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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[January, 



Ancient and Modem Architecture. By M. Jules Gailhabaud. Series 

 the First. London : Firmin Didot & Co.. 



The first series of these interesting sketches of ancient and modern 

 monuments, is now complete, comprising an extensive range of 

 studies. The number of plates is forty, and containing a great number 

 of details, they afford a good synopsis of the graphic history of archi- 

 tecture. The Hindoo, the Egyptian, and the Persian, are well illus- 

 trated. So are the Pelasgic and Celtic styles, but as these latter are 

 rather subjects of arcbeeological than professional interest, we could 

 well have compounded for a more restricted treatment, as compared 

 with Greek art. The only monument of Greece at present, is the 

 Temple of Segesta ; the deficiency, we hope, will be made, as pro- 

 mised, in the subsequent series. Indeed we see that the Parthenon 

 has been already published. The Roman and early Italian styles afford 

 several illustrations, as does the Byzantine. The Arabian style has 

 its representative in the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, at Cairo ; neither have 

 the medieval monuments been neglected. 



The text has been confided to the hands of Messrs. Gailhabaud, 

 Albert Lenoir, Raoul Rochette, Jomard, Langlois, Leon Vaudoyer, 

 Dr. Franz Kugler, and others, names which are guaranteed for the 

 artistic and antiquarian treatment of the subject. 



In the subsequent series we are promised an extended treatment of 

 the various styles, but we think it hardly necessary to go to the extent, 

 with regard to modern works, of republishing St. Paul's Cathedral, 

 the Docks, and other edifices, &c, well known, and so often described. 

 Still, perhaps some sacrifices must be made to the public, and when 

 we consider that it is only by a very large sale, that a work so cheap 

 as the present can be made to remunerate, we must not complain, if 

 the professions do not have it all their own way. Undoubtedly the 

 present work forms one of the cheapest and most available works of 

 reference yet afforded to the student and the profession. 



Lithographic View of Cottages and School in the Village of Bourton 

 Berks, erected on th property of Hi mlv Tucker, Esq., by Fkld. W 

 Oruisii, Architect. 



In these buildings, a praiseworthy endeavour has been made to 

 revive in the ordinary labourers cottages and village schools, that 

 character which is so perfectly and alone in harmony with our En- 

 glish country, an humble endeavour to re-diffuse a few sparks of that 

 spirit of the bygone, which has lain asleep so lung, anil in the delight- 

 ful anticipation, that the time for the erection of bastard incongruous 

 heathen soulless buildings, 1ms had its day, ami that now is the repawn- 

 ing of better and nobler desires, of delight to spread far and wide, 

 buddings suited to the recluse and the wordling, of which few, though 

 very beautiful specimens, remain in ruins. 



Each cottage is provided with a lobby, living room, open stairs, 

 kitchen pantry, with two bed-rooms and closets to each, above ; the 

 whole, throughout, is in good keeping: the three single lights to the 

 living room, arc fixed in deep an ho I recesses, with pointed B 

 sufficiently spacious to accommodate a person reading, in the end 

 recess of each habitation, the ancient custom of chaining the Scrip- 

 tures, will he conformed to. 



The schools are sufficiently spacious to accommodate the whole of 

 the children of the village, and are well ventilated, being 121 feet high. 

 The roof has all its timbers framed, boarded, and exposed, springing 

 from stone corbels, on which are cut the initials of the several bene- 

 factors, the floors are also of stone ; the windows, ground glass ; oppo- 

 site, are recesses for books. The end window contains the armorial 

 bearings of the family at whose expense this portion has been erected, 

 in the gable thereof, and the gloom of the timber, is formed an antique 

 cross of stained glass; the school is also provided with lobby, cloak 

 room, and masters' house complete, over the centre of the latter, is 

 the inscription, JE. X. 1S42., in the scroll work over the stone fire- 

 place, is another, embodying the object of the donors. 



These buildings are to be opened in July next, for public use, and 

 are erected in the village of Bourton, near Shrivenham, Berks, in the 

 parish of the Archdeacon Berens, at the expense of the family of 

 "Tuckers" formerly inhabitants. The cottages are the sole property 

 of Henry Tucker, Esq., the total expense of the whole, exclusive of 

 the gift of the rough stonework, only cost 750/. 



PARSON'S PATENT. 



Sir — In No. 74 of your Journal (November, 1S43) you furnish 

 extracts from the specification of a patent granted to P. M. Parson, 

 of Waterloo Bridge Road, Surrey, for "certain improvements in 

 steam engines and boilers, and in motive machinery connected there- 

 with," &c. 



At the bottom of the second column, page 39G, you say, "The third 

 claim in this branch is, we believe, perfectly new, whether useful or 

 not, remains to be proved ; we allude to the double-acting air pump 

 with separate valves and offices, the one at bottom to remove the 

 condensed water, that at the top to pump away the air and uneon- 

 densed vapour accumulating in the condensers," &c. 



The date of Mr. Parson's patent being Sth December, 1S12, I beg 

 leave to refer you to a patent granted to John George Bodmer, of 

 Manchester, dated 10th June, 1841, and entitled for "certain improve- 

 ments in machinery for propelling vessels in water, part of which 

 improvements apply also to steam engines to be employed on land." 

 There, with reference to Sheet III. of drawings, Figs. 1 S: 7, you will 

 find described a double-acting air pump, the object of which is to 

 remove the condensed water at the bottom, and to pump away the air 

 and uncondensed vapour at the top. 



Whether or not such an air pump would tend to produce a more 

 perfect vacuum, I do not at present pretend to determine ; but I 

 should think it would materially influence the speed at which an 

 engine may be worked. 



At all events there has been one of Mr. Bodmer's double piston 

 steam engines (of 30 horse power i whose air pump is constructed upon 

 the princi ile in question, working in this town for the last two years; 

 its crank shaft in ikes from 70 to 80 revolutions per minute, the steam 

 being used at 301b. pressure in the boiler and expanded ; and I doubt 

 whether a common air pump would hear such a speed. 

 I am, Sir, 



Manchester, Your obedient servant, 



Dec. 7,184a R. B. 



Mr. Weale recently visited Holland for the purpose, of obtaining the 

 original and only set of drawings of the extraordinary collection of 

 painted glass in Gouda, in Holland, which he has succeeded in pur- 

 chasing and bringing to England. 



OBITUARY. 



JOHN CLAUDIUS LOUDON. 



-■\iter several months of impaired health, and latterly a rapid decline 



arising from a pulmonary disorder, this gentleman 'Heel at his house, Por- 



er, on the 14th of December, leaving a name that 



is a very conspicuous one in the necrology of the year 1843, and which "ill 



I rred to the more permanent record of biography. Many 



and varied are his claims to honourable mention by the last, since, high as 



he stood in his more immediate profession as a landscape gar. Ii 



botanist and horticulturist, lie extended his studies to other pursuits, and 



y diligence and success; nor must it be supposed, 



divers ty of attainments, that his knowledge in some of them was 



UUl slight and superficial. Sucdl was mo:.: assuredly nol the case with 

 to his architectural studies, and it is with reference to them that he is more 

 entitled here to notice from ourselves. 

 To him we are indebted for the very first periodical expressly devoted to 

 our art, viz. the "Architectural Magazine," which was commenced by him 

 and carried on till the end of 1838, when he discontinued it, although 

 luctantly, and not so much from want of encouragement, i 

 then established in character, as because it occupied lime which he could ill 

 spare from other engagements, among which was the editorship of the 

 iziw ; and to conduct two periodical works, both of them 

 monthly ones, simultanccusly, is a task almost too great for the most inde- 

 fatigable. Previously to the appearance of tie Magazine, there 

 was no one known and fixed point of rendezvous to which professional men 

 or others couU resort, whether for lite purpose of seeking or commun 

 information We do not saj thai until then architecture hail been cutin 1} ex- 

 cluded from the periodical literature of die day ; on the contrary, papers of the 

 kin I, si mcof them, of considerable merit and interest, hail appeared in literary 

 ji ui n ils; 1 but only occasionally, and scattered through a range of di 

 publications. Then, for the first time, did Architecture enter the ranks of 

 journalism, certainly in this country, nor as tar as we are aware, did there 

 at that time exist any thing Of the kind in other countries, although several 

 foreign architectural journals have since arisen. 



1 We may here observe that i; was in consequence of being struck by an 

 article of the kind, that Mr. Lou Ion sought i ut and made acquaintance with 

 its author— one who. by this time, must be tolerably familiar to our readers 

 by the pseudonym ol Candidas. 



