H ouse and Garden 
we find to be a farmstead on the Brandy¬ 
wine, the work of Mr. Charles Barton Keen, 
who also exhibits his completed house for 
Mr. Chauncey Olcott, at Saratoga, N. Y. 
Other examples of well-designed dwellings 
are the work of Messrs. Perot & Bissell, 
Charles K. Cummings, Arthur H. Brockie 
and Heacock & Hokenson. 
RENDERING 
A collection of drawings such as are here 
exposed to public view illustrates the im- 
A PROPOSED CITY GARDEN TO BE BUII.T IN PHILADELPHIA 
Designed and drawn by Wilson Eyre. Shown at the T-Square Club's Exhibition 
exhibition. Between these two extremes 
the best draughtsmen pick their way, ever 
experimenting with and trying new uses of 
their materials, not however with the idea of 
outshining a possible neighbor in the gal¬ 
lery, but with an individual touch emphasiz¬ 
ing the most important facts of the architect’s 
conception. Any other end than this may 
truly be termed theatrical and “shiekish.” 
Of these meretricious effects the present 
exhibition is entirely free, if we except those 
few symphonies of gloom, born in the dark on 
portance of the manner in which an archi¬ 
tectural idea is presented. This is what 
architects call the “ rendering” of a drawing, 
produced by the manipulation of pencil or 
crayon, water-color or ink. Vigorous strokes 
of the pen or pencil and strong contrast of 
color values they know infallibly arrest the 
eye, even if it only lingers there until the 
trick is discovered. On the other hand, a 
drawing produced in the careful and me¬ 
chanical manner of an architect’s office, and 
judged only in the solitude in which it is 
made, is usually a weak performance in the 
end and is practically lost when placed in an 
lugubrious paper, and which a spectator of 
average eyesight must needs mount a chair, 
lantern in hand, to view. 
Many of the subjects already mentioned 
exemplify most successful rendering. But 
there is a class of work which aims at ren¬ 
dering and that only : the record of archi¬ 
tecture already in existence, such as traveling 
students come upon when they go abroad. 
The sketches they bring back are an inval¬ 
uable feature of the modern exhibition, giv¬ 
ing it piquancy and color and recalling to 
the mind of the visitor pleasant recollections 
of his travels. 
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