American Architect and Architecture Volume 68 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...be blamed for making their rooms low, if the law will not permit them to be higher, nor can the law be criticised for the restrictions which it imposes, and which are, in general, salutary. GREAT deal of interest has been excited by the discovery at Ephesus of an inscription, cut over the door of an ancient palace, and containing, in substance, the same words as certain Syrian documents, dated in the year 200 A. D. and purporting to be copies of a correspondence between Christ and Agrippa, the ruler of Edessa. The inscription at Ephesus is believed to date from the fifth century. The correspondence is of an unimportant character, the letter purporting to have been written by Agrippa being simply a request to the famous worker of miracles to come to Edessa and cure him; while the reply simply pleads lack of time to comply with the request, and promises that, after His ascension, one of His disciples shall make the visit requested. That such a correspondence was believed in antiquity to have existed is known, but the fact that a legend concerning Christ dates back to the fifth century, or even to the second, is no proof of the historical truth of the legend. On the contrary, the early centuries of the Christian era were prolific of romantic stories about the Crucified Prophet of Jerusalem, and it would not be strange to find some of them preserved in inscriptions really ancient. Some experts, however, refuse to believe, without further evidence, that the Ephesian inscription is genuine, saying that frauds of this sort are very frequently practised in the East, and elsewhere. HE official order in regard to photographing at the Paris Exposition has been issued. Hand-cameras may be used at pleasure during the entire time that the Exposition is open to the public...