The most signal achievement of the French genius in art has been the creation of Gothic archtecture ; and as the President of the Royal Academy reminded its students some years ago the cradle of that archtecture was the Royal Domain of Central France a region in which the Celtic blood of the Cymri was mingled with the Latin element derived from the Romans and with the Teutonic element fu [...] 231 of the tomb at Beni-Hassan the volutes of the Pillars noted in the sculpture of Khorasabad and Koyunjik the belshaped capitals of the pillars of the valley of the Nile would at once confirm this view. [...] Again by the reverse application of this method similar to the reversible chemcal reaction the Archaeologists by their study of Persian Architecture of the time of the Achaemenian kings the tomb of Darius at Nakash-i-Rustum the Chehil Minar or the Great Hall of Xeres have fixed some of the details of the parent stock flourishing in the valley of the Euphrates thus establishing a close affi [...] By the detection of the mineral palagonite in the variety of stone of which the cannon balls of Pratapaditya the illustrious king of Bengal now preserved in the Museum of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad were made it has been ascertained that the Bengali king of the 16th century quarried the Rajmehal hills for the manufacture of those cannon balls. [...] Is not the Pergamene School a precursor of the advent of the Roman art and the termination of the Greek School ? Monuments of handicraft often supply the connecting links found missing in the monuments of architecture and thus help the standardisation of the chronmetric scale.
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