House 6? Garden 
THE PALMER MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN 
DETROIT 
the admission of 
commonplace 
work, the pres-® 
ence of living 
water will almost 
invariably for¬ 
ward the general 
effect of a monu¬ 
ment. 
As music, 
judiciously 
i n t e r polated, 
raises the vitality 
and appeal of a 
spoken drama, 
so does moving 
water, bearing 
proper relation 
to the static 
formsofadjacent 
monuments or 
buildings, en¬ 
hance and help to communicate their charac¬ 
teristic qualities. This factor of water in 
motion, embodying and suggesting life, has 
been relied upon, in many a famous monu¬ 
ment, to enforce 
the impact of an 
art work upon 
the senses, to 
attract, charm, 
fascinate. 
Whole cities 
were known, 
even before Ro¬ 
man times, for 
their ornamental 
use of water. 
Samarcand, “the 
ineffable,” was 
one of them, 
and, as Vambery 
records, it was 
the queen city 
of all the basin 
of the Oxus, 
reaching, under 
Tamerlane, the 
height of its splendor. “ The Mohamme¬ 
dans had a thousand poetic expressions in 
praise of its wealth, its abundance of water, 
its innumerable canals, fed from mountain 
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THE PLAN OF THE PALMER MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN 
