New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16

an enclosure whose spirit IS that OF meditation
among flowers and the fruits of the earth. Miss
Longman's Fountain of Ceres is Greek rather
than Roman in sentiment lovely figure, set
upon a pedestal with a shallow base. The waters
of this fountain are on level with the floor of
the court Around it spacious lawns. In the
Court Of the Universe is aware of busy life
and movement Here calm prevails and its gra-
cious rote is expressed not only in the linear SIM
plicity of the whole design but in the delicacy of
the decoration.
THE COURT OF THE FOUR SEASONS IS
ARCHITECTURE POETIZED.
The architectural details are fine; they
studied In the four recessed fountains which lie
behind pillared screens, open to the heavens,
around the circular end of the court Mr. PicirrlTs
clever statues are placed against walls unadorned
save where vines fall like fragmentary wells from
modest apertures and from the attic. At this
circular end there is still pool fringed by
hedge The hedge is tall but it only serves to
touch with added grace the reflection Of the
architecture in the CLASSY water Slender trees
planted against the walls at judicously chosen
points heighten the pastoral illusion. The Court
of the Four Seasons is instance In the fair
Of architecture poetized. II is distinct creation
court with an unmstakable, very personal
physioRnomy.
That Is also in a different way, the merit OF
the corresponding court at the other end Of the
fair the last of the three great courts, Mr. Null
gardt's Court Of Abundance. He told the
other day that he had drawn all the full size
details himself matter which architects
pecally will appreciate. The work has the quail
ity OF design thus ardently developed. II de-
notes a complete departure from the Roman and
Italian precedents to which ! have thus far had
so often 10 refer. The style is at bottom Span
ish Gothic, but you feel in II, vaguely, the in
fuences Of old Portugal and OF the older East.
At first blush one is not quite sure OF II; the
ornamentation seems almost too rich, threatening
10 be heavy and forid One thinks OF goldsmth's
work rather than Of architecture, OF the crafts
man rather than the artist, and even after the
first impresson-as Of something a little over
done-has worn off you are fain TO regard this
court S a somewhat dangerous tour de force.
But what you to do about tour de force
that is a success? Why worry about danger
that has been audaciously evaded?
THE COURT OF ABUNDANCE A sENsUoUs
ADVENTURE.
Only pedsnt could disparage Mr. Mullgardts
exotic Juror. Il has produced court that IS
startling and even. II you like, bizarre but 1t
has. incidentally, made court that is warmly
Economically beautiful. do not rest upon It's
multitudnous details with the limpid emotional
pleasure that get out Mr.. Baeon's Greek rehne-
ment, or with the robust stimulus that springs
from the Roman materialism in the Court OF the
Universe; but | feel in the presence OF Mr.. Null
gardts work that | have come upon sehsuou'
adventure upon a moment OF oriental ViVidhess
and mystery. At night il is enhancing, the sort
Of thing that Bedford might have put into
"vathek" Much symbolism is involved in It's
plastic decoration, eliminating in the statuary OF