The sun., 1913-10-26
So Says Writer Who Com
plains That Draughtsnen
in High City Buildings
Show Lack of Atmosphere
in Their Home Designs
English Architects Not
Hampered Like Americans.

We have no token that Edgar Allan
Poe ever dreamed tina, "The Raven"
"Annal,rl Lee. ~ lalume. ""rhe Bells" and
"The Haunted Palace" were the delicious
FRA gments of English literature they are
now regarded. says Joy Wheeler Dow in
building Progress He little imagined
that the MS Of the lines inscribed To Miss
Shew in return for few weeks board
and ministering would one day. be worth
several thousand dollars. enough to have
insured its author a confortabl" home Tor
lite Whatever the future Of his genius
was TO be- il does not appear to have in
terested Poe. who never tried to get his
fame discounted a. would one with a
legacy on chancerv He Thought his life
q failure because his business enterprises
had been As he expressed /, to a friend
he could not even pay his washerwor oman '
Neglect. however. affected his brilliant
contemporary in the field of music
Francois Chopin differently. although
Chopin's horizon was nearly IA sad and
despairful kpenlv alive to the utter
hopelessness Of the very stupid public
to whom he had to play, and seeing that
il might he a century before his work
could receive anything like just recogni-
tion. Chopin tried tn take vicarious
satisfa ction in an occasional scathing
Jest, whereby We are made aware that he
knew sonnet hing Of what his compost ions
should be worth to the world If We are
to believe George Sand. those master
pieces Of exquisite melody. called by
Chopin "Etudes- in mockerv Of the pub
lies mental limitations. are only one in
stance OF his disenchanted attitude toward
the audiences at Pleyels and ot her public
places where he felt obliged to give re-.
citals.
Krys-Kryngle Cottage will find favor
among architects. just as the Chopin
'Etudes- found favor with Mendelssohn.
Moscheles and Liszt. and just as The
Raven and THE Bells" found favor with
n. r. Willis and George p. Morris: but I
suppose many years must ella pse before
Il will he thought either very pretty or
dcsirab BILE by many people in America who
are more used to the familiar kind Of
cottage known as "a high class dwelling ="
say America. because there are many
architects in England architects such
a. +. l. Lutyens of London and " X.
DtulakS OIL lot VINO
design cottages in much the same style
of architecture. and whose success il,
already established. although | dare not
go as far as to say that they are entirely
appreciated by the majority of people
in their own land at the present time.
|, is exasperating to live in an age where
the market for ones wares. which the
future assures. is not yet come. to pro-
duce things that will not become popular
for another generation. II one could
only discount the later enthusiasm he is
10 receive. at say. only - cents on the
dollar a cinch for the loan sharks it
would I've something to buy a few animal
comforts a biscuit or a bun. and partially
reconcile one to horoscope like the trir-
keys. OF being stuffed with chestnuts after
we are dead Acknowledgements Ia
George AdeD
While Mr.. Lutyens and Mr. Bidlake are.
perhaps. the cleverest of my British con
tempOraries in cottage architecture there
ia a long list of others who are nearly a.