. Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary ORNAMENTATION IN UNION WITH COSTLY WITHOUT ARTISTIC COMPOSITION. COMPETUTION OF COST SHOULD NEVER ENTER INTO THEMATTER. LET THE SUM TO BE EXPENDED BE. W^($w$m FRANKLY GIVEN. SO THAT THE DESIGN MAY BEMADE TO MEET THE AMOUNT SPECIFIED, FORTHERE IS ONLY ONE KIND OF COMPETITIONADMISSIBLE IN MATTERS OF ART AND THAT IS OFDESIGN. LTHOUGH SHAFTS ARE LARGELY IN USE, YET,OF ALL FORMS OF OUT-OF-DOOR MEMORIALSTHEY ARE MORE OFTEN DISAPPOINTING, AND ALLBECAUSE THE LAW OF PROPORTION HAS NOTBEEN ADHERED TO
. Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary ORNAMENTATION IN UNION WITH COSTLY WITHOUT ARTISTIC COMPOSITION. COMPETUTION OF COST SHOULD NEVER ENTER INTO THEMATTER. LET THE SUM TO BE EXPENDED BE. W^($w$m FRANKLY GIVEN. SO THAT THE DESIGN MAY BEMADE TO MEET THE AMOUNT SPECIFIED, FORTHERE IS ONLY ONE KIND OF COMPETITIONADMISSIBLE IN MATTERS OF ART AND THAT IS OFDESIGN. LTHOUGH SHAFTS ARE LARGELY IN USE, YET,OF ALL FORMS OF OUT-OF-DOOR MEMORIALSTHEY ARE MORE OFTEN DISAPPOINTING, AND ALLBECAUSE THE LAW OF PROPORTION HAS NOTBEEN ADHERED TO IN THEIR IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON BEYOND THISWHY A PLAIN OR ORNAMENTAL SHAFT MAY NOTBE MADE IN ITSELF BOTH INTERESTING ANDBEAUTIFUL, FOR THE CANON OF PROPORTION,THE TRUE RELATIONSHIP OF PART TO PART,BASE TO SHAFT, HEIGHT TO DIAMETER, DIAM-ETERTO GRADATING CIRCUMFERENCE, IS MOSTSIMPLE AND EASILY UNDERSTOOD, THAT IS BYTHOSE WHO HAVE MADE A STUDY OF THE SUB-JECT, AND NO OTHERS OUGHT TO UNDERTAKETO DESIGN THIS FORM OF MONUMENT. THEQUESTION OF PROPORTION IS BY NO MEANS CON-FINED TO THE MEMORIAL ITSELF, BUT ALSOENTERS INTO ITS LOCATION AND MONUMENTALSURROUNDINGS. AGAIN THE QUESTION OF THECOLOR OF THE MATERIAL EMPLOYED IS OF THEGREATES
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