Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942 · New York, Scribner's · leaf 178
ll blandishments. The great hall inside was just the same: an as-tonishing room, four hundred and thirty feet long,broken only by the columns and arches bearing thegreat tower, and roofed with a mass of oak tim-bering like an ancient and enormous ship turnedbottom up. Huge oaken beams rose against… … THE BURGHERS AND THEIR BUILDING 133 cottage; and this splendidly direct barn atYpres had a quality the Louvre could neverattain. Each panel of this colossal and almost in-terminable wall was destined for great historicalpictures, most of which had been completed, andthe effect was majestical in its…
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