[Gutenberg 60034] • The Principles of Ornament

Excerpt from The Principles of Ornament

The power of abstracting and applying the beauties of floral form seems now to be entirely lost. The great art of the present day seems to consist in copy ing nature as exactly as it can be copied in hard materials to make a colourable imitation but in such a way that its highest beauties are lost.

Mr. Ward has added several illustrations which his experience shows him will be useful to students, and he has added an Appendix on the construction of some geometrical figures, and the methods of drawing conic sections and spirals.

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