Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . urt Houses, the Denverand the Philadelphia Mints, and theNew London Post Office, were aboutbeing materialized, when once againthe politicians, who cared not a whitfor one design more than another,interfered to oblige the governmentcontractor. But the good seed hadbeen planted, and the work of the
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . urt Houses, the Denverand the Philadelphia Mints, and theNew London Post Office, were aboutbeing materialized, when once againthe politicians, who cared not a whitfor one design more than another,interfered to oblige the governmentcontractor. But the good seed hadbeen planted, and the work of thepresent incumbent, James KnoxTaylor, is likely to show a markedadvance over that of many previousyears. The general scheme of the Con-gressional Library was conceived bySmithmeyer & Pelz, the details car-ried out subsequentlyby General Casey andhis able assistantsand successors, andthe building openedto the public in experiment ofthe collaboration ofsculptor and painterwith the architect jlllIIgelTOBglJJMIll had --ed so fa- vorably m Chicago,that the artists in-vited to decorate thisbuilding gladly re-sponded; and al-though the remuner-ation was inconsid-erable, their loyaltyto the country, asto Art, resulted in THE AMERICAN SURETY COMPANYS BUILDING, NEW YORK. SUCll mural CieCOra-. .ill 11
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