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                                                                      	with a first in a window, between the nave and southern
                                                                      tower, the sections on No 195 fig 1 the part drawn at
                                                                      fall on abacus;  2. entire archivolt - not seen in
                                                                      drawing.  3 second order, tracery bar 4.  sub arch
                                                                      of archivolt (more accurate than in fig 2) being the part
                                                                      separating above in No 194.
	College at Edinburgh                                                  I need not insist on the clumsiness of the whole arrange-
Make two lower windows equal:  and each                               ment  The Italians never start a moulding out of a cavette
divided in half.                                                      in this way, it is a stage brick of the north: already
Now, how meaningless this is as well as                               in the way the mouldings run into one another, showing
ugly.  For who can possibly live in the                               the evil of flamboyant beginnings.
square room at top, lighted by a single                                The outer order of fig 2 is remarkably characteristic
slit, fit neither for bells nor[t] anything                           of the vulgar bead falling within the original angle.
else, and the pinnacles have not so much                              (as fig 1 opposite or even sometimes as narrow necked
as wreath corbles on them - mere finials                              as fig 2:  fig 2 in No 195 was drawn very carefully
                         No string courses.                            a break giving me good view of its narrow neck) which is
                                                                      characteristic of these northern stules,  How much finer
                                                                      the wall filled and quiet Italian mouldings - what a
                                                                      false energy in all this undercutting.  Compare the
                                                                      superb moulding of central door of San Ferm  of Verona
                                                                      p 24 w. Bit book, so admirably kept within simple lines;
                                                                      note its apex is a little less than at rt angles as drawn

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