ARCHITECTURE. 



BOOK P.. 



New styles of considerable beauty may be formed by in- 

 venting new modes of finishing parapets, rejecting both bat- 

 tlements and ballustrades. Here, however, great care must be 

 taken, not to diverge too far from customary forms ; for it is 

 not easy to get men to sympathize with innovations and new 

 parts that have no precedent in works already existing. An 

 example of this occurs in a plate of elevations given in 

 Book II. of this work. 



A style both characteristic and ceconomical might be pro- 

 duced by attending chiefly to the distribution of the principal 

 masses and the chimney tops. The roof should generally be 

 concealed by a parapet terminated in any simple manner ; the 

 chimney tops should be mere plain masses of masonry. The 

 windows should generally be made large, in order that there 

 may be as few of them as possible. No false ones should be 

 attempted, nor any placed but where they are absolutely neces- 

 sary ; at the same time their general forms should be alike. 

 The walls being thus perfectly plain, considerable expence 

 would be saved. To add intricacy and richness, train ivy and 

 other climbing shrubs on different parts where those beauties 

 are most desirable ; as chiefly along the top of the parapet ; 

 over the windows in place of labels, and upon the chimney tops. 

 This style would have a singular and very picturesque, or 

 perhaps romantic effect. I have seen no example exactly con- 



