[Our correspondent, by a delicate species of irony, fairly hits the newspapers, who 

 an- amply able to strike back, if so inclined. We must wait patiently for the public 

 to awaken to our topics ; that it is rapidly doinfj so is evident, in some cases from a 

 want of food, and in others from a love of the subject. There need be no fear that 

 our audience, though few, is "fitting," and numbers already a most intelligent and 

 progressive body of those who arc seeking in the true mode for useful and or- 

 namental knowledge. — Ed.] 



RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



The following article from RejUon^s Landscape Gardening will answer several in- 

 quiries, and we have no doubt will be of interest to our readers generally : 



"Notwithstanding the numerous volumes on Grecian architecture, from the days 

 of ViTRUVius to the present time, to which may be added all that have appeared 

 within the last century on the subject of Gothic antiquities, little or no notice has 

 been taken of the relative eiFects of the two styles, compared with each other; nor 

 even of those leading principles by which they are to be distinguished, characterized 

 and appropriated to the scenery of nature. It would seem as if the whole science 

 of Grecian architecture consisted in the five orders of columns, and that of Gothic, 

 in pointed arches and notched battlements. 



To explain this subject more clearly, and bring it before the eye more distinctly, 

 we will suppose a house of moderate size, not exceeding a front of more than sixty 

 feet consisting of three stories, and five windows in a line. We will suppose this 

 building to be taken from the hands of the mere joiner and house carpenter, and 

 committed to the architect, to be finished either in the Grecian or the Gothic style. 



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recourse 

 is had to the 

 best speci- 

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 portions of 

 columns, pi- 

 lasters, enta- 

 blatures, pediments, &e., represented in books of architecture, or copied from remains 

 of ancient fragments in Greece, or Italy: but, unfortunately, these all relate to tem- 

 ples or public edifices, and, consequently, to make the dwelling habitable in this 

 climate, modern sash-windows must be added to these sacred forms of remote anti- 

 quity. Thus, some Grecian or Roman temple is surprised to find itself transported 

 from the banks of the Ilissus, or the Tiber, to the shores of the Thames, or to the 

 tame margin of a modern stagnant .s/ice^ of toater. 



If the ^Gothic character be preferred, the architect must seek for his models 

 among the fragments of his own country: but again, unfortunately, instead of 

 houses, he can only have recourse to castles, cathedrals, abbeys, and colleges ; many 



