But what most appealed to me was the superb western façade of the Cathedral.

The Via de' Fossi will bring us again to the Piazza Goldoni and the Arno, and a few yards farther along there is a palace to be seen, the Corsini, the only palazzo still inhabited by its family to which strangers are admittedthe long low white façade with statues on the top and a large courtyard, on the Lungarno Corsini, just after the Piazza Goldoni.

It has a handsome Greco-Roman façade in striking' contrast with the Gothic architecture of the cathedral, which stands upon the same plaza (see p. 73, note 2).]

Giotto designed his Campanile primarily for the bells that were to summon the Florentines to their cathedral; the Venetians wanted façades for their palaces, and made façades to delight their eyes; the Japanese have wanted small furniture for their small rooms, and have developed wonderful skill and taste in designing it.

"Would have to reduce work on front façade to putting in new arched entrance.

The architect, Mr. Soane, has adapted the façade from the Temple of Jupiter Stator, at Rome.

A Ricordo dated March 10 gives a brief account of the last four years, winding up with the notice that "Pope Leo, perhaps because he wants to get the façade at S. Lorenzo finished quicker than according to the contract made with me, and I also consenting thereto, sets me free ... and so he leaves me at liberty, under no obligation of accounting to any one for anything which I have had to do with him or others upon his account."

From the Merinid hill we had noticed a long façade among the cypresses and fruit-trees of Eldjid.

"On the arrival of the firemen they used every effort to prevent the fire communicating itself to the apartments of the Princess Clothilde; it had already reached the façade on the side of the Place.

Not a drop of rain fell in the river; the immense façade opposite them was as dry as a skull; yet here was this muddy cataract.

I next threw open a little green lattice-door in the façade under the shaknisier, and entered.

She looked up at the great, clean, many-windowed façade above them, towering, even above the huge bulk of the gas-tanks across the street, and her dark eyes kindled.

The present church of S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Strada Giulia is the work of Giacomo della Porta, with a façade by Alessandro Galilei.

This cloistered plan, where all the effect is reserved for the interior façades about the court, lends itself to a delicacy of detail that would be inappropriate on a street-front; and the medersas of Fez are endlessly varied in their fanciful but never exuberant decoration.

Perhaps our critic would have preferred a façade like that of the Palais de Justice at Paris,a platform, ascended by an immense flight of steps, which serves as a basement for a projecting body of four Doric columns; with four large pedestals in front, and statues of Strength, Plenty, Justice, and Prudence, as the cardinal virtues of English legislation and trade.