August, 



1905 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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towns and cities of the United States with an 

 urgent appeal for its adoption. 



This model code has been prepared by Mr. 

 William J. Fryer, who is largely the author 

 of the New ^ ork City code, and who has 

 revised the New ^ ork code to meet general 

 conditions, thus producing, with much other 

 specialized help, the present model code. 

 This is neither the place, nor is there here 

 opportunity, to examine the model code in de- 

 tail, but the auspices under which it has been 

 produced entitle it to the most favorable con- 

 sideration. It presents the argument for an 

 efficient building law in a concrete form, and 

 it presents it in the best way it has yet been 

 brought forward. As a basis for a local build- 

 ing law this code has exceptional value, for it 

 can readily be adapted to local conditions and 

 made to meet the special requirements of 

 various localities. It emphasizes in a very 

 emphatic way the earnestness of the National 

 Board of Fire Underwriters in its campaign 

 for better building and in its protest against 

 wanton and unnecessary loss by fire. The code 

 is, of course, quite complete in the subjects it 

 treats of, and has been printed a good style 

 with an ample index. 



Church Architecture 



The Rise axd Development of Christian 

 Architecture. By the Rev. Joseph 

 Cullen Aver, Jr., Ph.D. Milwaukee: 

 The Young Churchman Co. Pp. 64. 



Even* book which has for its avowed object 

 the broadening of the popular interest in archi- 

 tecture deserves a welcome. Dr. Ayer's book, 

 which originally appeared in the columns of 

 the Living Church — a fact to which it owes 

 its form — is a well meant effort to present 

 some of the leading principles in church archi- 

 tecture as illustrated in historic buildings, and 

 has been carried out with considerable success. 



His method has been to select certain build- 

 ings, or groups of buildings, as typical of the 

 various periods of the development of Chris- 

 tian architecture, and, by giving an adequate 

 account of these churches, to draw a graphic 

 picture of progress in church architecture. It 

 is an excellent plan, and has been well exe- 

 cuted. The buildings chosen for treatment are 

 exactly those most typical of their especial 

 period, and the author presents the chief facts 

 of their history and their relation to con- 

 temporary structures in a clear and satisfactory 

 manner. 



The book frankly makes no claim for com- 

 pleteness, nor does the author make any effort 

 to treat the history of architecture, even as 

 illustrated in churches only, with complete- 

 ness. It is a book intended to arouse interest, 

 and will serve as an admirable stepping-stone 

 to further studies in the fascinating subject of 

 which it treats. 



Like many writers who approach church 

 architecture from an ecclesiastical standpoint, 

 Dr. Ayer refuses to believe in the growth of 

 a real architectural style later than the Eng- 

 lish Perpendicular Gothic. For him the 

 Renaissance has no message and has no prod- 

 ucts. It is quite true that there is little 

 contemporary' church architecture of perma- 

 nent value, but it is most emphatically true 

 that the Renaissance in its golden period pro- 

 duced great churches, churches as much 

 churches in an ecclesiastical and architectural 

 sense as any building erected in the Gothic 

 period. Dr. Ayer is quite justified in bring- 

 ing his book to an end at any point that suits 

 his own convenience or which meets his views; 

 but he clearly lessens his value as a leader in 

 the subject of good architecture by closing his 

 eyes to a period wh'ch produced some of the 

 most impressive and most original creations 

 of ecclesiastical architecture. 



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