STATUES OF ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD.
* The great metropolis, London, is bacoming enriched year by year with statues of the illustrious dead. A statue in bronze on the Embankment and a marble effigy in Westminister Abbey aie at present suggested as the form of the national memorial of Lord Shaftesbury. It is likely that something additional will he added, if for no other reason, because the sub-crip tions which are already promised bid fair to considerably moie than meet the cost of two statues. The Dean and Chapter of Westminster have given consent to the placing of the medallion portrait of Sir Walter Scott on the walls of the Abbey. The cost of the medalion, which is die work of Sir John Steel!, will be defrayed by a few of the leading citizens of Bdinbuigb. A bronze statue of the poet is also likely to be erected on the Thames Embankment.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2878, 19 January 1886, Page 3
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