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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

I'cai'llKK ; “ Miss Sinnico, please parse tlie.simtence, ‘Adolphus m.-miod Caroline.” Miss S. : ” Well, ‘ Adolphes’ is a noun, because it i < Uic name of a tiling ; 1 married’ is a conjunction, because it joins Adolphus and Caroline : and 1 (V.roliiie’ is a verb, b--c:,,i--' ;t governs tlm-nonn. W. W. Stout, the sculptor, says statues should be placed near the ground. That seems in be good sense, and since Storey recommends it there is little doubt but it is also good art. Tho old stylo of placing statues on the top of columns and pinnacles, where they would bo out of sight and lose their natural proportions, had the effect to hide art. Human beings arc land animals, and it is unnatural to thrust their statues into the sky,