[140] The Erechtheum was an exception.
[141] See Delphi, by Dr. Frederick Poulsen, p. 52. It is suggested that the Sacred Way was in existence before the shrines were built, and that its wanderings were necessitated by the gradients of the hillside. No sort of attempt, however, seems to have been made to correct this, or to treat it as an element of design.
[142] The Place Vendôme measures 450 ft. × 420 ft.; Grosvenor Square about 650 × 530; and Lincoln’s Inn Fields about 800 × 630, measured from wall to wall of buildings.
[143] Choisy, History of Architecture, vol. i, p. 298.
Transcriber’s Notes and Errata
Illustrations have been moved to the appropriate placed in the text.
The following typographical errors have been corrected.
| Page | Error | Correction |
| 218 | back | black |
| 424 | stedfast | steadfast |
The following words are found in hyphenated and unhyphenated forms in the text. The numbers of instances are given in parentheses.
| cuttle-fish (2) | cuttlefish (1) |
| fresh-water (1) | freshwater (1) |
| pre-occupation (4) | preoccupation (1) |
| preoccupations (1) | |
| re-arranging (1) | rearranging (1) |
| re-discovery (2) | rediscovery (3) |
| super-men (1) | supermen (1) |
| super-women (1) | superwomen (1) |
| text-book (5) | textbook (2) |
| text-books (2) | textbooks (3) |