The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-14

I lahors % architecture and the sp3ls =
I Italy ana Greece which are now seat
| tered from Iuverary o. Wilton. were oc-
! cumll,ted Ia a few strsets between Mary
Y lebon and Westminster IL one in four
| Of these great houses stood on the area
| which Glhhon SUGGESTS London would
not only be- cly % palaces bur %
I palaces not less MAGNIFICENT and more
richly stored eith tae triumphs OF the
7 brush ana ths ehtssi than those 81 TIE
! towns OF moicfn Italy. ~ al the paiat-
I nrs Boz Paris and Florence were destroyed
I there would stIl, be- enough IN the English
Z country houses 10 present : full and
I brilliant sequence ~ The triumph 90 Con-
I uueutal ART The best work of the English
I school the eVtr-iurfeasiug money value
I Of which is rough test of Us worth. b.
I found nowhere else %iue-teuths OF the
paintings of GaiasHoroush Romney anu
I Sir Joshua REYNOLDS. Crome ard Turner
are on the walls mere sample ~ their
I store % English paintings shown az Paris
I This wear astbuished Continental visitors
I whose Acquaintance wIt1 this class OF
paintings is limited a. most 20 few
I rooms boz the National Gallery. But one
I collection Ia q town. sucn as that at
+ HEREFORD House mokcs more stir than So
/ scattered IN as many park-set country
houses. just as abroad che collections in
I one OF TWO Dutch private houses az The
/ Hague or Amsterdam are better known
I thau the contents 81 the Escural among
its granite hills
What j. least appreciated about the
great country homes T. the quality o. the
| houses themselves Their significance as
| storehousea 10 art hos been ackuowl-
/ edged not fully realized But they have
never had due honor as works Of the
architect and builder Whatever the
I changes In taste and style. the builders
I have never fallen short % the highest
I standard Of material and work. II Is 10
injustice 70 the construction Of the Eliza
Z iethau era 10 say that there has been a
steady impfovencni In ans respect In the
4 structural excellence of the country
I palaces II the trst and second magnitude
I since the DAYS when the owners OF Hat
aeld and Aud.ev Erd looked through the
Z rlans submitted 10 them The frank ado9-
lion Of the Tudor Renaissance. demanded
and received a e3lidity ana m1esiyeness
which he early build.ugs did not need.
The iokes mad. at VanhruEh's expense
were. perhaps. tueflaea nv the ponderous
7 look az his work hut there arc some thres
bundre5 italian r.lates stone without
/ ,rd e,o,,c ana marble within which would
st.nb oven ~ rooaes4 Tor n thousand
I years a. evidence az tho thorouehness OF
7 the work nut into them
p,,uatrgs IKE ro,irttcn or stowe. or
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IN. ,,st STONE nurrias Cost has never
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