Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-24

ted with direct and immediate utIlitr.
 One of the groups !n this exhibition is
 conuectei Rish the building trade.
 Buildings are many, various and large
 Every member of each of~These trades
 may rise to be himself builder. and if
 he has brstns adequate to the work be
 may rise 10 be an architect Why is it
 that architecture is placsd among the
 fine arisf The question is worth sskgpy
 and worth answering. IL Is bscsuss. al
 though different from painting and
 sculpture in It's closs association with
 immediate utitity, the results of that srt
 are among the noblsst and grsudest
 things in the world. What is .here Iu
 this country nobler than cur eathedrAls,
 which draw from America her most dis
 tinguished sons to make cathedral tours
 in England, going from one cathedral to
 another and feeding their hearts and
 souls upon all the great conceptions they
 suggest and upon the contemplation of
 those noble monuments of genius and
 devotion which they embodyl A very
 distinguished writer, Nine. de Stasl, in de-
 scrihing St. Peters, uses an extraordinary
 expression, which sounds little exsggers-
 ted, but in my opinion is not exsggera-
 ton. She says: "The mind of an intel
 ligent person cannot fail to receive from
 the interior of St. Pster's the suggestion Nuat hL1L1 "A cannot DC merely 6L- man, but must be Euperhuman." The road for the builders of this country to become architects is en open road. They want gifts, which msny of them possess They want more diligence and fortitude, but 1t is sn open road. Architecture is sn art in which ve may learn lessons from the past. There is this great peeul!srity in the re- mains of early Christian architecture. In those reme'Gs besuty is not supplementary and occasional, but uniform and invaria- Die. am not nc speak'ng uf the works which were produced in the later middle Hges, but of thcse works which present most of sll the ctarsc..r of simplicity ss their main characteristic, If yo1 travel in Ireland on Do account fril to eXan,Ine the Gien3alough churches I do no. suSnsss
 there Is one of those churches which ie fifty feet long. 4ou might build any one
 of them for fire h2rd-ed pounds But every line of every one If thses churches
 is Instinct with beauty, which the rudesI
 and most uututored can hardly fsil to rec ognizs. There is Q etrcumstsocs in archi- lecture which terI:des me, snd that is the | tendency which appears to prevail in mod ern domestic architecture. I am speaking ! of their extsTiors, end I refer to their re | dundant ornamentsticn- Thsre Are s | great number of new buildings in London Il hope l am rot t-sAdIny un any oEs's toes-Eith regard to which, If You look at | tin. D, you Will find that the architect had | either 6 horror or a dread cf leaving bare
 8 single square foot of wEil, as If there | were something tndrcent in leaving bare A | square foot of wall. Why do yen noi ! wage a war against tdts excess of ornA- \ meutsiioaf Excess uf Uraar1eutA.ion is of all things :he most hoEtils to s due sp- | preciasion of proportion, because 1t is in | proportion to the perception of breadth | and beauty and ilne. and in the a3i1st- II msut of lines 10 ore smother that the Ea. senee Of the art Yes, and iB inst you will find the hops Of attaining high e1oea!rrce \ In great wOrke- l will go one step fur. ther; l will mention to you the case of the exterior of Salisbury cathedral. The man | who wants 10 know what Is beauty h
 stone, beauty not pTo5zocd by ornaments Il ton. should visit Salisbury, for there he II will see less ornaEasutaiion un inc Extelsag | of the building than h any cathedral, aud
 l believe in a great many domestic hCuses in London Bat if sUa want tO see what can be done by simple beauty of outline, \ which is the fonniAttun If a!l hsauty, take | a look st the exterior of Salisbury cathe- drai. IL is a model for al! sgfs aud for sl | countries.