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to enable the modeler to correctly depict all parts. If strik¬ 
ing peculiarities appear in any place they are not due to a 
lack of data, requiring that these places be filled in from 
imagination. 
Standing before the New Hampshire model, we cannot 
take it all in at a glance; the eye wanders, or rather darts ; 
from point to point, and in the end obtains not one clear, 
general impression, but a series of details. These details are 
not derived from detailed surveys nor from accurate data, 
and hence give crude or erroneous impressions. It is my 
opinion that the adoption of a smaller size for the New 
Hampshire model would have yielded a better result. 
In criticizing this model I do not wish to be understood 
as criticizing the modeler. The modeler, like the architect, 
cannot always have his own way. He makes the thing 
ordered and paid for. When an individual or a commis¬ 
sion or board orders a model made, conditions may be at¬ 
tached. Only when the modeler has absolute freedom in 
selecting his subject, size, scale and color scheme can he be 
held wholly responsible. When he is free to produce his 
ideal, then only will criticism have its full value. Indeed, 
the object of this and, as I conceive, of all art criticism is 
to reveal the ideal. It is only high-grade works that are 
worth painstaking and careful criticism. 
The size of a map, whether plain or in relief, should be 
and is conditioned by the purpose for which it is made. If 
designed for use close at hand, as when held in hand, it 
should be small; if for use only at a distance it should be 
large, as in the case of wall maps intended for the use of 
audiences. In the case of relief maps their use appears to 
fall between the above extremes. They are usually exhib¬ 
ited lying on their backs on a table or raised platform and 
the user of them is permitted to come near. This mode of 
exhibition is a criterion for determining the ideal size. Let 
it be such that when so exhibited the eye can take in the 
whole without any movement of the head. 
Most of the relief maps at the exposition fulfilled this 
condition. They were of such size as to be easily examined 
