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The tiles repre- 

 sented in ^g. 113. are 

 the invention of Mr. 

 Reed, tile - maker, 

 at Bishop Stortford, 

 and have only lately 

 come into use. They 

 are formed and put 

 together exactly on 

 the same principle as 

 the new French roof- 

 ing tiles, described 

 and figured in the 

 Supplement to the 

 Encyclop(sdia of Cot- 

 tage Architecture, 

 p. 1260. ; and, like 

 them, they are com- 

 pletely weather- 

 tight, even when 

 used with little or 

 no cement. They Fig. lis. Roofing TUes used in the Cambridge Cemetery Chapel. 



are the handsomest English tiles that v^e know of, and peculiarly suitable for 

 ornamental cottages, lodges, &c., in the old English style. 



APPENDIX. 



Before publishing the preceding sheets, we sent a copy of them to a much 

 esteemed correspondent at Leeds, Thomas Wilson, Esq., in whose taste and 

 judgement we have the greatest confidence, and the following are his criti- 

 cisms and suggestions. We have preferred giving them in his own words, 

 although we are aware they were written rather as hints for ourselves, than 

 with the expectation that they would be published in the form in which they 

 were sent us. 



There is nothing that is so little creditable to the national taste as the 

 mode of conducting funerals. It is easy to account for it however. We are 

 a trade-ridden people; and allow, from habit and indolence, tailors to be 

 judges of taste in our dress, and milliners in that of ladies ; and yet, in the pre- 

 sent state of education in this country, how is it possible that the former, at 

 any rate, should have the knowledge and the cultivation necessary to qualify 

 them to judge in such matters ? So with our undertakers: except in the me- 

 tropolis, they are men of very limited cultivation ; and, besides, the subject is 

 one on which people are so sensitive, in those cases where they are individually 

 concerned as directors of funerals, that no man likes to go out of the beaten 

 path ; and we remain, therefore, with parcels and patches of ceremonies and 

 costumes as unsuitable to that which is associated with them, as bag wigs 

 and court dresses with our ordinary attire. The reform in this, as in all 

 other cases, must come out of the people themselves, when they are more 

 enlightened ; and especially when they are trained to comprehend the nature 

 of their own minds, and to reason logically, instead of being governed by 

 conventional practices ; and particularly when correct principles of taste are 

 established and acted upon, and deduced from the nature of things and from 

 optical principles, and not regarded as a peculiar subject to be comprehended 



