Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-24
,-v of THE HUNDRED GATES.

creat Temple of Thebes would hoio fhe oi Four Notre Danes.
 nv ease the ordinary tourist is
 ,alv enough to emerge from the tenn Rhs af Karnak stnpefed by that mere
 le 4soes oa of scale, those Titanic propor- of architecture which ranked it t'on9 a,ro when 1t was intact or nearly
 sd which rank it to-day, when it
 rnip. among the wonders of the
 or8 It is not the mere area of the
 .igbtv building which expresses one, aa T ss,ab four cathedra!s of Notre Dame on1d oo it is said. into the Hypostyle sa1l Nor is 1t merely the altitude to
 abicb the towering columns mount,
 their enormous gir6h, or their ss,ost.lilxe array. You think of those 4pge pillars that lose them .slpes in the upper gloom at Seville, nd of the endlessly intersecting srenues of the Mosque of Cordoya, and s,n feel that in these two points, at '6v rate. Karnak, if it be not exactly s;raled. is not so very far ahead. 1t is lbe astonishing successful combina- iion of all the widely differing archi- ssotnral effects which are severallyl sroduced by number, by size, by pIo-. nbrtion. by disposition, by the imperi- ,,,s influence of mass, and the winning anpeal of perspeetive-it is the cembi-, Nation of these into phalanX of forces ta be launched irresistibly against the .senses and the soul of the beholder Htl,at makes the great temple what it iS Those Atlantean columns, which were built, surely, to uphold the heayens themselves, and which seem VI bear up their enormous surmount- Inc monoliths as a giant would lift a Ishild, have no suggestion of unwieldi-. ,.ess in their colossal size, leave no. sense of exdess in their multitudinoust npmber. The calyx-capital into which each column blossoms would fake ten men to span it's monstrous girth; yet it opens out against the blbe Egyptian sky above it's roofiess head as lightly as if it were the finest iothic tracery above an English eathe- dral nave.
 Everywhere the feeling of absolute fitness, of perfect proportion redeems this majestic hall of the offense of |mere Brobdingnagerie; and whether fhe eye dwells upon the parts or sweeps the whole-whether it travels through the endless alleys of this forest of stone, and rests by turns upon base and shaft and fower-lil1e capital of it's columns, or pauses to pur- sue walls deep-graven with colossal gods and kings, and still glowing here and there with the undying colors of fonr thousand years. the artistic taste is alike satisfied. Sc admirable. in- deed, are the proportions of the whole that the stupendous bulk of its con- stituent parts is hardly realized. of their symmetry seems necessary 10 enable one to meas. ure it in all its full awfulness, as we do lthere, where one of these gigantic pill aars has fallen and bows it's hundreds pf tons of weight and the superincnm- bent burden of its huge plinth, dislo- rated and askeW, toward one of it's fel- lows. The cause Of this portentous no man knows; but the vague tradition that ascribes it to the conqueror CambYSes may be safely dis missed. No mortal hands, relying sole 3y ou the strength of human muscles and the only known forces of an age tAat knew not of ennpowder could eFer have done the work. of inchoate destruction which is above our heads. Aothing short of an earthquake could haFe thrust one of those tremendous plinths into the position of thlt oyer- hanging holror.-Eondon Telegraph.