. St. Nicholas [serial] . ediment. In the cornice were rows of little blocks called dentils, because they look likea row of teeth. Whenever we find an Englishword beginning with d-e-n-t, like dentist ordentistry, or dentil, we may know that it hassomething to do with teeth. In many placeson the Greek temples were bands of ornamen-tation called tongue and egg moldings, be-cause they look like rows of eggs with long,sharp tongues between them. Greek mold-ings and capitals may be seen on thousands ofbuildings in America. The Greeks built beau-tiful gateways and market-places and open-airtheaters,
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ediment. In the cornice were rows of little blocks called dentils, because they look likea row of teeth. Whenever we find an Englishword beginning with d-e-n-t, like dentist ordentistry, or dentil, we may know that it hassomething to do with teeth. In many placeson the Greek temples were bands of ornamen-tation called tongue and egg moldings, be-cause they look like rows of eggs with long,sharp tongues between them. Greek mold-ings and capitals may be seen on thousands ofbuildings in America. The Greeks built beau-tiful gateways and market-places and open-airtheaters, and sometimes beautiful tombs. The Romans had a religion and climate andbuilding-materials that were much like those ofthe Greeks, but they had a different governmentand were a less refined people. Their art wasa good deal like the Greeks, but coarser andmore mechanical. Their curves could be madewith a compass. Their ornamentation wasoften heavy and overdone. They were, how-ever, in advance of the Greeks in some THE ITALIAN STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE. They knew how to conquer all kinds of peopleand keep them all together and loyal to their buildings they used arches made ofseveral stones held together by a middle stonecalled the keystone, just as all the different 988 A LITTLE TALK ABOUT ARCHITECTURE. [Sept. parts of the Roman world were held togetherby Rome. The use of the arch was new andimportant. It made it possible to erect muchhigher and stronger buildings than the Greekshad. Their arches were like a of their most wonderful buildings was thePantheon, at Rome, which had a broad, lowdome held up without any pillars or support. After the Roman world became Christianizedwe find that the most beautiful and importantbuildings were churches. In western Europethese were almost always built in the shape ofa Latin cross. The long part was called a nave and the cross-piece was called a tran-sept. For many centuries these had the Romanarches over the doo
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