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COLLECTION OF AMERICAN BRONZES
pressed the fierceness, the savage tragedy, of animal life. But our art-
ists look upon it from a very different angle of vision. They see and
express its gentler moods, its comedy, its native tendernesses, the
milder phases of its pathos. And herein is the expression of some
very distinctive features of American character. For these bronzes
are meant primarily for house decorations, and we Americans do not
like our feelings to be harrowed by frequent sight of the fierce, the
savage, the tragic. We prefer an appeal to our sense of humor, to the
kindly side of our character, and to those sentiments wherein we are
in sympathy with the brute creation.
   A very pleasing example of active, joyous motion is to be seen in
Janet Scudder's "Frog Fountain," a dancing boy on a pedestal,
around which are ranged several frogs. The boy's happy, childish
face and beautifully modeled limbs are full of the native gaiety of
childhood.
   A number of additions to the bronze collection have been decided
upon, and are to be installed at once in the Museum. Among these
are: "Head of Victory," by Augustus St. Gaudens; "Caestus,"
by
C. H. Niehaus; "On the Borders of White Man's Land" and "Fight-
ing Bulls," by Solon Borglum; "Boy Feeding Turtle," by Mrs.
Gar-
rett; "Mowgli," by Miss A. Eberle; "The Fight," by E.
W. Deming:
"Panther," by Miss A. V. Hyatt, and two groups of "Horse Tamers,"
by Frederick MacMonnies.
COMRADESHIP
O      STRONG and True! Closer than Friend or Lover;
           Giving your strength and truth to supplement my lack!
      Lending your sweetness my bitterness to cover;
           One sure and steady heart in a grim world's wrack!
                                    -Mary Hamlin Ashman.
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