It is said that the historical romances of Alexandre Dumas are in more demand at the Public Library than any other fiction. Doubtless the books most read are "The Three Musketeers," "Twenty Years After" and "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," in which the intrepid d'Artagnan holds the front of the stage as a young blade who never refuses a passage at anms, as a mature fighting man whose wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with a quick pulse beat that his admires learned that a statue is to be raised at Auch in Gascony to perpetuate the real as distinguished from the fictious d'Artagnan. It is naively said in the announcement of this important news that "Gascons have long felt that the protetype of Alexandre Dumas hero deserved recognition by his fellow countrymen whom he helped to make famous all over the world." --New York Times.