Show architectural ART nineteenth century experiments and E rivals which nave been the lest that can be said of the architecture of the nineteenth century is that it has been an architecture of exceptionally learned ingenious and accomplished individualities it has been an arfert experiments which have failed and ol 01 revivals which have been fruitless these individualities with their con highly educated and trained have been embarrassed rather than aided by their knowledge of the great achievements of the past it does not seem to have occurred to them to appeal to the sympathies of the people by uttering their inspirations in the vulgar tongue but they have labored with immense talent and ingenuity to interpret and apply dead languages their efforts have been reminiscent excursive and experimental the architects have analyzed theorized disputed and argued they have formed schools conserving classic or romantic traditions schools which have fallen apart because progress has been found to be impossible on merely archaeological lines many of the individual bics tics developed these conditions have been brilliant and powerful and have had a great following of lesser men As the century has advanced certain of these havo been inspired bv nobler and loftier motives the architecture of the century because it has been nourished in the same soil that produced the electric telegraph the telephone and all the other triumphs of industrial art has exhibited a certain sporadic vitality haa thrown out mighty branches full of the possibilities of a great tion but because it has not enjoyed the advantage of concentrated effort it has not flowered as it flowered in tho thirteenth and sixteenth centuries still less as it flowered in the ages of pericles and augustus henry van brunt in atlantic |