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[Illustration: St. Philip's is the more beautiful for the open space
before it, and the graceful outward bend of Church Street in deference
to the projecting portico]
[Illustration: Or, opposite St. Philip's, a perfect example of the rude
architecture of an old French village; stucco walls, tinted and chipped,
red tile roofs and all]
[Illustration: In the doorway and gates of the Smyth house, in Legare
Street, I was struck with a Venetian suggestion]
[Illustration: Nor is the Charleston background a mere arras of
recollection. It exists everywhere in the wood and brick and stone of
ancient and beautiful buildings, in iron grilles and balconies
unrivalled in any other American city....]
[Illustration: Charleston has a stronger, deeper-rooted city entity than
all the cities of the middle west rolled into one]
[Illustration: The interior is the oldest looking thing in the United
States--Goose Creek Church]
[Illustration: A reminder of the Chicago River--Atlanta]
[Illustration: With the whole Metropolitan Orchestra playing dance music
all night long]
[Illustration: The office buildings are city office buildings, and are
sufficiently numerous to look very much at home]
[Illustration: The negro roof-garden, Odd Fellows' Building, Atlanta]
[Illustration: I was never so conscious, as at the time of our visit to
the Burge plantation, of the superlative soft sweetness of the spring]
[Illustration: The planters cease their work]
[Illustration: Birmingham--The thin veil of smoke from far-off iron
furnaces softens the city's serrated outlines]
[Illustration: Birmingham practices unremittingly the pestilential habit
of "cutting in" at dances]
[Illustration: Gigantic movements and mutations, Niagara-like noises,
great bursts of flame like fallen fragments from the sun]
[Illustration: A shaggy, unshaven, rawboned man, gray-haired and
collarless, sat near the window and uttered convincing imitations of the
sounds made by chickens, roosters, pigs, goats and crows]
[Illustration: Gaze upon the character called Daniel Voorhees Pike!
Observe the manliness with which he thrusts his pink little hands deep
in the pockets of his--or somebody's--pantaloons!]
[Illustration: The houses were full of the suggestion of an easy-going
home life and an informal hospitality.
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