Museum Notes 11

Notes on Things in General
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A Pauline Johnson Memorial

HE new case, the gift of the Women’s Canadian Club, now under construction
for the preservation of the Pauline Johnson bequest to the Museum, recalls that
there has been much criticism of Vancouver that there has not been a more worthy
monument set over her last resting place. Especially is this commented upon now that
the park is becoming the repository of the busts of other poets. It is not without
nossibility that next year, or the next, there may be a bust of the Bard of Avon himselt
to be set up. What, asks the world, about our own eminently Canadian poet? The

ProposED MEMORIAL IN HONOR OF PAULINE JOHNSON

By Mr. C. S. Mareca, SCULPTOR

question has been asked more than once by visitors from other cities, and Vancouver
must preserve an embarassed silence as a result. For, considering what Pauline
Johnson did for Vancouver in the way of publicity alone, without considering the
literary value of her contributions, especially The Legends, there is every reason for
dissatisfaction.

This year there has been completed by one of the members of the Art, Historical
and Scientific Society a biography of this singer of Canadian lays, which, we under-
stand, will be a real monument to the national figure, who was Pauline Johnson. The
advance notices of this book are looked for with much eagerness by Pauline Johnson
admirers.

In the meantime the model, which was at one time the popular choice as a memorial
of the poet, has much to recommend it even at this time. Submitted to the original
committee by Mr. Charles Sergison Marega, it consisted of two units which could he