International studio . FifthAvenue, those old Kinsay dwellings did notaltogether lack uniformity. Good taste and goodjudgment had imposed certain restraints upontheir architects and owners, preventing at leastgross disparity in the height of buildings. Butthen came the invading apartment houses thatignored every restraint! In brief, the pre-eminence of the great media;val city came to anend, its boasted leadership among cities of theFar East passing to its nearest rivals; its very the term which includes every beautiful andappropriate plan and achievement of architectureas well as painting and
International studio . FifthAvenue, those old Kinsay dwellings did notaltogether lack uniformity. Good taste and goodjudgment had imposed certain restraints upontheir architects and owners, preventing at leastgross disparity in the height of buildings. Butthen came the invading apartment houses thatignored every restraint! In brief, the pre-eminence of the great media;val city came to anend, its boasted leadership among cities of theFar East passing to its nearest rivals; its very the term which includes every beautiful andappropriate plan and achievement of architectureas well as painting and sculpture) ranks next toreligion among the permanently valuable posses--sion or assets of a great city. Material advantagesof geographic situation, commercial activity, mustbe balanced by equal aesthetic forces—must haveconstantly the inspiration, guidance, spiritualrefreshment of art, of its pertinent architecture,of literature, and of music—if the development ofa community is to be symmetrical, if its prosperity. WASHINGTON , NEW YORK name was changed, and no one in our own timeasserts that it is still finest and noblest in theworld, or even as fine and noble as its friends couldwish. Perhaps, in view of the fact that upper FifthAvenue, New York, is in danger of becoming amere apartment street, thus losing its specialdistinction, its beauty and dignity, it may be wellto let reasonable appeal to the good taste andgood judgment of all who have at heart the trueinterests of our great American city now take theform of a more extended reference to the fate ofold Kinsay, as follows: It was as true thenas it is to-day that art (in that wider sense of is to endure. Such is the lesson of all the chief rival for leadership among citiesof the Far East adopted the motto: Civic beautybelongs to us all. Moreover people recognizedthe premiership of art (under religion), saying thatwhile art could exist, and indeed in earUer ageshad long existed, without commerce, i
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