. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1343] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 359 resort to, and by no means calculated to secure our admiration for the intended fncade. Surely the Institute might, on such a highly important occasion, exert themselves a little, and stepping a little out of their ordinary course, might venture, in their character as a public body, to recow- iiu:, that satisfactory information should be communicated relative to the completion of the British Museum, and all pains be taken
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1343] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 359 resort to, and by no means calculated to secure our admiration for the intended fncade. Surely the Institute might, on such a highly important occasion, exert themselves a little, and stepping a little out of their ordinary course, might venture, in their character as a public body, to recow- iiu:, that satisfactory information should be communicated relative to the completion of the British Museum, and all pains be taken to secure its being completed in such manner as to stamp it a national edifice worthy of the nation and of the name it bears-—which it is not likely tn prove by many degrees, if we can obtain no more valid security for its excellence than the former productions of the archi- tect to whom it is now blindly confided. No satisfactory pledge for requisite grandeur and beautv in the facade, is afforded by the archi- tecture of the inner court or quadrangle; on the contrary, if the former is not to be of very superior quality and design, it may as well be at once a mere plain and substantial piece of "homespun" building, making no pretensions to any sort of beauty. The subject is one which affords ample scope for the display of imagination and refined taste ; and to what purpose, I would ask, are subjects of that poetical class—one so very unlikely there should be any after occasion for, proposed to architectural students at the Academy, if, whenever an actual occasion does occur, nothing better than arrant common-place, and dull humdrum, without even a particle of poetry in it, can be provided. Leaving you and your readers to crack me this question, I remain, Yours, and all that, Britannicus. [For inserting the above, in addition to what has already been said in our Journal on the same subject, apology is unnecessary. It is one of exceedingly great importance,
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