Show r tb the e louis F fourteenth 0 r of india arrive i ve at a f fair a ir under in 0 order r t to 0 arr in accomplished ard of what w was as stand g during the decorative architecture architecture one must take lake into reign of sha shah jehan monuments the other consideration begun with the taj raj ot of agra having the mahal mabal and 1 the palace mosque which la Is or pearl restful from its appearance seemingly simplicity artful artfully y conceals of extreme deal of great beneath this ext exterior arlor a detail and elaborate studied proportion one enters it on when the broad court blinding dazzle day ll 11 has s the a bright nothing meets the tor for ot of a snowfield snow marble field and tile the deep blue sky eye but exceed tile the delicacy ot of could nothing or tint gradations color and sultie subtle irom the outer the eye penetrates when behind ot of shadow depths glare into the there but as in the taj the arches and the shadow 1 in this Is no darkness wall are clearly innermost details or of the tile the courts A visible fro irom in across fr rom orn the foi 01 tress rise the distance enort domes of t the he mus ilus three giedt of agra decorated decorate a mosque jid or chief bands of white while and red with zigzag ulso also Is 15 of shah Je lians this illis stone I 1 its his delhi on to when etc pass I 1 eign confronted by another we are capital chief buildings the of imposing series ot of the the remains and great fortress the inclosure the great within palaces and most stately largest mosque the mohammedan pile as a whole among further on at bleil edifices and rit religious ous find still another capital lahore we mid and another series of palaces and mosques of in the hill fortress another palace of shah Is yet mere inere 0 feet small one only 3 jehan but a the usual an ail as perched in length embattled embattle 1 I steep of an vury very verge 0 ile be houses might pleasure many otner tills this manat manaich ell added to the list for fol distributing stems to have talen taken pleasure in ol of himself over a vast extent territory an approximate idea of the prodigious number ot of al ballistic Listic monuments for which not northern thern india Is indebted to his splendid extravagance may be gained by supposing that louis XIV tor for instance after constructing versailles and its de dependencies cies had built the louvre luxembourg and other edifices ol of farls the or of different architectural epochs had then built himself another capital at london with citadels palaces cathedrals and still another at brussels and linked them all together by a chain chaill of smaller palaces and occasional retreats had not death Int erupted his ambition lie he would have built a pendant to the tal taj across the aununa and thrown a marble bridge over the river between them from Prom notes on indian art by edwin lord weeks in harpers magazine for |