MIS-SITING MONUMENTS
Six,—Many people will agree with " Janus " that a Roosevelt statue in London is next door to a necessity, and we are not without sculptors fitted for the job. The only thing which raises anxiety is the possibility of bad mis-siting, of which there are several glaring examples at the present day. In each of the cases which I have in mind the sculptor's scheme has either been neglected altogether or his work has been tinkered with.- -Rodin's "Burghers of Calais; was not designed for an equestrian base; Lincoln, in the original, which is in America, is surrounded with steps leading up to him as if he were addressing the House ; at West- rninster he is talking to his boots. Washington was intended by his sculptor to stand in a niche and not in the open ; and so on. There have actually been cases where a,sculptor has designed for stone and has found his work transmuted into bronze, and vice versa, so that everything is thrown out of scale. The sculptor who is given•the commission for the Roosevelt memorial must be told the site, and the original instructions .ntust be stuck to.—Your obedient servant, G. B. J. ATHOE, Secretary.
Incorporated Association of Architects and. Surveyors,
75 Eaton Place, S.W. r.
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