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90 90 AKCHITECTURE OF NORTHERN GERMANY. Part IL moulded into sha])es as elegant, and as artistic, as can be carved in stone; and the various colors -which it is easy to impart to bricks may be used to form mosaics of the most beautiful patterns; but to carry out all this with success requires a genuine love of art, and an energy in the prosecution of it, which will not easily be satisfied. Without this the facilities of brick architecture are such that it can be executed by the commonest workmen, and is best done in the least J i fr i t ^ • V ■• 533. Plan of Cathedral, Lubeck. (From Schlos.ser ;ui(l Tischbein. " Denkmale Lubeck.") Spale 100 ft. to 1 in. artistic forms. While this is the case, it requires a very strong feeling for art to induce any one to bestow thought where it is not needed, and to interrupt construction to seek for forms of beauty. In brick architecture, the best walls are those with the fewest breaks and projections, so that if relief and shadow are to l)e obtained, they must be added for their own sake; and more than this, walls may be built so thin that they must always appear weak as compared with stone walls, and depth of relief becomes almost impossible.