. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . ather than want of proportion, has usually been itscrying fault. The householder has only a fagade, say,thirty feet in width, with which to estabUsh the identityof his house from that of his neighbor. He must usesomething individual and original on the outside, and thatsomething is almost always ornamentation — chasing orcarving in stringcourse or window-frame or it is seldom just, or true, or quite right; it is oftenoverdone, or trivial, or out of scale. Yet with all that is bad or indifferent, with all that isaborti
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . ather than want of proportion, has usually been itscrying fault. The householder has only a fagade, say,thirty feet in width, with which to estabUsh the identityof his house from that of his neighbor. He must usesomething individual and original on the outside, and thatsomething is almost always ornamentation — chasing orcarving in stringcourse or window-frame or it is seldom just, or true, or quite right; it is oftenoverdone, or trivial, or out of scale. Yet with all that is bad or indifferent, with all that isabortive or absurd in Fifth Avenue houses, there is stilla leaven of good, and much that may be justly regardedwith pride as the promise of better things. The strivingfor results is not a thing to groan over in despair. It atleast shows an attempt at originahty, a discontent withpresent attainment, if you will, which is always the pre-liminary step to new creation. Out of much travail, per-haps, shall come a newer architecture — a nobler art. SHOPS AND SHOPPING. Pl. XI. - BROADWAY FROM MADISON SQUARE 35IAU92 MOaiQAM MO^l^ YAWQAOaa - .IX .jT t f^ Mr V-i^
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