e square by
which the monument is surrounded are also statues of George Peabody by
W. W. Story (a replica of the one in London), Roger Brooke Taney by W. H.
Rinehart, and John Eager Howard by Emmanuel Fremiet; and bronze pieces
representing Peace, War, Force and Order, and a figure of a lion by Antoine
L. Barye. The Henry Walters collection of paintings, mostly by modern
French artists, and of Chinese and Japanese bronzes, ivory carvings,
enamels, porcelain and paintings is housed in the Walters Art Gallery at
the S. end of Washington Place; at the south-east corner of the square is
the Peabody Institute with its conservatory of music and collection of rare
books, of American paintings, and of casts, including the Rinehart
collection of the works of William H. Rinehart who was a native of
Maryland. In Monument Square near the post-office and the court-house is
the white marble Battle Monument, erected in 1815 to the memory of those
who had fallen in defence of the city in the previous year; it is 52 ft.
high, the column being in the form of a bundle of Roman fasces, upon the
bands of which are inscribed the names of those whom it commemorates; and
the whole is surmounted by a female figure, the emblematical genius of the
city. To this monument and the one in honour of Washington, Baltimore owes
the name "The Monumental City," frequently applied to it. A small monument
erected to the memory of Edgar Allan Poe stands in the Westminster
Presbyterian churchyard, where he is buried; there is another monument to
his memory in Druid Hill Park. In Greenmount Cemetery in the north central
part of the city are the graves of Junius Brutus Booth, Mme Elizabeth
Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879), the wife of Jerome Bonaparte, Johns
Hopkins, John McDonogh and Sidney Lanier.

In 1908 there were in the city under the jurisdiction of the department of
public parks and squares 13 parks of 10 acres or more each and 33 squares,
and the total acreage of parks was 2188 acres and of squares 86.53 acres.
Chief among the parks is Druid Hill Park in the N.W. containing 672.78
acres and famous for its natural beauty. Clifton Park, of 311.26 acres, 2
m. E. of Druid Hill and formerly a part of the Johns Hopkins estate, passed
into the possession of the city in 1895. Patterson Park in the extreme
S.E., of 125.79 acres, is a favourite resort for the inhabitants of East
Baltimore.

_Education_.--Baltimore ranks high as an educational centre. Johns Hopkin