A NOVEL WAR MEMORIAL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 24

A NOVEL WAR MEMORIAL

Mr. Herbert Haseltine, the American sculptor, who is now busy in his Paris studio upon the modelling of a large series of English prize animals, has just 'completed a war memorial to be erected at the Cavalry Club in memory, as. tho inscription in front of the base reads, "of the two hundred and seventy-two members of the Cavalry Club who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918." The memorial, on the plinth of which are engraved the words, "The Empty Saddle," takes the very original form of a charger whose rider has been killed on the battlefield. There is probably no living sculptor who rival Mr. Haseltine in the plastic rendering of horses, either in repose' or in movement, and the bronze horse with "the empty saddle" cannot but still further enhance his reputation. The base, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyons, 8.A., is carved in black, grey, and white marble, and provides space in the niche for a volume containing the names of those to whose memory the monument is to be erected next month.

Some candidates at the Italian General Election found a knowledge of languages In the towns of Lccce and Rcrgio di Calabria a majority of the inhabitant* speak only Creek, while in other parts of Southern Italy and Sicily Albanian is the prevailing' tongue-. French j s the mother tongue of over 100.000 natives ol the districts o£ .Aosla. I'ipiinrol and' Siizf, iinrl Orman of some 12.000 in'l'ieil iiiout. iind .W.iotiii. wliilu Catalan is largely JiioUon.in Sardinia. German. Serbii-n Slovenian, and other Slav dialects pipvail in the provinces annexed since tho war, where the inhabitants nuinbennl 1,501,601 at tlio time of Ihe ID2I Census.