Art Out-of -Doors 



times fall into rudeness. This shows, of 

 course, that we have not fully understood 

 the meaning of fitness as an architectural 

 term j we have rememxbered that a structure 

 should harmonize with its surroundings, but 

 have forgotten that it should also harmonize 

 with the spirit of cultivated men and women 

 who are the heirs of all the ages, living in a 

 state of high civihzation, and inheriting the 

 practical processes as well as the tastes of 

 countless generations of skilful builders. 

 And thus, moreover, we have often missed 

 even true simplicity; for civilized, intelli- 

 gent men can produce rude-looking structures 

 only by an effort so deliberate and self-con- 

 scious that it lays them open to the charge 

 of affectation. 



No one need object to an Adirondack 

 camp, a fishing-lodge, or a hill-side studio, 

 if it is rough and rude. It is designed as 

 a shelter for a semi-civilized sort of exist- 

 ence, and may be as appropriate to the 

 temporary needs of its inhabitants as to 

 the wild scenes amid v>'hich it stands. But 

 when costly buildings in civilized neighbor- 



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