New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-18
THE TUDOR MANOR
A Superb Work on eng ''
Architecture.

THE pouEsrrc ARCHITECT KE 4r
ENGLNND DURING TIL ~ mo
PERIOD Illustrated IN sSfrsy,ngs OF
tographs and measured houses and
country mansions. man mani historical and
Ias'.r;,, po'i ,aY, hv Thomas Garner ana
Arthnr Stratton. In three 'GharIes
Folio. pp. xviii. &c, clXXx' '""'''
Scrihner's Sons.
THE MANOR HOUSES or EN.!i.AHNinI n.
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lpstrated by sydney Il Jot..
" 9lo Charles Scrihner '""''
ADVENTURES IN HOME MEM LStia;o5 ~ ii.
Robert ana Elizabeth Shackiei,o" syo
Illustrated with many photosrap,s ''
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Some little time has passed since we
welcomed the first and second volumes
Of Garner apd STATIONS noble WORK on
the domestic architecture of Tudor Eng
land. Now the third volume has APP
peared and the book is complete.
worthy monument to great theme
Great" is not perhaps precisely the cpl
tibet t. apply to the architecture OF tnls
period. TIE English builders of Eliza
beth's day labored often on consider
able scale without thought of emulatlng
the grand style they cared nothing FOR
the soaring romance of Gothic design,
and they cared very little for the classics.
Yet there is greatness in the mass Of
work illustrated i'm these volumes. the
greatness of pure national energy, cover
ing England with homes spacious and
stately if not majestic. These houses
express the very genius Of a people. its
honesty nd its strength.
Mr.. Stratton. who has carried out this
study following the plan of its origi-
nator. the late Thomas Garner. lays
stress upon the indigenou. nature of his
theme In the fifteenth and sixteenth
century domestic architecture of Eng
land he finds. beneath elements o. style.
the strong characteristic of his race,
which. to he sure. is of equal importance
with style. the mere love of home. This
comes out in the large and comfortable
features Of the typical plan and in the
restful simplicity which marks practi-
cally every one Of these edifices. inside
and out. Not much attention is paid to
symmetry for it's own sake, which is to
say for it's strictly artistic virtue FIRE.
dom, the natural organic
balance Of plan, determined by conven-
fence will bring about a corresponding
harmony in the facade. Wing answers
to wing. the two having the same
fenestration. and the roof line may be
broken with almost scholarly system by
dormer windows and heroic chimneys.
But the scholarship Is more apparent
than real The big Tudor house was. s
often as not. distinctly irregular af-
fair. getting itself extended through sue
ceeding generations. Sometimes it ram
hled Sometimes it positively SPRAYED.
Always il achieved certain virile dig
nifty. The alf-timherod house occa-
sionally took on certain light and
graceful picturesqueness the sheer
"back and white" vivacity of it's APP
pearance giving it a charm vaguely hint
ing of the South. notably Of the French
farm. The representative mansion set
before us in this book. however. has
weight with its picturesqueness, an at
mosphere of rude power.
Nature has. Of course done much for
its ACKNOWLEDGEMENT as part of the broad
spectacle presented by the English
countryside. Lawns and hedges thrive
in the British Islands as nowhere else in
the world and play with unique success
their part in the enhancement of archi-
tectural composition. Vines lovingly at
tach themselves to those old walls or
brick and stone and thrive prodigiously.
Turning over the superb Photographic
mates in this work. one reflects upon the
curious air worn by the old houses In
them. an air as of some natural growth,
So perfect is the unity established be-
tween the building and its surroundings.
Mr.. Stratton is an admirable editor. We
value the learning and the enthusiasm