Eternal City

To the shrines at Rome of Keats, Shelley, Hawthorne and many a baker's dozen other foreign artists who lived there and mostly loved it, was added last week officially one for Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), foremost U, S. sculptor.* His studio, it seems, had long been gone; its site was uncertain even to Mrs. Saint-Gaudens herself, after great change in the vicinity. Recently Carlaridi, oldest and much honored Italian painter, pointed out the spot where he had often visited the painter, Last week U. S. Ambassdor Henry Prather Fletcher spoke at the unveiling of a tablet.

Saint-Gaudens lived in Rome, in the Piazza Tolentino, 1870-73. When he went thera hs was 23 and unknown. But there he did his Hiawatha and his Silence, precursors, said Ambassador Fletcher, of his great Lincoln in Chicago, his Puritan in Springfield, Mass., and others. There, too, he was "discovered" by Senator William M. Evarts. Saint-Gaudens made a bust of him and this led to the sculptor's first celebrated commission, his relief for St. Thomas's Church, Manhattan.

*His son, Homer, is Director of Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, and one of the chief U. S. art critics of today. Earlier, he was stage director for Maude Adams.