MARK TWAIN

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3892, 21 April 1937, Page 5

MARK TWAIN

MEMORIAL FOR LONDON. BUST IN EMBANKMENT GARDENS. It is proposed to add to the memorials of London by ejecting a bust of Mark Twain in the Victoria Embankment Gardens during the coronation period, when many American visitors will be in this country. Permission has been sought by the Mark Twain Memorial Foundation New York, which is in touch with the Office of Works and the London County Council. Details of acceptance have yet to be settled, but it is expedted that the council’s approval will shortly be given, and it is hoped that the vtork will begin in the early spring. The bust, of 38 inches, will be slightly larger than those of Sullivan and Plimsoll which already stand ir. the gardens. It will be an exact copy of the head of the great memorial to Mark Twain in East River Duive Park, New York city, in which the humorist is seen sitting surrounded by many of the characters he created, includ-

ing that splendid trio, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Pudd’n-head Wilson. Thus London is likely soon to. possess a fitting tribute to Mark Twain, the liaughter-maker of all Englishsi caking peoples, who loved London and England. He wrote and said much that was flattering of Englishmen and England —“the one England” of his “More Tramps Abroad,” in which he said of our countryside: “It is made up of very simple details—just grass, and tiees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and houses, «n.l vines, and churches and castles, and here and there a ruin—-and over it all a mellow dream haze of history. But its beauty is incomparable, and all its cwn.”