Certainly, for the last ten years the outcries of literature in this direction have not been superfluous; art is beginning to disguise beneath its Floriated ornaments those ignoble facades of what are called in Paris "houses of product," which one of our poets has jocosely compared to chests of drawers.
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac
Another carving represents the Blessed Trinity under the figure of a single head with three faces within a wreath of oak-leaves with Floriated spandrels.
"Vanishing England"
P. H. Ditchfield
Over this back and over all that prostrate agony the enormous Floriated bronze rings that carried the lights of the concert-hall hung from the ceiling in frightful, festive decoration.
"A Journal of Impressions in Belgium"
May Sinclair