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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[[pKBRrART, 



At such an e.irly periml we ;ire not to expect perfection — we are 

 to be prepared for many faults; but nevertheless we say that many 

 of the exami)les presented by Mr. Ilakewill deserve consideration 

 and i)raise. The monument to the prize-fij^hter, Jackson, by 

 Thomas IJutler, in Earl's-Court Cemetery, is very praiseworthy, 

 from the boldness of the desi<jn. As to the taste of so openly 

 commernoratinf^ such a man, it is nothinj; to us — we cannot help; 

 and most of the victors at Olympia were of the same stamp. Mor- 

 rison, the hyfjeist, St. John Lon;;, the back-scratcher, and Andrew 

 Ducrow, the nuiuntebank, have the larjjest tombs at Kensal-preen: 

 hut then they paid for them beforehand, and they had a rij^ht to 

 do what they liked with their own. Jackson left a larf^e sum for 

 a tomb; anil work of art though it is, and encomiastic as are the 

 verses upon it, it is a monument to a prize-fighter, and nothing 

 else. Tlie lion lying on the top, and the naked prize-fighter at 

 each end, are in keeping; and the prize-fighters are prize-fighters, 

 and nothing else: they are no shams — no model men — no ideals; 

 neither Adonis nor Antinous, but prize-fighters, with the dispro- 

 portions and characteristics of such. The sculptor knows what 

 such a man is, and has carved him accordingly. 



Another design which is in Kensal-green — a tomb with an angel 

 in front — is likewise of a sculptural character, and particularly 

 impressive. 



The outline of that of Reynold Morgan, in Kensal-green, is very 

 pleasing. It is a composition with a vase, particularly happy in 

 the harmony of the forms. 



VVe cannot say we like so well some of the architectural designs. 

 They show the old leaven of the sham classical, where the mere 

 introduction of a cornice, or some such feature, in a bald design, 

 is made to do duty for taste and simplicity. The conventionality 

 is purely professional; beauty, under the circumstances, there is 

 none, and the result is the erection of a toy-building instead of a 

 tomb. An Egyptian monument, in which Egyptian peculiarities 

 have been carried too far, pleases us no better; and although it 

 may give an example of the Egyptian style, it gives no favourable 

 proof of the powers of the architect. 



The work is to be in four quarterly parts, and to embrace fifty 

 designs; and we very much mistake if Mr. Hakewill will not suc- 

 ceed in giving his readers employment and remuneration, as well 

 as a book, if they take the hint to apply themselves to tliis branch 

 of practice. 



The Pictorial Guide to Jiipnn. By John Richabd Walbran-, 

 Local Secretary of the Archieological Institute. Third Edi- 

 tion. London: Nichols and Son, 18.50. 



Sepulchri, a Romiinis Cnnxtructi infra Errksiam S. Wi/fririi in 

 Oivilnti Riponenxii. By W. Downing Bruce, F.S.A., K.C.J. 

 Third Edition. London: Simpkin and Co., 1850. 



The Guide-book is interesting both to the antiquary and the 

 architect. It contains a most accurate and entertaining descrip- 

 tion of the cathedral church of St. Peter, at Ripon, and of the 

 monastic remains of Fountains and Bolton abbeys; likewise an 

 account of the extensive excavations going on at the present time 

 at Fountains (the property of Earl de Grey), under the direction 

 of the author, a well-known antiipiary in tlie north of England, — 

 tlie research being directed to an liitherto neglected portion of the 

 fabric, the Aljbut's house; the result corroborating the assumption 

 of Mr. \V'albran, that its site was on the south-east side of the 

 Lady-cha])el — in opposition to the received idea that the Zenodo- 

 c'lia, on the western side of the cloisters, had been appropriated to 

 this purpose. The whole site of the house has not been excavated, 

 but (piite sufficient has been to indicate its extent. The dimensions 

 of the principal apartments are — The great hall, divided into a 

 main and two side aisles by nine columns, l(i7ft. 6in. by 69ft. lOin.; 

 the passage leading from the cloister court of the abbey, 15 ft. 7 in. 

 wide; the chief staircase, 6 ft. 7 in. wide; the oratory or chapel 

 (the last portion built), i6 ft. 6 in. by 11 ft. 5in. ; the refectory, 

 02 ft. by 23 ft. 9 in. ; the dais, 11 ft. 3 in. wide. John de Cancia, 

 the al)bot, was tlie builder of the house (1219-tr). The character 

 of the building is jilain and su1)stantial. The floors of the princi- 

 pal apartments were paved with encaustic square tiles; several 

 patterns are introduced: one of four tiles displ.iys the arms of the 

 abbey, another the lozenge inclosing the rose. The author sup- 

 poses they were the rejected tiles of some great work which will 

 be hereafter discovered in the abbey, 



Tlie object of Mr. Bruce in his pamphlet is to prove a similarity 

 between tlie famed crypt under the central tower of Ripon cathe- 

 dral (usually called St. M'ilfred's Needle), and Virgil's Tomb, near 



Naples, — which he proves by giving a plan and section of each • 

 His efforts to connect the two show, at least, that the Saxons had 

 succeeded admirably in imitating the Roman style of architecture. 

 Mr. Walbran has availed himself of Mr. Bruce's researches on this 

 point. 



The Banqueting House, Wliitehall, designed by Inigo Jones, consist- 

 ing of an elevation and two sheets of details. By Octavivs Hansard, 

 Architect. London: John Weale. 



These prints are a valuable acquisition to the architect, and do 

 great credit to the labours of Mr. Hansard ; all the measurements 

 of the principal elevation have been taken by him at great cost and 

 labour ; he was daily to be seen suspended in a car by a rope taking 

 dimensions of the several details. The plates consist first of an 

 elevation geometrically drawn and shaded to a scale of ^ of an 

 inch to the foot, and two plates showing all the details drawn to a 

 scale Ig inch to the foot, together with all the dimensions in 

 figures. 



"The peruliarities of the buildine," Mr. Hansard observes, "are nume- 

 rous, anil, as in most large works, so in this, the dimensions of similar and 

 corresponding portions do not exactly agree; their difference, however, is 

 not perceptible. 



"On a comparison of the original drawings by Inigo Jones* with the 

 structure itself, it would appear that at some period the rusticated basement 

 has been altered, prohahly on the occasion of a repair; indeed, there can be 

 no doubt uf the rustication of the basement of the west front having beea 

 originally similar to that of the east. 



The following are the general dimensions : — 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



Height of Rusticated Basement 10 9| 



Height of Ionic Column 23 PJ 



Height of Entablature 4 9} 



Total Heieht of Inferior Order 28 /J 



Hpight of Blocking Course 12 



Height of Composite Column .... 22 7 

 Height of Composite Entablature ... 4 8| 



Total Height of Superior Order 28 5f 



Height of Balustrade and its Plinths 7 4^ 



Total Height of Building 75 34 



Total Lengtii on Plinth Line 121 2$ 



* In the Library of WorctBter CuUege, Oxford. 



Buildings and Monuments, Part V. Edited by G. Godwin, F.S.A. 

 These illustrations are so well executed and so pleasing, that we 

 regret the series is drawing towards a close; and we hope, there- 

 fore, the encouragement Mr. Godwin has already received is such 

 as to induce him hereafter to undertake another work of the same 

 kind. The engravings are pleasing; and as the book has the 

 advantage of illustrations from Mr. Godwin's pen, it has likewise 

 a professional as well as a popular value. 



Rudimentary Treatise — Tubular and other Iron Girder Bridges. 

 By S. Drysdale Dempsey. London: Weale. 

 Mr. Dempsey has in this book brought together all the infor- 

 mation extant as to the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges; 

 and those of our readers who have already been put in possession 

 of it piecemeal in our Journal, may be glad to have this summary 

 of the subject, in which the text and engravings are reduced to a 

 more portable form. 



HUTCHISON'S INDURATED STONE. 



Mr. Hutchison lias been most successful in rendering the soft sand- 

 stone, which abounds at Tunbridge Wells and other parts of Kent, per- 

 fectly hard and impervious to wet. Its advantages for many purposes are 

 very great. The stone, when in a soft slate in the quarry, is shaped or 

 worked to its proper form, as for chimney-pieces, moldings, ashlar, steps, 

 sinks, 6cc.; and it afterwards undergoes some preparation which renders it 

 equal to the hardest stone. Mr. Hutchison can deliver the prepared in- 

 durated ashlar stone in London, ready for setting, at Is. 6d. per footculie, 

 and IJ inch rubbed paving at dd. per foot. The paving has been sub- 

 mitted to a severe test for three years at Tunbridge Wells. The prepaia- 

 tinn may be used with great advantage fur any soft stone, and even !or 

 chalk or plaster: some specimens of plaster figures that were submitted to 

 our inspeclion were as hard as a piece of Yorkshire stone. 



