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picturesque effect, — is very easily and cheaply constructed 
of wood or stone, and is perhaps more entirely adapted to 
our hot summers and cold winters than any other equally 
simple mode of building. We hope to see this Bracketed 
style becoming every day more common in the United 
States, and especially in our farm and country houses, when 
wood is the material employed in their construction. 
Gothic , or, more properly, 'pointed architecture , which 
sprung up with the Christian religion, reached a point of 
great perfection about the thirteenth century ; a period when 
the most magnificent churches and cathedrals of England 
and Germany were erected. These wonderful structures, 
reared by an almost magical skill and contrivance, with their 
richly groined roofs of stone, supported in mid-air ; their 
beautiful and elaborate tracery and carving of plants, flowers, 
and animate objects ; their large windows, through which 
streamed a rich glow of rainbow light ; their various but- 
tresses and pinnacles, all contributing to strengthen, and 
at the same time give additional beauty to the exterior ; their 
clustered columns, airy-like, yet firm ; and, surmounting the 
whole, the tall spire, piled up to an almost fearful height 
toward the heavens ; are lasting monuments of the genius, 
scientific skill, and mechanical ingenuity of the artists of 
those times. That person, who from ignorance or preju- 
dice, fully supposes there is no architecture but that of 
the Greeks, would do well to study one of these unrivalled 
specimens of human skill. In so doing, unless he closes his 
eyes against the evidences of his senses, he cannot but admit 
that there is far more genius, and more mathematical skill, 
evinced in one of these cathedrals, than would have been 
requisite in the construction of the most celebrated of the 
Greek temples. Though they may not exhibit that simpli- 
