dublin within twenty-four months. Mr. Redmond repudiated the notion that Parnell was cold and unsympathetic. As one that knew him intimately, he declared that he was a man of heart, and not only that, but his was one of the tenderest, gentlest, and most sensitive of hearts.
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