3.56 Kittoe's Indian Architecture. 



Part II. contains a design for a forester's cottage, including plan of the 

 basement and ground floor ; elevation of the entrance and garden fronts; 

 transverse and longitudinal sections ; perspective view ; plan of bay window, 

 i in. to 1 ft.; elevation of ditto, ditto; and plans and elevations of chimney 

 shafts. 



Our readers are now put in possession of the contents of these two parts, 

 and the author informs us that each part may be forwarded by post, and on 

 being requested to do so, he will be happy to comply pre-paid. Mr. Ricauti's 

 address is No. 47. Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury Square, London. 



A cheaper way for a gentleman in the country to get a design for an or- 

 namental cottage can hardly be devised ; and the working plans are all on 

 such a large scale, that the building may be executed under the direction of 

 any country carpenter. We therefore recommend a trial of one number of 

 the work at least. 



With respect to the taste of this novel feature of forming the muUions, 

 labels, architraves, and facings to stone or brick walls, of unbarked trees, we 

 cannot approve of it, on account of the incongruity of the materials. In 

 general, the ornamental parts of a building are not only designed in more 

 elaborate forms than the plain parts, but they are executed in a somewhat 

 better material, or at all events in one not worse. Thus brick buildings have, 

 for the most part, stone labels and mullions, and for a good reason : in the 

 case of the mullions, there is the lintel to support, and in the case of the 

 label, the rain to throw off. Now the action of the rain would soon rot both 

 the rustic muUion and the rustic label, and while the walls would look bare 

 and prematurely going to decay, the lintels of the windows would be falling 

 in. We are quite aware from the plans that there are stone mullions behind 

 the rustic ones, but in criticising an object which addresses itself chiefly to 

 the eye, we must examine it, not as we know it to be, but as it seems to be. 

 The difficulty, perhaps, might be got over, by covering the whole of the ex- 

 terior walls with wood having the bark on ; at all events, the novelty of this 

 decoration and its rustic appearance will recommend it to many persons, and 

 nothing can be better than for those that have time and money to try every 

 thing. The only certain thing that every man attains in this world is experi- 

 ence. We make these remarks with great regard for the author, whom we 

 have the pleasure of personally knowing, and consider to be a beautiful 

 architectural draughtsman, and a very amiable person. 



Art. VIII. Illustrations of Indian Arcfiitecture. By M. Kittoe. 

 Calcutta. Parts I. to VIII. Oblong 4to. London, Allen. 125. each. 



This work differs from Ram Raz on Indian architecture, in consisting of a 

 series of examples with their details, while the other endeavours to lay down 

 the rules and proportions of the parts common to all buildings whatever in 

 the Indian style. In short, the work of Ram Raz may be called the five 

 orders of Indian architecture, and that of M, KLittoe its Vitruvius Britannicus. 

 The publication will be useful to architects, by furnishing them with data for 

 buildings designed in the Indian manner, and to gardeners, by the hints which 

 it gives for laying out flower-gardens to accompany such buildings. As it 

 must be interesting in India for an Englishman to build and lay out his 

 garden in some of the manners common in his native country, so we think 

 must it be to an Englishman who has made his fortune in India, to exhibit 

 the style of the country to which he is so much indebted, in the scene of his 

 retirement. Independently of this, the Indian style, if occasionally adopted 

 even by those who have never been in India, would prove a source of novelty, 

 differing from the novelty produced by the revival of our ancient styles, in 

 being, as Addison long ago expressed it, " strange as well as new." The style, 



