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MONUMENT TO LIEUT. MCLAREN IN ST. CUTHBERT’S CHURCH, EDINBURGH. BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.

efficiently illustrate its capabilities than Sir George
Frampton. For some years past he has been work-
ing with admirable intelligence to prove that the
sculptor who develops his decorative feeling in the
right manner can arrive at results of the most com-
manding importance without sacrificing any of his
liberty of action as an artist and without in any
way limiting the scope of his invention. His
achievement is distinguished throughout by a
singularly logical intention to make decoration the
first consideration in his art, and so to deal with
the motives he selects that they will allow him the
fullest opportunities for exercising his capacities
as a designer. Possessed as he is of an unusually

fertile imagination and a specially high degree of
artistic adaptability, he has been able to show that
the principles which guide him in his practice
serve him equally well in whatever direction he
turns in search of material and in whatever kind of
production he may happen to be engaged.
Indeed, in the long series of works for which
he has been responsible the one thing which is
particularly characteristic is the absence of any
set convention or of anything like mechanical
repetition of stock ideas. Marked individuality
there certainly is both in manner of treatment and
in technical method, but this individuality has
never been formalised into a mere mannerism; it


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