Did 
ghe neareft to their gaudy produétions, are 
placed in the beft lights; while fober 
defigns uniting tafte and difcrimination, 
and executed with the niceft attention, are 
treated as laborious trifles, and placed 
where they cannot have their merits efti- 
mated§ fome at the very top, others at 
the very fkirting, of ‘the room; and 
fome with their backs to the light.* 
Still more to expres their indifference to 
architeGtural fubje€ts, whatever is extra- 
neous in the art of delineation, they af- 
fociate with them; and they’ are mixed 
with drawings and paintings of botanical 
{ubjeéts, with flowers, and fhells, and any 
dranch of natural hiftory. It is not in the 
prefent exhibition alone that this has been 
inftanced, but every late year it .has been 
increafing, and the prefent is worfe than 
any former one. : 
Sir, I know the heads of the academy 
have been applied to on this fubjeé, but 
it has not been attended to 3 on the con- 
trary, the treatment has been worle; I 
have therefore made thefe few obfervations, 
to inform the public how ill architecture 
is treated by painters, and to intimate to 
them, that it is not the architects fault, 
that their works are made fo little intereft- 
ing, painters have turned them out of 
doors. The former having provided the 
latter a dwelling, they have taken poflef- 
fon of it, and have turned their protectors 
Out into the fireet. 
AN AMaTEUR.IN ARCHITECTURE. 
May, 1801. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magaziue. 
SIR, 
OUR Journeyman-printer, (vol. x. 
page 437) bears very hard on us au- 
* Particularly fee the very beautiful draw- 
ings and defigns in gothic architecture, by 
Mefirs, Repton,- placed in the very wort 
places and lights in the room, Nos. 835, 937, - 
942, and 1005, particularly 942. See alfo 
Mr. Alexander’s exquifité miniature drawing 
of Waltham-crofs, No. 1021. Alfo an ele- 
gamt defign and beautiful drawing, of a hall, 
in ‘gothic archite€ture by Mr. J Dixon. No. 
1032, which I had not feen, but by the acci- 
dental reflected light from a lady’s, white 
gown as fhe ftood near it. And others of 
great, tho? lefs merit than thefe, to which 
I have willingly, though indignantly, gone 
on my knees to examine; and would fome 
few of the portrait-painters do the fame, they 
would but pay a juittributeto merit, and might 
by attention to fuch productions beget a juft, 
fenfe how unworthily, fuch works had 
been treated by being placed in fuch fitua- 
tions, ‘ 
Counterplaint. 
( OGober 15 
thors: and afferts that it is an zaviolate 
rule with compofitors never to take the 
unjuftifiable liberty of deviating from am 
author’s manuifcript without his exprefs 
permiffion. Of this extraordinary work- 
man, Ican only fay tals cum fis utinan 
nojter effes; for his typographic brethren 
have other habits; they are punétually, 
they are literally, they are verbally care- 
lefs.. I have tried experiments ; I have 
been on the watch for feveral months patt 5. 
I will now enumerate fome grammatical 
blunders, which in communications of my 
own, have been carefully avoided in the 
manu(cript, and as regularly introduced on, 
the pages of the Monthly Magazine. 
1. Farther for further. , Dr. Johnfon, 
long ago very juftly obferved that further 
being the comparitive of forth, and not of 
- far, ought never to be written with ana@s 
his remark has influenced general practices 
to write or to fet farther is to violate 
ufage, as well as grammar. 
2. Rhyme for rime. The word rime 
has no etymological connexion with the 
Greek rhuthmos ; it derives-from the An- 
glofaxen and Lfelandic riem or rim, which 
fignifies the edge of a hide, a thong, a 
bond ; hence the verb rieman, to tie with 
a thong, to bind. Thefe words were mez 
taphorically applied by the Skalds to de- 
fignate that fort of tying by the edges, 
which lines, that rime, undergo: and 
from them all the Gothic dialeéts have 
the word. The Germans ftill diftinguifh 
verfe and profe, by the names of bound, 
and unbound {peech. 
3. Upon for on. The prepofition ot- 
ewith/ianding and the conjunction zzasmuchas 
have not loit the meaning implied in their 
component parts, though they are often 
written as fingle words: neither ought 
upon. It can only be ufed with propriety 
where the words wp and oz may both be 
employed. Set the fugar-bafin upon the 
foeif: bat not: Set dowzn the coal-/hoot upon 
the ground. ‘This blunder is f9 very com= 
mon in the facred books, that wherever a. 
{cripture ftyle is aimed at, it muft be pur= 
pofely affected. The tranflators of the 
bible were better Hebrgans, than Angli-. 
cifts. hace: 
A fimilar remark might be applied to: 
the words uvto and until, which are com= 
pounded of o” and ¢o, and of ow and tl. 
4. Ife for ize. 
ize being derived from the Greek izé 
fhould always be written with z not with s. 
All verbs therefore formed by the fame,, 
rule of analogy as to barbarize, to charac- 
terize, to profelytize ought to terminate in 
ize: whereas the verbs formed from Latin” 
/ fupines,. 
The formative fyllable _ 
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