Excerpt from The Architectural Record; April, 1902, Vol. 11: The Works of Ernest Flagg Omitting for a moment the personal factor, the explanation of both the initial opportunity and the subsequent success is to be found in the fact that Mr. Flagg brought to his task a very thorough preparation obtained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Mr. Flagg was fortunate in that he brought that particular train ing to this country at that particular moment, thus joining a small coterie of architects possessed of a professional equipment Similar to his own - men of the School whose work in the beginning of the Nineties was coming into style, that is coming to possess high commercial value. 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.