Eden architecture rarely goes beyond its conven tional regularity, but the Eden Theatre exhibits an effective combination of Renaissance, Moorish, and Hindu. The windows, whether single or in triplets, have cusped heads and are enclosed in rectangular moulded frames. Towers not unlike Burmese pagodas terminate the structure upward.
The Palace of the a portion of the French exhibition-build ings of 1878, remains as one of the permanent sights of Paris; its twin towers, separated by a massive pavilion, make it a conspicuous object from many parts of the city.
The Emit' des at Marseilles is a favorable example of that painstaking, thoroughly well proportioned, but formal, style which we all know as modern French. There is at each end a bold entrance with bal cony over, the superstructure forming two pavilions framing in the series of large round-arched windows which light the principal hall. Between each pair of windows is a short column bearing a bust set in a niche.
Parisian the new streets of Paris adhere as a rule to the conventional French manner, and although stone is the material most affected in the facades, yet in some quarters there is evidence of a tendency to use brick, and even terra-cotta, and to depart somewhat from conventionality. In and near the Place Malesherbes much original
ity is exhibited, and this is also the case in the Place de Bitche, south of the Arc du Triomphe. Some of the buildings here are conceived in the Gothic spirit, but in a Gothic modified to suit modern needs. Colored tiles, pieces of faience, and red and yellow brick afford a pleasing con trast to the gray uniformity of Paris generally.
Seaside and Suburban piazza—that greatest of American additions to the comfort of a summer residence—has not yet reached French watering-places. The seaside buildings of Trouville and Deau ville are counterparts of Parisian houses; there is nothing distinctive about them. The Frenchman does not seem to possess the love of the country or of the picturesque which is common to the American and to the English man. When he goes to the seaside or to the country, he likes to take the city with him, and eats and sleeps in a city house. Trouville has an ex ception—a half-timbered house filled in with brick, with both gables and finely-carved details, a clever adaptation of the style of the sixteenth century.