House and Garden 
9 feet high, and in August he put in a 
new floor and surrounded the posts with 
siding, thereby making it a two-story 
affair. There is now a space of 7 inches 
between the new floor and the ground, 
and Mr. Fesler expects to have a three- 
story barn in course of time. He has 
built outside stairs to the second story. 
The neighbors come from miles around 
to see “Fesler’s elevator,” as they call it, 
and he and his barn are the subjects of 
a great deal of fun in and around Mor¬ 
gantown.— St. Louts Globe-Demorcat. 
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE 
/ T V HIS Renaissance of Classic architec- 
ture began in Florence, under Bru¬ 
nelleschi and Alberti. Later, in the North, 
another school arose in Milan under 
Bramante, and these two branches 
finally met and produced their highest 
results at Rome. We tried to trace these 
schools in their respective fields, and it 
was of course in Florence itself that we 
found the visible first fruits of the 
Renaissance, so far as architecture is 
concerned. At Pisa, it is true, we saw 
how Nicholas, the sculptor, had drawn 
inspiration from ancient Roman models 
for the figures on his pulpits; but the 
Gothic carvers of the facades of Paris 
and Amiens had done as much a hun¬ 
dred years earlier, and the wonder is 
that artists and craftsmen should ever 
have ceased to cherish and assimilate the 
ancient work by which they were sur¬ 
rounded, and which was so far beyond 
their own powers. Apparently, how¬ 
ever, for a hundred years after Nicholas 
of Pisa, men paid no heed to the archi¬ 
tectural monuments of antiquity around 
them. T he real awakening came al¬ 
most simultaneously to collectors, who 
were eager for jewels, coins and ivories 
from Greece and Rome; to scholars 
who with avidity sought the classic 
manuscripts that until then had been 
buried in the monasteries; to painters 
and sculptors and architects, who sud¬ 
denly saw beauty in the models of clas¬ 
sical antiquity, and strove to graft the 
antique traditions on the civilization of 
their own time. What the French 
sculptors of the twelfth century strove 
to imitate; what Nicholas of Pisa faint¬ 
ly saw in the thirteenth century; what 
Petrarch at Padua, and Giotto, Orcagna, 
and Simone Memmi in Tuscany, found 
in the classics to delight them in the four¬ 
teenth century, all this finally took form 
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