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REVISIWS. 



Pennij Cycloptedia, Part 87. 



We liave before directed the attention of our readers, on more than 

 one occasion to this well conducted publication, and now point out the 

 article Paris, on account of the architectural remarks it contains on the 



principal public buildings, and likewise for the synoptical table which 

 accompanies them, and which is drawn up upon the same plan as those 

 of London and Munich. The arraua;enient is chronological, and divided 

 into centuries. We extract the latter portion, or that comprising the 

 edifices erected within the present century, more than which we do 

 not consider ourselves at liberty to transfer to our Journal, else we 

 sliould willingly give the entire table ; but wdiether they take in the 

 work or not, we have no doubt that most of our readers will procure 

 the pal't containing the article from which our extract is taken. 



Nineteenth Century. 



Rue Kivoli 

 La Madeleine 



Pont des Arts 



Arch of the Tuileries . 



Vendome Colamn 



Arc de I'Etoile 



Pont des Iiivalldes 



(Pont de Jena) 



Fontaine du Palmier 



Portico, Chamber of Deputies 

 Bourse .... 



Hotel des Affaires Etrangcres 

 (Quai d'Orsay) 



Halle anx Vins 

 Bendy Fountain 

 Marche St. Germain 

 Chapelle Expiatoire 



Ecole des Beaux Arts 



July Column 



Pont du Carrousel 



Palais de Justice 

 Hotel de Ville . 



laixor Obelisk 

 Place de la Concorde . 

 Notre Dame de Lorette 

 St. Vincent de Paul 



Bazar Bonne Nouvelle 



Church, Faubourg St. Germain 



Remarks. 



A Corinthian peristyle of 52 columns (8 at each end) 62 feet high, raised on a stylobate 



13 feet high. 

 For foot-passengers only ; arches cast iron, piers stone. 

 Each front lias four Corinthian columns (shafts red marble, and bronze capitals), with a 



central arch and two smaller ones. 

 Stone cased with bronze reliefs ; total height 141 feet. 



Width 147 feet, height 162 feet, depth 73 feet. Arch 47 feet wide, 90 feet high. 



Five arches, length 518 feet. 



A column on a pedestal, surmounted by a figme of Fame on a globe. Height to top of 



capital 49 ft. 3 in. : total height, with statue, 56 feet. 

 A single range of twelve cohunns (44 feet high) beneath a pediment. 

 A Corinthian peristyle of 64 columns (40 feet high), 14 at each end. 



An extensive pile, of which the projecting portion forming the facade towards the quay is 

 370 feet, and consists of two orders, Doric and Ionic, surmounted by an attic, and each 

 containing 19 large arcades or windows. 



\ large circular Oasin 90 feet in diameter, with other basins or terraces rising from it. 



Tetrastyle portico, Roman Doric attached to a square mass, whose three other sides have 



semicircular projections crowned by scmidomes against the attic of the square part. 

 Two Corinthian orders (one in columns, the other in pilasters), n])ou a basement. The 



gateway or screen from Chateau GaiUon, erected in front of the building. 

 Pedestal stone, column bronze, total height 154 feet; 13 feet higher than the VendOme 



Column. 

 Timber and iron, with stone piers and abutments. Three arches, centre one 187 feet span, 



and 16', rise. Total length 558 feet. 

 Interior remodelled ami rebuilt chiefly in the Renaissance style. 

 Restorations, cS;c. Renaissance style. 



Raised by Lebas, October 25. 



Embellished with fountains and architectural decorations. 



Portico, tetrastyle Corinthian. 



Gothic. 



We should like to see a complete series of such tables for all the 

 principal cities of Europe, published separately, and would suggest 

 this to the writer in the Cyclopsdia, n ith whom the idea appears to 

 have originated. 



j1 Brief Description of Ijie various Plans Ihal hare been proposed for 

 supplying the Metropolis with Pure U^altr, also a short Account of 

 Iht. difftrtiit Water Companies tliat now supply London. 



The sujiply of water for domestic use is a subject which.in all 

 times has been regarded as one of grc;it public importance, for, next 

 to the air which we breathe, water is the most powerful agent in vit.d 

 economy. It is a subject, indeed, which every year becomes of deeper 

 interest, partiodarly to the inhabitants of a densely peopled metro- 

 polis; to vitiated air and vitiated water, and to an insutbcient supply 

 of both in purity, is ow'ing the frightful mortality which attacks the 

 inhabitants of towns when compared with those of the country, and 

 we think that the Report of Mr. Farr to the Registrar Gieneral, will 

 l)0t do less towards effecting a reform of these evils, than the active 

 agitation of the last ten years, or the labours of parliauieutary com- 

 mittees. Much certainly has been done within the last ten years 



towards improving the supply of water, but much, very much, still 

 remains fu be done before the companies can be considered to have 

 done their dutv. The author of the pamphlet before us would have 

 done wisely ii he had omitted the following passage. "It is not in- 

 tended, in the present day, that the inhal)itants of London, generally, 

 complain of ti.e quality of the water supplied to them, although it 

 still seems to b" the policy of certain 'artful and mischievous persons' 

 tu use the words of a celebrated individual, now no more, by exag- 

 gerated statements to promote contention and inflame the passions of 

 the inhabitants," Though these words are supported by a quotation 

 from the great Telford, we nuist remember that he was speaking on 

 a subject on which he had strong prejudices. Is it at all probable 

 that the companies would have incurred the rnurmous outlay which 

 they have done during the last ten years, we may say, within limits, to 

 the tune of a million pounds sterling — if there had not been some 

 truth in the statements of these "artful and mischievous persons," 

 would the t^rand Junction Company have removed their works from 

 the "former olijectiouable site near Chelsea (Sewer?) Hospital" to 

 Brentford, and incurred an expense of nearly £200,000, if it had not 

 been for these "artful and mischievous persons." 0\ir author also 

 subjects himself to the same deuomination, for he even has had the 



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