House and Garden 
It is the most beautiful treatment of one of 
the most noble attributes of royal duty—royal 
charity and anxiety for the welfare of the children 
of the nation. Of such does great art come; and 
it is the duty of us all not to neglect the artist who 
can, as in the case of such a master mind as this, 
hand down the splendor of his country and the nobility 
of its aim and ideals. 
Now for the future. Let us not hastily condemn 
any struggle for individual treatment; the past ages, 
as I have previously said, are past and gone—to be 
learnt from, not to be slavishly copied. The work 
was for a period of existence, and expressed the life 
of the time. To revive art, scholarship and intellec¬ 
tual training are necessary. Intellectual art is not 
to be ignored, nor is it debasing art to sell it; the 
old masters had their workshops for execution and 
their shops for the sale of their creations. What we 
require is, not too arbitrary an assertion on the part 
of the architect of what is good or had, and for which 
often an architect owing to the enormous amount 
of work he has to deal with and to his present day 
methods of training is not too well qualified to judge, 
but a stimulus to thought and energy for the artist, 
that the architect may gather round him a band of 
men working eagerly in close co-operation with him 
for the glorification of his buildings and so inci¬ 
dentally, of course, for the enhancement of his fame. 
FIGURE 14 
CHICAGO’S NEWEST HOTEL 
plans for the great addition to the Audi- 
torium Annex in Chicago — which on com¬ 
pletion will be rechristened, with the Auditorium, 
“Congress Hotel and Annex”—provide a hostelry 
w ith 2,000 rooms, and representative of an outlay 
of about ^14,000,000. The addition is to be similar 
to the present structures—a huge, many-windowed 
box, massive at the base, but, in the addition, 
weakened above by serried ranks of bay windows. 
It will be, that is to say, neither particularly credit¬ 
able nor impressive in itself; while yet making a 
very remarkable and vital part of the lake-front 
development, which promises in a few years more 
to be one of the fine civic achievements of the 
country. And there is this to be said for the hotel: 
In its fourteen stories and its long facade, it will 
set up a wall that, as far as it goes, will screen in 
orderly, dignified fashion the vast, ugly city behind. 
Thanks to the angle of vision, hardly a skyscraper 
will show behind it, and we shall have, what is sel¬ 
dom had in American towns, a water-front, beautiful 
in foreground and harmonious and comparatively 
restrained at back. As to the hotel’s interior, 
the present features—the classic corridor of white 
marble and the Pompeian room—are to be retained, 
with extensions; while cosmopolitanism is to have 
its customary emphasis in a Louis Ouatorze ban¬ 
quet hall, a Japanese tea room, and an Elizabethan 
lounging room. It is no mere figure of speech that the 
modern hotel is a world in itself! The thought of a 
home and a haven has been forgotten, and we travel 
most furiously while we pause .—Architectural Record. 
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