. The New York coach-maker's magazine. you inaddition, sir, that the buggy is the nicest and most grace-ful thing in the world. The buggy not graceful ! Thebuggy, the pride and love of every true American coach-maker ! I will speak plainly to you. If I had your rule,which I certainly admire very much, in my one hand, andmy last-finished buggy, of which I hereby send you adrawing, in the other hand, and had to make a choice be-tween them, dear sir, I would drop your rule and stick tomy buggy. Therefore, 1 ask you if it is really your idea,that everything which is not governed by this all-govern
. The New York coach-maker's magazine. you inaddition, sir, that the buggy is the nicest and most grace-ful thing in the world. The buggy not graceful ! Thebuggy, the pride and love of every true American coach-maker ! I will speak plainly to you. If I had your rule,which I certainly admire very much, in my one hand, andmy last-finished buggy, of which I hereby send you adrawing, in the other hand, and had to make a choice be-tween them, dear sir, I would drop your rule and stick tomy buggy. Therefore, 1 ask you if it is really your idea,that everything which is not governed by this all-govern-ing rule is not graceful 1 If you choose to answer the question in your Maga-zine, you would perhaps like to publish this letter have no objection to that, jf you will only dress it a lit-tle and omit my name, for, though nobody can say anything mean of Peter Jones & Co., yet I do not like to 112 THE NEW YORK COACH-MAKERS MAGAZINE. December, 1870. have my name connected with any authorships. You cansign me as Yours truly,. In reply to this excellent letter, we would make thefollowing statement: Proportionality is a part of beauty. All dispropor-tionality is, if considered by itself, unpleasing. But proportionality is not the whole beauty. Beautycontains other elements, and higher ones, which, whenpowerful and prominent, can overshadow even a high de-gree of disproportionality. One of the most essential constituents of beauty is ex-act correlation between idea and form. If the form ismoulded in perfect harmony with the demands of theidea, the appearance is pleasing to every one who under-stands the idea. The idea of a carriage is the idea of a thing of a carriage is built in its minutest details with strict re-gard to usefulness, it will look pleasing to every one whounderstands what a carriage is to be used for. And now for the buggy. We have a friend, a foreigner, who lives in a perpetualwarfare with the buggy. Though he admires very muchthe eminent skill wh
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