Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-31
Architectural Taste.
THE DARK-RED BRICK FRONTS SUPPLANTING
BROWESTONR.

bhOWNSTON6s
the height Of the wealthy New Workers. ambi-
ton. The newest and handsomest mansion Of
prick Which IS Sy tue Ss
In rich, fanciful and harmonious colors, and
also with copings OF stone OF reddish brown
tint, more or less curved in geometrical lines.
are laid up In plain brick; and after their COL
ored mortar Is dry, they are carved en- masse In
foliated patterns, battlemented suggestions, In
intagl1o volutes, finals, festOons, foils catha-
nne-wheels, sections Of clustered columns can
talevers, shallow arcadeS, horlated freezes, etc.
Abiding to this change OF architectural taste,
New York letter In the Chicago Times says:
After years Of time and millions Of money
have been spent In erecting block after block Of
semble each other that they suggest hospital
wards, war like defenSes, or other similarly dis
agreeable objects, everybody now desires to
altc s unlike that Of all his neighSors and
acquaintance. The brown-stone house which
was once with featureless front, suddenly bursts
forth tSs spp1g with oreI
by three handsomely carved consoles. bow
window, or, perhaps, row OF them, one above
the other, from basement to root, and a dormer
at the top Of them all. suddenly leaps out Of the
front OF sober-visaged mansion, with richly
ornamental glass inserted in the upper part OF
the sashes above the first story, and In the
lower sash upon the first floor. gable fire.
quently rises into beautifully pr0portioned
and prettily ornamented point In the center
front OF houses which were not originally too
tall for this graceful addition.
The fortunate pOSsesSOr of plain residence
that stands upon street corner builds out
from the angle OF the two upper chambers q
circular ornament, which opens through mar
row arch from the apartments to which they
cling. Each room has three lane-like or bar
bacan windows, and he surmountS this pretty
addition with q tall conical or an extinguisher
roof, which rises prOp0rt1Onately above the
plain housetops and quite flies away with ones
memory into dear old delightful Brittany
Possibly the HORSEPOWER chooses the early
inane mansion. The supports of this turret are
another ornameEtation. The addition of these
little circular rooms to house provides a
pretty space, which Is lined with foliage and
poisoning plants, behind which beauty may
peep forth unseen upon the world.
so dissatisfied are the rich with the archttec-
tural appearance OF our Streets and especially
mat there Is more tearing down of really SUBJ
stantial, costly and recently erected mansions
gong on at this moment In New York than any
one could DE made to believe by written testi-
mony. TWO OF the most spacious houses, which
were richly trimmed inter1orly and handsomely
proport1oned exteriorly, and which have almost
gr grace On avenue and 51th street are being
novelty in architecture. 1t Is for one of his
family, and perhaps for himself This residence
Is Isl, to be built OF brick, and doubtless our eyes
unique to New York, If not to the world An
entire block Just below the corner, which is
being despOtled OF a too plain SubStant1ality is
being built up with rich buildings for the use of
thls same family OF railway potentates.
WHO WROTE "WUTHERING HKrGHrs?n-Mr
Grumpy states, and we have no doubt that his
memory Is perfectly correct, that Patrick
BronIe told MIN that he wrote great portion
OF Wuther1ng Heights" ana that he Inferred
that tne whole plot was Patrick's. It is to be
nORed tnat no critics OF the sensational school
statement. That the great and tra~Ic novel I'm In
question was the work Of one single writer and
That that writer was the same passionate and
Titanic genius who wrote the poems signed nv
Emily Br0nte, no sane critic can for a mnment
DOUBT, nor should we waver IL a hundred assnv
erat1Ons to the contrary were forthcom
Ing. 1t would have been impossible for the
weak and vicious Patrick, with all his yersatili-
ty, and his flashes OF briliiance, to write those
successive scenes OF Concentrated force
Emily Bronte constructs her sonorotis romance
"Wutner1ng Heights" was as much the out.
come OF her noble genius as the wretched verses
MI. Grun0y quotes are characteristic of her
DfOther'S Feeble and fiuctuattng talent His
statement That he wrote the greater horizon of
,'Wulner1ng Heights" will be Instantly re-
Jected by any one who considers the purely
CONGREGATIONAL and social nature Of his gifts,
ana the sullen integrity OF Emlly's character'
She would not have endured for a moment To he
called the author OF q book which She knew
she had no claim to consider hers The oniv
trace that Patrick BrOnte has left In literature
u Is 10 De feared, must be looked for in the
gloomy pages OF his sister Anne's study in
alcoholic pathology.-(TAs Atheneun.
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