. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ectural reminders along the thoroughfares. We are told that there is more than a suggestion of ancient Rome inseveral New York streets: The colonnade of the new postoffice, with itsfull score of great columns, worthy of Rome at its height; this colonnadehas been carried out with a classic severity and correctness which woulddoubtless have won high praise from Roman critics; the colonnade beforethe new municipal building would have looked well facing the Romanforum; the facade of a great bank on Broad street and a familiar block o
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ectural reminders along the thoroughfares. We are told that there is more than a suggestion of ancient Rome inseveral New York streets: The colonnade of the new postoffice, with itsfull score of great columns, worthy of Rome at its height; this colonnadehas been carried out with a classic severity and correctness which woulddoubtless have won high praise from Roman critics; the colonnade beforethe new municipal building would have looked well facing the Romanforum; the facade of a great bank on Broad street and a familiar block onLafayette place hold the same suggestion; the doorways, windows andother details of many modern office buildings have been so closely copiedfrom famous Roman originals that a citizen of ancient Rome would feel verymuch at home in such surroundings. The circular, or elliptical court house, a massive structure, at least mightsuggest the coliseum to Caesar; and the Broadway policemen, standing likeRoman senators, would add verisimilitude.—Improvement The Architect and liii^iiiccr 69 Housing in England after the War* By J. A. M. n. WlllLll it is essential that the ijrincipal cnerj^ies of the nation at the|)resent time should he jjiven to the task of carryinjj; to a successfulend the titanic stru;;i;le in which we are enj^ajredi it is also inijiortantthat thoUi,fht should now he devoted to the prohlems which will arise wiienthe war is concluded. The country has had to pay very dearly in men andmoney for its unpreparedness for the contest with (lennany. Let this be awarning to us to make some preparation for the unprecedented conditionswhich will arise when the i)resent war is finished. When the great strugglewith Xapoleon came to an end in 1813 there was a i)rolonged jjcriod of themost acute distress. ()ne of the best accounts of what hai)i)ene(l is containedin Lord Beaconsfields novel of Coningshy. When the ])eace came, saysLord IJeaconsfield,
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