ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Progressive Architecture in The Architectural Record, 1891-1925
by Mark Hammons

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Desmond, Harry W.  “By Way of Introduction.”  Vol. I, #1 [July-September, 1891], pp. 3-6.

Sets the critical tone for the publication.  “Art has only one revelation, but many forms.  Whether it be Poetry, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, the spirit that speaks is the same.  They make alike a similar demand upon us for truth, integrity of purpose, seriousness, nobility.  They are eminently aristocratic, not with the aristocratic spirit of a regime with its rise-Sir-Knight formula, but in the loftiness of the higher nobility whose allegiance is given to truth.”

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