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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f his day. In Berlin there is a theatre, — unique of its kind, with stage in the centre,and an auditorium for winter use at one end and one for summer at theother, — designed by Titz ; at Carlsruhe, Stuttgart, and Strasburg there aretheatres and schools in the same style. The present Emperor has added manyschools throughout the empire, but they are of late German Renaissance. The public buildings of Germany and Belgium show few designs of interestin recent years ; the Parliament House at Berlin, by Wallot, and the Palais deJustice at Brussels, by Polaert, being colossal in mass and clumsy in detail.Many of the private houses designed in the Italian Renaissance Avere veryelegant and attractive, but within the past decade there has been a woefuldeterioration in the character of both surface and line — the grotesquereplacing the graceful. The villages built for their employees by Krupp, the gun manufacturer,and Stuinm, the maker of steel, are notable instances of the application of
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176 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY private capital to the improvement of the domestic conditions of the laboring class. In Austria, Vienna has developed wonderfully since the days of MariaTheresa. Hie classic Parliament House by Hansen, in L843, is one of the mostdelightful of its kind to be found anywhere ; Schmitts Gothic town-hall isinteresting, but cannot be said to be so successful in design ; the Votive Churchby lVistel, in L856 (also Gothic), the Opera House by Siccardsburg and Vander Null, with the City Theatre, an elaborate Renaissance structure, bySemper ami llasmauer. are all worthy of note. The V niversity with the twoMuseum buildings, facing each other upon a small park, ami other publicbuihiing-s and residences along the King Sfrasse, are extremely satisfactory,in spite of the fact that stucco.has been so extensively employed. Only a few years ago the municipality of Buda-Pesth offered immunityfrom taxation for fifteen years to all prospective builders, under

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