The Taj Mehal.

Abstract

ON the plains of Agra and Oudh, where the Jumna sends her yellow waters seaward, there stands a building of marvellous beauty, a dream in marble, a structure so lofty in its snowy white splendor, that it would seem the heavens had opened their portals and dropped one of their mansions down to the earth. Unrivalled in design and workmanship stands this wonder of the world, defying all that art has ever produced, finding not in all the lands of the earth its equal. "The Moghuls designed like Titans and fin-