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 
rough little flights of steps and rustic sum- 
mer-houses of unhewn wood; but in all 
conspicuous places, and for all important 
constructions, work of a more polished 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 woody 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 driveway 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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