. Factory and industrial management . ys, and feminine bicycle costumes. Caprice is not archiLcture- exaggeration of necessary or useful features to the verge ofabrdi;y is not architecture ,. novelty for the sake of novelty is not 42 AN ARRAIGNMENT OF CITY AR CHITE CTURE. architecture ; nor—let this be written large—do a few classic details,though copied directly from Mgnola and indiscriminately applied tothe outside of a building, make a colonial mansion of a broken-backed barn. But to return to the papers and the lies they tell in the guise ofarchitectural comment and criticism. Anything lik
. Factory and industrial management . ys, and feminine bicycle costumes. Caprice is not archiLcture- exaggeration of necessary or useful features to the verge ofabrdi;y is not architecture ,. novelty for the sake of novelty is not 42 AN ARRAIGNMENT OF CITY AR CHITE CTURE. architecture ; nor—let this be written large—do a few classic details,though copied directly from Mgnola and indiscriminately applied tothe outside of a building, make a colonial mansion of a broken-backed barn. But to return to the papers and the lies they tell in the guise ofarchitectural comment and criticism. Anything like public compre-hension of good architecture seems hopeless while these shallow andessentially false comments are the only instruction ever offered to thepeople responsible for the style of our buildings. It would be obvi-ously impracticable for an intelligent editor—and the more intelligenthe is, the more difficult it would be—to say just what he thought ofthe buildings of his neighbors ; but it would seem to be possible for. BOULEVARD MONTMARTRE, PARIS. him either to keep still, or to employ a competent critic to describethe merits of any building that possessed merits, and honestly com-mend the owner and architect, kindly ignoring what could not bewisely approved. Even this silence, which would soon be understoodas tacit disapproval, might in the rough and ready regions cost an oc-casional subscriber, but it ought rather to strengthen a daily paper incommunities where the arts are supposed to be fostered and appreci-ated. I refer to the daily papers in this connection because thosewho really desire to be well-informed have no difficulty in findingsuch instructions and information as they need in the various ably-conducted technical journals. But it is not those who desire to be in-structed for whom instruction must be provided, but for the lost sheep AN ARRAIGNMEN7 OF CIT\ AR CHITE CTURE. 43
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