. Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary BEAUTY BEFITTING THEIR OBJECT. GOOD TASTESUGGESTS THAT ALL MONUMENTS AND HEAD-STONES, TABLETS AND CENOTAPHS, TOMBS ANDMAUSOLEUMS SHOULD BE DIGNIFIED, REVERENT AND APPROPRIATE TO THE MEMORY OF THOSECOMMEMORATED. THE BEAUTY OF DESIGN IS LARGELY GOV-ERNED BY APPROPRIATENESS, AND BY THEMATERIAL EMPLOYED: IT IS APPROPRIATE WHENIT IS IN HARMONY WITH, OR ILLUSTRATES, THECHARACTER OF THE MEMORIALIZED; WHILE THEMATERIAL MAY BE MARBLE, OR GRANITE, ORBRONZE, OR COMBINATIONS OF THE SAME, BUTWHATEVER IT IS THE DES
. Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary BEAUTY BEFITTING THEIR OBJECT. GOOD TASTESUGGESTS THAT ALL MONUMENTS AND HEAD-STONES, TABLETS AND CENOTAPHS, TOMBS ANDMAUSOLEUMS SHOULD BE DIGNIFIED, REVERENT AND APPROPRIATE TO THE MEMORY OF THOSECOMMEMORATED. THE BEAUTY OF DESIGN IS LARGELY GOV-ERNED BY APPROPRIATENESS, AND BY THEMATERIAL EMPLOYED: IT IS APPROPRIATE WHENIT IS IN HARMONY WITH, OR ILLUSTRATES, THECHARACTER OF THE MEMORIALIZED; WHILE THEMATERIAL MAY BE MARBLE, OR GRANITE, ORBRONZE, OR COMBINATIONS OF THE SAME, BUTWHATEVER IT IS THE DESIGN SHOULD BE OF ANATURE WHICH WILL BE BEST EXPRESSED BY THEMATERIAL CHOSEN. |H|KE NUMBER OF FORMS THAT AN OUT-OF-** DOOR MEMORIAL MAY TAKE IS SOMEWHATLIMITED, BUT THERE IS NO END TO THE VARIETYOF ORNAMENTATION THAT CAN BE APPLIED TOTHEM, AND IT IS IN THE SELECTION OF THIS THATMUCH OF THEIR BEAUTY RESTS. THE FORM MAY BE GOOD, AND AT THE SAME TIME BEDESTROYED BY A LACK OF HARMONY BETWEENIT AND ITS DECORATIONS; AND IT IS ALSO TRUETHE ORNAMENTATION MAY BE ALL THAT COULD. BE DESIRED, AND YET THE MEMORIAL ANYTHINGBUT BEAUTIFUL, AND ALL BECAUSE THERE IS NOPROPER PROPORTION BETWEEN PART AND IS ONLY ONE CONCLUSION TO BE DRAWNFROM THIS, VIZ., A KNOWLEDGE OF PROPOR-
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