The book of the fair : an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893 ... (1893)
xing the standard of excellence in the nineteenth century, as did priests and worshippers in the fifteenth. Thus it is that progress has been rather m aiiistit piocesses than in art itself; for here is a branch in which new modes of treatment are being coo¬ mb _ ~ stantly evolved to keep pace with… … dor which if set forth in marble and bronze might recall the era of Augustus or Nero.’’ But however just mav be this remark, it does not apply to all the buildings, and especially to the temple of fine arts, a gem of the purest water, and reproducing in its graceful outlines the chaste and classic…
