. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. CLUB HOUSE, CERCLE DE LA LTBRAIRIE, PARIS. PLATE BUILDING OP NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, ST. PAUL, LXIV. Peculiarities of French Design guided by good taste, is to be given withoutreserve to the French designers of the longyears beginning with 1860. Good taste isvisible everywhere, not in an exceptionalmeasure in this building ; on the contrary, itis to be thought by a careful student of thestreet fronts of Paris that there is a relativeclumsiness which other and less noticeablebuildings
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. CLUB HOUSE, CERCLE DE LA LTBRAIRIE, PARIS. PLATE BUILDING OP NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, ST. PAUL, LXIV. Peculiarities of French Design guided by good taste, is to be given withoutreserve to the French designers of the longyears beginning with 1860. Good taste isvisible everywhere, not in an exceptionalmeasure in this building ; on the contrary, itis to be thought by a careful student of thestreet fronts of Paris that there is a relativeclumsiness which other and less noticeablebuildings have escaped : but there is every-where the visible presence of thought—ofmatured study of the problem, and that isa thing so rare in the modern architectureof other lands that we are never broughtface to face with the French instances of itsactive presence without a new thrill of ad-miration. In the United States, some of the mostthoughtful buildings have been those in-spired by the semi-Spanish style of theprovinces torn from Mexico in 1848; themissions of California and New by those blessings of a temperater
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