such as surrounds the days of old Castile.

A mediaeval beauty and splendor bring longings for the pageants that
would add a world of interest.

There is a Graeco-Roman appeal in the long colonnades, the porticoes,
the fountains, the courts.

The Orient is strongly marked by the domes, the minaret suggestions, the
elephants, and minor details.

It is an Arabian-Nights-Tale - not a thousand and one nights, but two
hundred and eighty-eight.

Siena marble is used mainly at entrances and for pedestals. The
travertine is pinkish, grey and cream. Doorways in shadow are of lattice
green. Flag-poles are colored Spanish red. Lighting standards are green,
ochre, or eucalyptus blue. Banners are ochre and cadmium.

The world has never seen such an Occidental-Oriental harmony as in this
Exposition.

The traditions of the olden days are so strongly worked into these
palaces and courts that one feels more than he can tell when wandering
in this world of beauty; and we the laymen owe a debt of gratitude to
the architects, sculptors, painters, horticulturists, financiers,
engineers and the workmen who have given us this dream city of 1915.