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is rare. "Ward seems to have it, but he strikes us as lack- 

 ing reliiiement and ideality. It is a good piece of work of 

 his above the ether monument. Instructive it is to com- 

 pare this monument with the one on the common ; as 

 instructive as the two churches are in sight from these 

 points of view, the Arlington, the Berkeley street ; in each 

 case to show excellence or defect of style. The ether 

 monument seems to want freedom, and is technical, as 

 the other lacks all education and design. No one can 

 pass the two churches without seeing the grace and feel- 

 ing of the one, and the parody the other is of all grace 

 and proportion. It simply mocks the gothic with ugly 

 parallels. 



Among, the old things, are the wooden images, which 

 used to be in Salem, elegant, rustic, graceful objects. 

 One remains in the Derby house grounds nearly opposite 

 the City Hall. These appear to have been Italian in sen- 

 timent, and are like much existing in Italy now, and which 

 /always has existed there since the Roman times, and the 

 Greek and Etruscan before it. That country loves objects 

 out of doors and against the air, and one said once there 

 were more statues than men at Rome. They are dug up 

 as we dig arrowheads here, the relics of the former in- 

 habitants. There is iron work too, and excellent old 

 fences of stately and ornamental design. These are the 

 lost styles. They have a true interest as the old furniture 

 has. How much they spoke to their time and represented 

 it ! How much elegance there was in them, refinement 

 and taste ! Stately often, imposing and chaste. Wain- 

 scoting, panels, cornice-work, headings, majestic sweeping 

 staircases, and landings like a palace, embayed windows, 

 window seats, balusters, scrolled, of fairy lightness, and 

 rails that curved, descended, crooked and twined upon them- 



