Excerpt from A Walking Tour in NormandyOthers, when he inspects the cathedrals and churches of Normandy, and in doing so can realize the skill of the builders. But the main object of art is, by the general effect, to please the lay beholder, otherwise the work cannot be true to nature. For instance, the beautiful spire of the church of St. Pierre, at Caen, will rise up before the mental eye, in all its graceful proportions, years after it has been seen, and yet the visitor may not be able to give any technical description of the reason why it should gratify the beholder more than any ordinary church spine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.