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Annals of a Publi-hing House: 

 William Black wood and bis Sons, (heir Magazine 



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 kTtTe, Franrin Turner, an English poet, 



ii Palgrave; went fr->m t he Charterhouse 

 School to < id was elected a fellow 



College after taking a first-class in clasM 

 Prom 1850 till 18M ho was vice principal of the 

 Kneller Hall Training School, and he then be- 

 came examiner ami axiistant M-cretary in til- 

 cation Office, v !.-!!::mi. -1 until he was 

 elected Profe*- 

 the death of Prin s tiro. 11,- put 



:.gs" (1864); a book of hymns , 

 - 



laml'M^i; ami " Amem-phus and Other Poems" 

 (18W). He was the author also of critical essays 

 on art II i< chief work was a collection ..f the 

 songs and lyrics of Knglish poeU, published in 

 1861 un.ier'the title of the "Golden Trea.- 



followed by other anthologies, such as 



the -Children's Treasury," "Treasury of Bngibh 



Sacred I Wiry." and volumes selected from the 



MIIV-..U. Keat-, ,md Iler- 



riek. " Shortly before his death In- completed a sec- 



Nfisj of the "Golden Treasury, containing 

 the work <'f Victorian poets. 



Pearson. John l.oii^hloi-on-h. an Knglish 



architect. l>rn in Brussels. Hi-lgium. .Inly b". 1817: 



i L-'iidon. I>ec. 11. 1SJ)7. He was the son of 



William Pearson, an Knglish painter in water 



I, and at the age of fourteen entered the 

 architect's office of Ignatius Honomi. in Durham. 

 After a time he went t-> London, studied witi. 

 Tin, and later with Philip Hardwiek. whose assist- 

 ant he became. His private practice began with 

 the erection, in -. Ann's Chapel. Kllerker. 



Yorkshire, the drawings of which make it manifest 

 thai even tluis early he had acquired an exten-i\e 

 knowledge and appreciation of media-val d< 

 The lir-t work that brought him prominent! 1 . 

 ward was the Church of the Holy Trinity at West- 



r. which was greatly admired by 1' 

 Scott and Pugin. out in the main did riot differ 

 greatly from the letter da- of (Jot hie at that time 

 in its accurate following of mediaeval detail. 

 fore this he had engaged in several restorations, 

 one of the most important of which was that of the 

 church 9t Stow-in-Lindsey, Lincoln-hire, where he 

 restored the Norman vaulting. 1I> -arlv discov- 

 ered that vaulting was neither so difficult nor so 

 expensive as had been thought, and from about 

 this time covered his larger churches with brick 

 vaults on stone ribs. In this portion of his career 

 became under the influence of early l-'ren. -h w,,rk, 

 and throughout his life he was affected 1.. 



. his spires in particular exhibiting this. " Hi- 

 first really individual work was St Peter's, Vaux- 

 ball, built in lxl. a church whose somewhat for- 

 \terior hardly prepares one for its im- 

 .N-rior. In 1H71 he designed St Augus- 

 tine's, Kilbuni. the most important of all his j 



he*. The originality of treatment apparent 

 in this church in equally observable in the Ix>ndon 

 >ohn, Red Li..- -sl.ich was 



designed t: 1 displays an unusual amount 



of constructive skill. The detail of both chur 

 as well as that of much of Mr. Pearson's later work, 

 is thirteenth century Knglish. Of a little later 

 date than these are the churches of St. Michael, 

 Croydon; St John, l*i.p.r Norwood; and St. Al- 

 ban. Birmingham all vaulted, cruciform struc- 

 tures, with aisles and chapels, and each possessing 



buildings 



designed by him are the churehe- : hen. 



Bournemouth; St Agnes, Toxtith Park; All 



re; the strikingly original parish chnn-h 

 Leeds: (he Catholic Apo-tolu- 



Church at >(aida Vale; th< ..tVn-p 



on the Thames KmliankiiM-nt. r. et-'d in ls'.i:5: and 

 addn - M-X and Kmmanuel Col- 



lege, Cambridge. As a restorer <>f Knglish eathe- 

 drals he was perhaps best kn\Mi. and lie \\a- the 

 tve as well as the m..>i 1,-arned ( ,f 

 ish restorers. In hi- management of restora- 

 . decayed material was removed t<> ) 



Ned ..lie b\ 



disintegrated masses taken d..\\n and r. -p. 

 stone for stone, moldings ami ornaments were 

 d from the originals, if anythini: was left to 

 copy; if not. they were confessedly new and would 

 be so seen by any archib t.evcn it. 



following the style and motive of the old work. In 

 to Lincoln Cathedral, and 



"li the death of Sir- .reeded In 



architect to I'.n-lol Cat hedral, completing th> 

 and western towers, and de-i^nin.LT the re' 

 The rations in I nrh in the 



decade, which involved the taking down and 

 rebuilding of the lantern tower, were conducted by 

 him. as were the very recent | the west 



front. He was also architect to I.'-- 

 ( hi( hester Cathedrals, the recent conservative res- 

 Mi of the western facade of the former struc- 

 ture being his; while at the time of his death he 

 was engaged upon a design for the completion ,,f 

 the norths tensive al- 



r.efield Cathedral had been planned 

 by him in the last months of his life, and he had 

 been con-nit ini: architect to the cathedr. 

 : and (iloucester. The alteration- at \\Y-t- 

 minstcr Hall, completed in !**!. i/en by him: but 

 \\i< mo-t important work as a restorer was at West- 

 minster Abbey. Here he restored the upper portion 

 of the nort h "t ransept front and the south ai-le- of 

 nave and ohoir, works which have not been -utTered 

 to pass without critici-m. but which the jndgim-nl 

 of experts on the whole has highly appn 

 great work of Mr. Pearson, the only modern (iothic 

 structure that fully deserves to be called a rat he- 

 dral, is Truro Cathedral, on the plans of which he 

 began working in 1878. This great building 

 the double cruciform plan, and when completed 

 will Assess all the important feature- of the great 

 media-val cathedral- of Kngland. It will ron-i-| of 

 nave and ai-les. with southern porch, we-tern -pired 

 towers and porch, greater transept with lantern and 

 -pire. choir with aisles and eastern transept-, and 

 on the north a cloister garden and octagonal chap- 

 ter hou-e. The foundation stone was laid M 

 1880, and in November. ISST, the completed por- 

 tion was opened for -em.-.-. Mr. I'ear-.n did n<>t 

 confine himself to the working out of one e-pe.-ial 

 phase of Gothic, but hi- favorite -t\ 

 early pointed: to this he imparted his own indi- 

 viduality, setting hi- impress upon all that he did, 

 and escaping most successfully the monotony which 

 thi- development of (iothic sometimes exhibit-. lb- 

 was full of original ideas, and one of the fir-t to 

 break away from the old habit of copying and to 

 design modern buildings in the trul- medieval 

 spirit, and was. in fact, the founder of the srhool 

 of modern (Jot hie architecture. Like ot her archi- 

 tects, he had manneri-m-. among which was a fond- 

 ness for small details. He liked to place lofty flank- 

 ing turrets beside his gables, to minimi/' 

 in order to display tower angle-, and. in general. 



pha-i/.e vertical line-. HI- d. 

 number of schools, mansions, country n 

 ages, and other structures; but these, however ex- 

 t of their kind, probably contributed little to 

 hi- reputation. < >n Dec. IT, 'his funeral took place 

 in Westminster Abbey, his body being laid i<> 



