AN ARCHITECTURAL PILGRIMAGE IN OLD MEXICO. By A. C. Bosom.
(New Work : Scribner.) Those who have been beguiled into the right frame of mind for the full appreciation of the Rococo by reading Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell's Southern Baroque Art will find Mr. Bossom's An Architectural Pilgrimage in Old Mexico a thoroughly inflammatory work. It is a picture book of excellent photographs with captions below them that suggest that the commentator has caught some of the exuberance of his subject. Mr. Bossom commends Mexican Baroque as a source of inspiration to his brother architects of America, and such is the enthusiasm of his short introduction that we shall certainly expect his next sky-scraper to bear witness to his faith. Beneath the photograph of a vast and very beautiful organ case is the following legend—nothing more. " The motif is here of many things that could be made use of in a hotel ballroom." We will take Mr. Bossom's word for it (he knows exactly what is acceptable in hotel ball- rooms), but it would have been of incidental interest to know where that great organ may be, who built it, and when. Presumably we must attribute our late ignorance of this engaging, informal, Mexican architecture to the remoteness of the country and its habitual revolutions—but we hope that now this rich vein has been struck it will be worked as thoroughly as it deserves.
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