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Excerpt from Out-of-Door Memorials: Mausoleums, Tombs, Headstones, and All Forms of Mortuary Monuments IN our country. Memorials OF this nature have hitherto been largely commercial. Crude, uninteresting and completely DE void OF all artistic merit: IN other words common-place TO the last degree. Lacking not SO much, IT may be, IN beauty OF mater ial AS IN design. Hence people OF taste and discernment, from time TO time, have come TO us. And insisted upon our making designs and supervising their realization; fully recognizing that there are two qualities that every out-of-door memorial should. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.