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Show Haif-Way Work. We are, none of US', so good architects archi-tects as to be able to work habitually beneath our strength ; and yet there is not a building that I know of, lately late-ly raised, wherein It is not sufficiently evident that neither architect ' nor builder has done his best. It is the especial characteristic of modern work. All old work nearly has been hard work. It may be the hard work of children, of barbarians, of rustics; but it is always their utmost. Let us hav done with this kind of work at once; cast off every temptation to it; do not let us degrade ourselves voluntarily, volun-tarily, and then mutter and mourn over our shortcomings; let us confess our poverty or our parsimony, but not belle our human Intellect. It is not a question of doing more, but of doing better. Do not let us boss our roofa with wretched, half-worked, biiint-edged biiint-edged rosettes ; do not let us flank our gate with rigid imitations of medieval statuary. Such things are more insults in-sults to common sense, and only unfit us for feeling the nobility of their prototypes. pro-totypes. Euskln. |