Evidence is accumulating that the public in all parts of the Union is becoming more earnest for reforms, not merely in politics, but the fine arts. Sculpture is the most obvious art, because it waylays one in park and street and public edifice; it is also that art which has committed most crimes against the taste and, indeed, the common sense of mankind, warping the aesthetic instincts of babes unborn and perverting the ideas of infants. We have now to note a popular uprising against dismal and horrific effigies perpetrated at large expense by men and women for whom the wooden Indian of a cigar store is a task beyond their skill.