. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1844.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 451 » present amount to about eighty, or half the number proposed, are 1 uniform in size, and in the Hermes fashion; and in regard to them e mav here endeavour to meet an objection likely to be made. That there should be no statues, but only busts, may at first strike as rather a strange circumstance, inasmuch as the latter maybe thought somewhat insignificant, and merely accessory objects in comparison with the sple"ndi
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1844.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 451 » present amount to about eighty, or half the number proposed, are 1 uniform in size, and in the Hermes fashion; and in regard to them e mav here endeavour to meet an objection likely to be made. That there should be no statues, but only busts, may at first strike as rather a strange circumstance, inasmuch as the latter maybe thought somewhat insignificant, and merely accessory objects in comparison with the sple"ndid building in which they are deposited. No doubt they are so, if considered individually, but certainly not, when considered collect- ively, for then they make a prodigious sum total, and their importance and interest become in keeping with the architecture around them. Certain it is that not one half of the same number of statues could have been properly arranged within the same space, and what is not least of all deserving consideration is, that by busts being adopted, one ex- ceedingly great difficulty has been entirely got over, we mean that of costume. In this respect, some of the earlier figures might have proved suitable enough for sculpture, but then the later ones would have contrasted very disagreeably, not to say ridiculously, with them. So represented, would Mozart and Goethe have seemed to have been of the same race, of the Germanic stock, as Otto der Grosse, and Friedrich der Rothbart? The sculptors employed upon the former would consequently have worked at a very great disadvantage com- pared with those who were favoured by the costume of the other figures, which, besides being more picturesque in itself, admits of being treated more freely. However skillfully managed, Goethe's coat would have been in our eyes, merely the very prosaic outside of a great poetical intellect. In most, if not all of the modern statues there would have been too much of the tailor and
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