Many opinions have been expressed as to the best style of orel ture for the Imperial city. The school of thought which has pressed for the adoption of the Mogul style was encouraged in March last, before experts had been consulted, by the Viceroy's express sion of a personal inclination " towards an Oriental style of architect ture which should be in unison with Jocal surroundings and with climatic venditions.""
But full consideration bos has led to @ recognition that on many grounds it is neither practicable nor desirable to attempt: any reproduction of the style of those seventeenth-century builders who "designed like Titans and finished like jewellers."
The Mogul architecture, which reached its zenith in the thirty years of Shah Jahan's reign, an clined, was adapted to the barbaric splendour of medieval Eastern
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