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15s.) a most fascinating volume. For the great architect, who is also an admirable writer, here records impressions of tours in Southern France, Southern Germany, Austria and Sweden, comments freely on the well-known buildings, and draws attention to others which most people miss. For the most part Sir Reginald is concerned with architecture, and his descriptions and criticisms, as in Avignon or Nimes, Munich, or Vienna, are excellent reading. He does not share the new fashionable liking for Baroque—" at its lowest level almost incredibly vulgar," though he admits its technical skill. Nor does he join in the chorus of praise for Mr. Ostberg's Stockholm Town Hall ; for him it lacks balance and repose, and " seems to be the last word not in architecture but of that Arts and Crafts movement which started in England with William Morris."
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