Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 — John Shaqi
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878Various
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878
Various
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- Periodicals
of Spain with nondescript ornaments, the bulbous domes and pinnacles
supporting the flags of yellow and red--of barbaric taste, color and
significance.
We have yet to notice the Italian villa, the Oriental mosque, the
Swiss chalet and the log hut; also the modern pavilion with zinc
roof, the thatched houses of Britain and of Normandy, the Elizabethan
cottage and the English farm-house. What they lack in size they make
up in variety, may be said of the greenhouses and conservatories
dotted about the place. In and outside of them the marvellous
skill and patience of the gardener is seen in the rigidly-formal or
abnormally-directed limbs of the fruit trees. The fish-ponds and
fountains are neither numerous nor large, but the aquarium may merit
more extended description when completed.
Standing, sensible-looking and tasteful, in the midst of much that is
trumpery, but good enough for a summer fete, and placed here not as
exhibits of good taste, but of what their owners think good, rises the
wooden building with skylight roof of "The Administration of Forests
and Waters." It is on a beautiful knoll, and has a wooden frame with
tongued and grooved panels, the whole varnished to show the natural
grain of the timber. On the panels outside are arranged the tools and
implements of arboriculture and forestry.
The flags of the different nations displayed upon these buildings give
animation to the scene, and the glance might pass at once from this
panorama to the other side of the Seine, where the scene is repeated,
but for the intervention of long barnlike sheds with tile roofs which
intrude themselves along the banks of the river, and quench the poetry
of the fanciful and picturesque as the eye passes from the immediate
foreground and seeks the magnificent facade of the Salle d'Iena, the
river front of the main building occupying the Champ de Mars. The
flags of all nations are flying from the numerous minor pinnacles,
while the six domes on the ends and centres of the east and west
facades display the tricolor of France.
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