The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ched ones, the actual apertures being square-headed—a species of deception anything than either praiseworthy or ingenious, if, onlybecause it must be detected at once on entering the rooms. N
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ched ones, the actual apertures being square-headed—a species of deception anything than either praiseworthy or ingenious, if, onlybecause it must be detected at once on entering the rooms. No doubt, it washad recourse to in order to fill up the space between the tops of the aperturesand the entablature; yet that might have been accomplished differently, by * It is to be regretted that some clubs did not—while they had the opportunity of doing so-concert together to purchase for a building site the entire block of houses between St. James sSquare and Pall Mall. The structures would have had the advantage of a double irontageeither way of a very desirable kind. Although varied in design they would have formed a con-tinuous range of stately facades, an insula similar to that on the west side ot Carlton f^™besides which, St. James Square itself would have been most materially improved, tor tne ,houses which now occupy its south side rather disfigure its general appearance than THS GUARDS CLUB-HOUSES. 301
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