A Word for Architecture 



right methods of treating the architectural 

 features of such a spot. Here and there, in 

 quiet corners and shady nooks, we find 

 rougli httle fiiglits of steps and rustic sum- 

 mer-houses of unhewn wood ; but in all 

 conspicuous places, and for all important 

 constructions, work of a more pohshed and 

 artificial sort is employed. But in the new 

 Franklin Park at Boston, for example, there 

 are structures in the most prominent situa- 

 tions which would seem more appropriate in 

 a vroody glen, miles away from any town. 

 A drinking-fountain, carefully built of jag- 

 ged stones to look as if carelessly thrown 

 together for a temporary purpose, may have 

 a beauty of its own ; but it is not fitly 

 placed beside the principal building and 

 near the principal drivCAvay of an urban 

 park. And steps of rude slabs, scarcely re- 

 vealing the touch of the chisel, do not seem 

 appropriate in contact with the accurately 

 shaped and smoothed curbing of such a 

 drive. 



In building the gateways at the principal 

 entrance to this beautifully designed pleasure- 

 ground, the aim seems to have been to make 



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