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SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1920

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Elizabethan age, and desires to know how people lived in these spacious times," he may read various books, which deal, chiefly or incidentally, with the subject; he may visit mu seums, and also certain buildings W. H. Helen writes to the editor which date from that age, but which of The Times as follows: At this are filled with a mixture of the Eng- moment, when the urgent question every age up to the present. But he! lish or French furniture of nearly of building new houses is so much cannot go to a particular house which,į before the public, it is of special externally and internally, may claim importance that the priceless value to represent, with tolerable accuracy, of many old domestic buildings the period he wishes to know more should be generally appreciated. An intimately in its material aspects.. eloquent appeal has already been

On the principle of providing for made in your columns for restraint" the greatest happiness of the in the clearing away of old cottages. greatest number" of persons likely But the larger dwelling houses of to be interested in such old buildings, our forefathers are being pulled London should, wherever possible, down, or ruthlessly reconstructed be chosen to provide the typical; one after another, and some of the house. finest of English manor-houses and examples of the best kinds are to be But such possibilities, if "halls" have been more fully trans turned to account, are only to be vision of those exquisite harmonies,

Rheims. mogrifed than even Bottom himself, found in London for the last three as the sunlight shute through into The memory of a firet. Whatever may be the qualities of centuries. Earlier than that, al the shadowy cathedral, must be present day or future design in house- though partial examples of the building, the importance of preserving domestic architecture of

YOUR BLOOD WANTS among the purifying influences in. some typical examples of the demes preceding centuries can be seen in many a mind. Yet there are tic architecture of past ages must be the metropolitan area, adequate countless minds well educated in the evident to most people whose specimens must usually be found whom such a vision is of no account, common meaning of the term, to imagination is not atrophied by outside its borders: in every case is not indeed a vision at all, but a disuse. If the touchstone of value is the example finally selected should. pecuniary profit, then, no doubt, be so situated that the visitor might and of the white races only, and mere "sight". To speak generally there is little use in preserving old get there and back from any part mindful of innumerable exceptions, things except for the purpose of sell-of London in the day, and bave it may be said that while eightseeing ing them to aesthetic or sentimental sume hours to spend in the house is more especially a Teutonic charac cranks. I assume that there are he had come out to see.

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some thousands of men and women Surely it is worth while, even in in these islands, as well

as in these days of stress and of enforced our Colonies, in America, andthrift, while we are piling up enorm generally throughout the civilised ous debts, for payisent by future true appreciation of the past, as also It is vision that makes possible the world, for whom the study of history generations, that we should also, as is not wholly confined to wars, far as we can, secure for them the the understanding of the future. diplomacy, and politics. How our means of obtaining that personal Visionary" is a term of contempt forebears of whatever social position acquaintance with the environment more used in England and America and every one of us had ancestry and the craftsmanship of past ordinary Anglo Saxon believes, like

than elsewhere, in cottage and in mansion, in povery generations, in relation to their daily his discredited cousin the modern and in wealth-lived, throughout the lives, which we ourselves have so Teaton, in material gain as the ages, has always been a fascinating far (if in a rapidly diminishing touchstone of the "worth having" in subject of inquiry to most people of field) parily been able to enjoy life. general education, and yet there are in no way, I believe, can such. perhaps few subiects of past history heritage be better preserved and Latin races possess in a higher share concerning which most of us have so handed on than by the plan which is with their temperament. That last than ourselves is closely connected little oppmtunity of informing cur here suggested. It would, I am con selves without an amount of personal vinced, be worth a good deal of is a much-abused word, and is often research which is Impossible to trouble on the part of the official called up to excuse a good deal in nearly all who work for their living leaders of the Stats to ensure that, in modern Ble which, finds itself in My object in writing to you is to future years The Norman House." need of explanation. But for all, advorate the selection and preserva The House of the Wars of the temperament is one of the most tion of a certain number of houses, Roses," "The Tudor House," dangerous of human each of which shall be an original" The Restoration House, shall be Lacking it, we an permanently, qualities. example of a particular period in as familiar in guide books as the aginative faculty. The sense of hopelessly, crippled in our im our history, shall be furnished, as British Museum or Warwick Castle beauty in architecture, arulpture, far as is posible, with original now is, and shall do more than and painting (which has made Paris examples of the furniture of its own museums or the showplaces of to as much le capital of the world in age only, and shall be maintained as day can do to awaken the imagina art as Lomor, has been the capital a national presession. In the casetion and quicken the vasion of intel in commerce or Now Tik In AVAILABLE Norman to Tudor at least, it would,

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