January, 1914 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
XV 
Jefferson as an Architect. By William 
Alexander Lambeth, M.D., and Warren 
II. Manning. Boston and New York: 
Houghton, Mifflin Company. 1913. Cloth. 
Large Svo. Illustrated. 122 pp. and plates. 
Limited to 450 copies. Price, $10 net. 
Historians and students of American 
history, architects and lovers of architec- 
ture, as well as admirers of beautiful books 
and all those interested in the personality 
of one of the greatest of our presidents, 
will welcome this notable publication, “Jef- 
ferson as an Architect,’’ which Messrs. 
Houghton, Mifflin Company are issuing in 
special limited edition. The book, which is 
the joint work of Dr. W. A. Lambeth of the 
University of Virginia and of Warren H. 
Manning, the well-known landscape archi- 
tect, shows for the first time on documen- 
tary evidence the nature and extent of Jef- 
ferson’s talent as an architect and as a de- 
signer of landscapes. Beginning with some 
account of his planning of Monticello, his 
own interesting home, the book then pro- 
ceeds to tell the story of the part he played in 
designing and carrying through that unique 
and important piece of American architec- 
ture, the University of Virginia. The work 
follows closely letters, memoranda, journals 
and drawings in Jefferson’s own hand. It 
is lavishly illustrated from a superb series 
of photographs and other pictures, includ- 
ing a photogravure frontispiece from an in- 
teresting old lithograph of the university 
and its environment. Many of the more 
important pieces of manuscript evidence 
are reproduced in facsimile. This is one 
of the most beautiful books issued by the 
Riverside Press and is one of absorbing in- 
terest. 
Greek Refinements. By William Henry 
Goodyear. New Haven : Yale University 
Press. 1913. Cloth, Royal 40. Illus- 
trated. 240 pp. Price $10 net. 
“Greek Refinements,’’ by William H. 
Goodyear, M.A., is the first general work- 
on the subject of this highly important 
phase of Greek temple architecture. Al- 
though these subtle refinements are the 
most notable and most characteristic fea- 
ture, of Greek temple architecture, no other 
book in modern literature relating to this 
subject and designed for general reading 
has appeared. The only two extant folio 
plate publications in this field were also 
published at such relatively early dates 
(1851, Penrose, and 1878, Pennethorne) 
preceding more recent observations and 
special publications, as to seriously limit 
and impair their present usefulness. The 
latter book, moreover, is out of print. In 
the present volume Professor Goodyear has 
successfully summarized for those who are 
interested in the general history of Greek 
civilization, and for serious readers in gen- 
eral, as well as for architects, archaeologists 
and art students, the notable observations 
of Hoffer, Pennethorne and Penrose, and 
has united with his admirable account of 
their discoveries a summary of all later 
published observations and a review of all 
later critical, periodical literature on the 
subject. These various periodical publica- 
tions are, at present, largely inaccessible 
even to specialists, and the references to 
this topic, either in general or in special 
works on the History of Art and Architec- 
ture, are generally limited to a few sen- 
tences. The first chapter concerns itself 
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