BOOKS REVIEWED AND NOTICED.

General Subject.

A Plain Statement of Facts connected with the

Coalition between the Society for the Promotion

of Architecture, &c., and the Society of British

Architects, page 275.

A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Five

Orders of Architecture, 129.

Bakewell's Observations on Building and Brick-

making, 312.

Bennett's Artificer's Complete Lexicon for Terms

and Prices, 83.

Billington's Architectural Director, Part i., 84;

Parts ii. and iii., 180; Parts iv. and v., 274;

Parts vi. and vii., 213.

Britton's Memoir of Sir John Soane, 310.
Crelle's Journal für die Baukunst, 237.
Dallaway's Discourses upon Architecture in Eng-
land, from the Norman Era to the Close of the
Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 202.

Gregory's Mathematics for Practical Men, 86.

Hope's History of Architecture, announced, 45.

Hullmandel's Art of Drawing on Stone, 86

Inwood's Studies of the Architect from Nature, 44.

Lafevre's Modern Builder's Guide, 44.

Laxton's Improved Builder's Price Book, 86.

Morisot's Journal d'Architecture Civile et Rurale,

&c., 43.

Nicholson's General Treatise on Projection, an-

nounced. 372.

Rám Ráz's Essay on the Architecture of the

Hindús, 267.

Rickman's Attempt to discriminate the Styles of

Architecture in England, announced, 86.

Robinson's New Vitruvius Britannicus, 85, 86.

Simm's Mathematical Instruments, 371.

Skyring's Builder's Price Book, 86.

Smirke's Suggestions for the Architectural Im-

provement of the Western Parts of the Metro-

polis, announced, 137; reviewed, 177.

Sopwith's Isometrical Drawing, 369.

Warren's Hints upon Tints, 86.

Wilkins's Vitruvius, noticed, 372.

Classical Architecture.

Modern Domestic Architecture.

Designs of Doors and Windows, in the Italian

and Palladian Styles, announced, 137.

Goodwin's Domestic Architecture, 44. 132.

Shaw's Specimens of the Details of Elizabethan

Architecture, 85.

Smith's Construction of Cottages for Labourers,

371.

Whitling's Designs for Shop Fronts, 180. 239.

Wild's Elementary and Practical Instructions on

the Art of Building Cottages and Houses for the

humbler Classes, 314. 372.

Views of Buildings recently completed.

Billington's South-west View of the Parish Church

of All Saints, Wakefield, 240.

Cottingham's Prints of his Restoration of Armagh

Cathedral, 239.

Newman's View of the Indigent Blind School,

St. George's Fields, 180.

Wilkinson's Elevation of the National Gallery,

noticed, 372.

Ornaments, chiefly for Fittings-up, Furniture, and

Finishing.

A Compilation of Splendid Ornamental Designs,

from Foreign Works of recent Production, 137.

371.

Carlo Antonini's Antique Roses for the Use of

Architects, &c., 180.

Chippendale's Designs for Sconces, and Chimney

and Looking-glass Frames, in the Old French

Style, announced, 137.

Chippendale's Designs of Interior Decorations in

the Old French Style, for Carvers, &c., an-

nounced, 137.

Designs for Chimney Glasses, of the Time of

Inigo Jones and Sir John Vanbrugh, an-

nounced, 137.

Designs for Vases, announced, 137.

Designs of the Ornaments and Decorations of

Chimneypieces, announced, 137.

Johnson's Book of Ornaments in the French and

Antique Styles, announced, 37.

Cockerell's Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, and King's Working Ornaments, 370.
Antiquities at Egina, announced, 86.
"Dodwell's Cyclopian Remains, 44. 48.
Rochette's Monumens inédits d'Antiquité, 44.
Architectural Antiquities in the Pointed Style.

Brayley's Illustrations of Christ Church, Hamp-

shire, 45.

Knight's Ornaments for Jewellers, &c., 180.

Knight's Unique Fancy Ornaments, 274. 371.

Lane's Ornaments of different Eras, 44.

Coney's Interior Views of Milan Cathedral, 85.

Davis's Abbey Church, Bath (see Davis's Gothic

Ornaments).

Davis's Gothic Ornaments, illustrative of Prior

Birde's Oratory in the Abbey Church, Bath,

131. 238. 370.

Ferrey's Antiquities of Christ Church, Hamp-

shire, 239. 371.

Langes Eglises Gothiques, 45.

Lockwood and Gates's Ancient Gates and Fortifi-

cations of the City of York, announced, 86.

Lockwood and Cates's Antiquities of York. See

Lockwood and Cates's Ancient Gates, &c.

Raine's Catterick Church, in the County of York,

137. 273. 371.

Robinson's Details of Ancient Gates, &c., in York,

announced, 180.

Salvin's Catterick Church. See Raine's Catterick

Church.

Sopwith's Eight Views of Fountains Abbey, 314.

Lock's Book of Ornaments for Carvers, &c., an-

nounced, 137.

Lock, Johnson, and Copland's Ornamental De-

signs, 313.

Maguire's Ornaments in various Styles, 371.

Pether's Book of Ornaments, suitable for Begin-

Shaw's Ornamental Works in Louis XIV.'s Style,

ners, announced, 139.

85.

Shaw's Specimens of Ancient English Furniture,

44. 371.

Trendal's Desings for Interior Finishings, 44. 136.

Uagzin on the Cast-Iron Foundery of Berlin, 44.

Working Ornaments and Forms for the Cabinet-

maker, Upholsterer, &c., 180.

Local Architectural Improvement.

Trotter's Observations and Illustrations of his

modified Plan of a Communication between

the New and Old Towns of Edinburgh, 205.

Engineering.

Alderston's Essay on the Nature and Application

of Steam, announced, 181.

Blunt and Stephenson's Civil Engineer and Me-

chanist, 85. 237. 240. 371.

Hallingworth's Plan and Section of the Water-

ford and Kilkenny Railway, announced, 181.

Jones's Evans on Millwork, 372.

Philips's Analysis of the Defective State of Turn-

pike Roads, announced, 86.

Sopwith's Geological Sections of various Lead

Mines in Northumberland, 372.

Sopwith's Mining Districts of Alston Moor, 372.

CONTENTS.

Practical Architecture and Building.

A few Observations on the Anglo-Norman Style
of Architecture, and its Applicability to Mo.
dern Ecclesiastical Edifices

- 288
On the Gin Temples of the Metropolis
- 164

On London Street Houses and Shop Fronts - 113

A Method of securing Outside Shutters for Shop

Fronts

- 97

- 357

Remarks on Closets, &c., in Sitting-Rooms 348

Specimens of Studies of Plan

- 226

Instructions for choosing a Dwelling-House, more

particularly in a Town

Architecture considered as an Art of Imagin-

ation

145

On the Difference between Common, or Imita-

tive, Genius, and Inventive, or Original, Ge.

nius, in Architecture

185

On those Principles of Composition, in Archi-

tecture, which are acknowledged to be common

to all the Fine Arts

- 217

On those Principles of Composition, in Architec-

ture, which are common to all the Fine Arts :-

Sect. 1. Forms, Lines, Lights, Shades, and

Colours, considered with reference to the

Production of an Architectural Whole, 249

Sect 2. Forms, Lines, Lights, Shades, and

Colours, considered with reference to the

Principle of the Recognition of Art - 281

Sect. 3. Forms, Lines, Lights, Shades, and

Colours, considered with reference to the

Principles of Regularity, Uniformity and

Symmetry

-321

Sect. 4. Forms, Lines, Lights, Shades, and

Colours, considered with reference to the

Principles of Variety, Intricacy, and Har-

mony

- 353

On the alleged Degeneracy of Modern Architec-

ture

. 148

On the comparative Value of Simplicity in Archi-

tecture

- 103

Remarks on the Harmony of Enrichment in

Architecture

255

Architecture considered with reference to its

Claims as a Fine Art

On Character in Architecture

On Uniformity in Architecture

223

324

285

188

On Heraldic Ornaments in Architecture

Architectural Maxims 80. 128. 201. 236. 266. 309.

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357

- 166

• 302

On the Domestic Offices of a House

Notice of some of the Ornamental Chimney Pots

and Shafts manufactured of Artificial Stone by

Mr. Austin of London

- 159

A descriptive Account of the Duke of York's

Monument, accompanied by Plans, Elevations,

and Sections, copied from the Designs of Ben-

jamin Wyatt, Esq., Architect

- 192

descriptive Account, accompanied by Plans,

Elevations, and Sections, of Hungerford New

Market, recently built from the Designs of

Charles Fowler, Esq., Architect

A

- 53

Notice of some Designs for Architectural Foun

tains, manufactured in Artificial Stone by Mr.

Austin of London

- 295

Design for a Villa in the Norman Style

- $33

A Series of Designs, with Descriptive and His.

torical Particulars, of Characteristic and Orna-

mental Buildings, and Objects for Gardens and

Pleasure-Grounds

- 120

Notice of a very common Error in designing and

building Ornamental Chimney Shafts

- 63

On a Method of preventing the Damp from rising

in the Walls of Buildings on Clayey and other

Moist Soils

- 233

On an effectual Method of cutting off the Com-

munication between the damp Foundation of a

Wall built upon a moist Subsoil, and the Part

of the Wall above the Ground; and on a Mode

of securing the Inside of a Wall from damp

forced though the Brickwork by driving Rains,

Hail, Snow, &c.

- 123

On the Use of Cast-Iron and Caithness Flagstone

in the Construction of Fireproof Floors and

Partition Walls in Dwelling-Houses

71

- 234

372

- 312

Elements of Classic Architecture.

On the Extent to which the Elementary Forms On Cast-Iron Angles for Outside Doors

of Classic Architecture are, from their Na-The Art of Brickmaking among the Chinese 125

ture and Origin, fixed or arbitrary

16 On Brickmaking in Egypt

The Elements of Grecian and Roman Architec-On Brickmaking in England

ture practically explained to the General

Reader

108. 153. 259

Vatican

- 77

74

Engineering.

127

Description of an improved Milepost invented by John Robison, Esq., and used on some of the great Roads in Scotland

The Bruges Stove, as improved by Messrs Cot- On Painted Transparent Blinds, and Tape and tam and Hallen Line Preservers Descriptive Notice of the Russel Stove; communicated by Messrs. J. Sibbald and Sons of Edinburgh with Remarks on this Stove, by a Correspondent resident in that City Description of an improved Roasting-Oven Notice of a Marble Table, with a Cast-Iron Pillar, constructed on an economical Principle, under the Direction of John Robison, Esq. - 308 On the Use of Slate and Cast-Iron in Household Furniture

General Subject.

72

41

78

Notice of a Wooden Fence, which may be put
together without the Use of Nails, Screws, or
other Iron Work, invented by G. H. Cottam,
Esq.
Dovetailed Caps for Wooden Fences

REVIEWS.

369

81

Historical and Descriptive. Views and Descriptions of Cyclopian or Pelasgic Remains, in Greece and Italy; with Constructions of a later Period; from Drawings by the late Edward Dodwell, Esq. F.S. A. and Member of several Foreign Academies An Architectural and Historical Account of Crosby Place, London. By Edward L. Blackburn, Architect - 130 Catterick Church, in the County of York; a cor. rect Copy of the Contract for its Building, dated in 1412; illustrated with Remarks and Notes, by the Rev. James Raine, M. A., Librarian of Durham Cathedral, &c.; and with 13 Plates of Views, Elevations, and Details, by Anthony Salvin, Esq. F.S. A., Architect 273 Gothic Ornaments, illustrative of Prior Birde's Oratory, in the Abbey Church, Bath. By Edward Davis, Architect, Bath 131. 238. 370 The Domestic Architecture of the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I., illustrated by a Series of Views of English Mansions, with brief Historical and Descriptive Accounts of each Subject. By T. H. Clarke, Architect - 204

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galore, Corresponding Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 267 A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Five Orders of Architecture: containing the most plain and simple rules for drawing and executing them in the present style; including an historical description of Gothic Architecture, showing its origin, and also a comparison of the Gothic Architecture of England, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, together with details of the first, second, and third-periods of the pointed Arch or Gothic style · 129

Architectural Designs.

Domestic Architecture; being a Second Series of
Designs for Cottages, Lodges, Villas, and other
Residences, in the Grecian, Italian, and Old
English Styles of Architecture. By Francis
Goodwin, Architect

- 132

A Series of original Designs for Shop Fronts, forming a Collection suitable to Persons connected with the Practical Part of Building. By Henry John Whitling, Architect 239

Designs for Ornaments.

A Compilation of splendid Ornamental Designs,
from Foreign Works of recent Production 137
Knight's unique Fancy Ornaments
274
Locke, Johnson, and Copland's Ornamental De.
signs
- 313

Observations on Building and Brickmaking; to
Building.
which are subjoined Extracts from Testimonials
in behalf of S. R. Bakewell's Erickmaking Ma-
chines. By S. R. Bakewell
- 312

Fittings-up and Furniture.
Examples for Interior Finishings. By C. W.
Trendall, Architect

136

Working Ornaments and forms, full Size, and in
various Styles, for the Use of the Cabinet
Manufacturer, Chair and Sofa Maker, Carver,
and Turner; consisting of entirely new De-
signs, in which great Study has been bestowed
in causing a Display without much Expense in
Material or Labour. By T. King, Author of
"The Modern Style of Cabinet Work;
" &c.
Parts I., II., and III. Folio
Engineering.

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