. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . THE PIONEER. FEBRUARY, 1843. THE HALL OF FANTASY BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. It has happened lo me, on various occasions,to find myself in a certain edifice, which wouldappear to have some of the characteristics of apublic Exchange. Its interior is a spacioushall, with a pavement of white marble. Over-head is a lofty dome, supported by long- rowsof pillars, of fantastic architecture, the idea ofwhich was probably taken from the Moorishruins of the Alhambra, or perhaps from someenchanted edifice in the Arabian Tales. Thewindows of this hall have a
. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . THE PIONEER. FEBRUARY, 1843. THE HALL OF FANTASY BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. It has happened lo me, on various occasions,to find myself in a certain edifice, which wouldappear to have some of the characteristics of apublic Exchange. Its interior is a spacioushall, with a pavement of white marble. Over-head is a lofty dome, supported by long- rowsof pillars, of fantastic architecture, the idea ofwhich was probably taken from the Moorishruins of the Alhambra, or perhaps from someenchanted edifice in the Arabian Tales. Thewindows of this hall have a breadth and gran-deur of design, and an elaborateness of work-manship, that have nowhere been equalled,except in the Gothic cathedrals of the oldworld. Like their prototypes, too, they admitthe light of heaven only through stained andpictured glass, thus filling the hall with many-colored radiance, and painting its marble floorwith beautiful or grotesque designs ; so thatits inmates breathe, as it were, a visionaryatmosphere, and tread upon the f
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