The art reader, prepared for supplementary reading in public and private schools, with illustrations of some of the masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture (1905)
Quinn, Patrick Edward, 1862-1926 · Boston, A. W. Elson & co. · leaf 248
itecture is unsuited for civic buildings, suc-ceeded in presenting the nation with a noble monument, ofwhich it has been written:— The Palace of Westminster stands alone and match-less in Europe among the architectural monuments of thisbusy age. From the border of the Thames, from St. JamesPark or… … THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, LONDON 141 In his * History of Architecture, Fergusson, not a veryfriendly critic of Barrys methods, sums up, that it isperhaps the most successful attempt to apply mediaevalarchitecture to modern civic purposes which has yet beencarried out. Still another authority…
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