Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Sfc. 627 



Under these circumstances, it will easily be conceived that we highly 

 approve of Mr. Denton's pamphlet, which we most cordially recommend 

 to all our readers who take an interest in such subjects ; and more especially 

 to landed proprietors who wish to have correct and easily understood repre- 

 sentations of their estates. 



Description and Use of an imjjroved Levelling Stave. By J. Sopwith, F. G. S., 

 Land and Mine Surveyor, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 

 The object of Mr. Sopwith's improvement is to save time, by enabling the 

 surveyor to read off the figures for himself at the very moment of taking the 

 observation, vvithout requiring any aid from the assistant. This will be an 

 important saving of time, as well as an assurance against mistakes arising 

 from ignorance or inattention. For the construction of the stave we must 

 refer to the pamphlet. 



Illustrations and Descriptions of Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire ; ivith an Essay 

 on Ecclesiastical Design. By G. R. Lewis : author of " A Series of Groups 

 on the People of France and Germany" ; of the Illustrations to Dr. Dibdin's 

 " Tour through France and Germany" ; " View of the Muscles of the Human 

 Body"; "An Address to the Manufacturers on the subject of Education, as 

 connected with Design, in every department of British Manufacture"; and, 

 preparing for publication, " British Forest Trees." Parts II. and III. 

 Folio, numerous lithographs. London, 1841. 



We noticed Part I. of this work in our volume for last year, p. 561. The 

 two parts before us are of intense interest to those who are at all attached 

 to the study of architecture or antiquities. Mr. Lewis thinks he has got 

 the key to the principles of design of the Gothic architects, as far as 

 respects ornament ; and, if he is correct, these principles are certainly very 

 curious. For example, the following is a description of the nave of Kilpeck 

 Church : — 



" It appears to me, that the designer intended the figures 19 and 2, at the 

 beginning and end of the nave, to represent the Garden of Eden. Tlie nave 

 to be considered the garden, the place of trial to all who enter therein. 

 Obedience or disobedience to God's commands will then be seen, and the 

 rewards and punishments made known for their fulfilment or neglect. The 

 trees of life, and knowledge of good and evil, are there planted and explained 

 to all who seek it lawfully, by entering in at the strait gate, the door and 

 the way of God's word. Figs. 18, 9, 4, and 3, are fowls of the air and 

 beasts of the field, and 5 is fruit of the trees of the garden; 16 and 17 are 

 Adam and Eve ; 13 the serpent, the power of which is seen in the union 

 of many. In the space between the end of 14 and 15 a bracket is wanting, 

 and 14 is defaced. The subject on the lost bracket might have been the 

 fall of Adam and Eve ; and on that which is defaced, sorrow or thorns 

 and thistles; 12, the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden ; 11, Adam 

 and Eve clothed ; and ' the Lord God made coats of skin, and clothed 

 them, and sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground, from 

 whence he was taken."" (p. 10.) 



In this manner, all the ornaments in the interior, and also on the exterior, 

 of the church, are described and spiritualised ; and there are, besides, copious 

 extracts from Durandus, illustrative of the same subject. In short, the 

 perusal of the work is calculated to give a new interest to every Gothic 

 church. 



RejJort of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the present State of 

 the " National Monuments and Works of Art," c^-c. Folio, pp. 6. 1841. 



It is highly gratifying to find that additional facilities are every year being 

 given for the admission of the people to their public monuments, and that acts 

 of this kind arc not abused by them. The following notice respecting 

 Hampton Court Palace is gratifying: — 



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