A CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED AND AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.(Review) American Scholar | June 22, 1999| | COPYRIGHT 1999 Phi Beta Kappa Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

A CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE: FREDERICIK LAW OLMSTED AND AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY By Witold Rybczynski. Scribner: $28.

On March 25, 1893, five weeks before the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a remarkable group of artists and dignitaries gathered in the Concert Hall at Madison Square Garden for a dinner to honor Daniel Burnham, the Chicago architect who had served as impresario of the fair's design and construction. Burnham had assembled so illustrious a team of architects and others for the project that after one of their planning ...

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