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...Detail, ornament, and decoration...
...Detail, ornament, and decoration...
...Hastings' subjects are: (1) The relation of life to style in Architecture; (2) How and where to begin a design; (3) The Orders in Composition: (4) Elevations and how to compose them; (5) Detail, Ornament and Decoration...
...events competed for by representatives only of the English speaking race but of the entire race. It is proposed that the prizes should be not money but some trophy from the nation or the race to the man, which he would ever after value and which might form an ornament to his country. The Prince of Wales has been interested in the proposed scheme and shortly the whole matter will be laid before a powerful committee in London, representing the whole Empire. The month of June has been chosen as the time fitted for holding the festival and London...
...daily journal unless the literature of a day's performance satisfies his ambition. The key note of the whole article is struck in the concluding sentences,- "Study, line distinction, the perfection of form, the fittest phrase, the labor limoe and the purgation from immaterialities of ornament or fac, and the putting of what we ought to say in the purest, simplest, and permanent form, - these are what our literature must have, and these are not qualities to be cultivated on the daily press. Of no pursuit can it be said more justly than of literature, that 'culture corrects the theory...