Memorial

Last week a distinguished committee awarded a distinguished architect a new distinction--all of which was most to the taste of a nation in whose vocabulary this word is a favorite son. John Russell Pope was the architect. Secretary of State Kellogg, Will Hays, James R. Garfield, Lawrence Abbott, Elon H. Hooker, Arthur W. Page, Mark Sullivan, Charles D. Walcott, Irwin Kirkwood, Frederick C. Hicks, Hermann Hagedorn, were present at the meeting of the committee. The distinction was the choosing of Architect Pope's design for the proposed Roosevelt Memorial. The Association has appropriated $1,000,000 to build it. The design has yet to be approved by Congress.

Since no particulars of Architect Pope's plan were announced, people speculated on what sort of memorial this was to be. They thought of:

The Washington Memorial, austere bayonet of white Maryland marble, which took 36 sporadic years to build (1848-1884); the site for which was chosen by Washington himself; which cost $1,300,000; which was designed by Robert Mills, and whose stones, given by separate states, bear each its privy inscription ("All that live must die," etc.).

The Lincoln Memorial, white marble rectangle surrounded by 36 Doric columns (one for each state at Lincoln's death); costing $3,000,000; designed by Henry Bacon; begun under the direction of a committee appointed by Congress in 1911, "practically" finished in 1921 and inscribed:

IN THIS TEMPLE

AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE

PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE

SAVED THE UNION

THE MEMORY OF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

IS ENSHRINED FOREVER.

Chiesa's Collection

Several times in the last seven years the Italian Government has shaken a stern, denying finger at rich U. S. citizens who have tried to buy objects from the collection of Achillito Chiesa of Milan. Chiesa before the War acquired a great gallery of pre-Renaissance painting, including a triptych by Orcagna, a picture each of Simone, Martini and Bellini, 1,200 other paintings of the 11th to 16th Centuries, early enamels, ivories, textiles, furniture, porcelain, faience, majolica. He bought Correggio's Holy Family, Filippino Lippi's most celebrated Madonna and Child, works by Duerer, Van Cleff, Mabuse, Van Dyck. Unfortunately, Collector Chiesa's funds were not inexhaustible. He ordered more than he could pay for. His collection, like that of the late Lord Leverhulme, will be put on sale in Manhattan this season. The sale will be probably the largest to be held in this country, at least since the Yerkes sale in 1910, which brought $2,250,000.