The aim of this work has been to sketch the various periods and styles of architecture with the broadest possible strokes, and to mention, with such brief characterization as seemed permissible or necessary, the most important works of each period or style. Extreme condensation in presenting the leading facts of architectural history has been necessary, and much that would rightiy claim place in a larger work has been omitted here. The danger was felt to be rather in the direction of too much detail than of too litde. While the book is intended primarily to meet o... the special requirements of the college student, those of the genrrj cral reader have not been lost sight of. The majority of the vtechnical terms used, are defined or explained in the context, and .the small remainder in a glossary at the end of the work. Ex tended criticism and minute description were out of the question, and discussion of controverted points has been in consequence as far as possible avoided. ;T he illustrations have been carefully prepared with a view to i elucidating the text, rather than for pictorial effect. With the exception of some fifteen cuts reproduced from Lubke sG eschichte derA rchitektur (by kind permission of Messrs. Seemann, fL eipzig), the illustrations are almost all entirely new.
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