. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 100 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [March, mechanical, dry, and repulsive. Whether any of his brother archi- tects will now side with Mr. Gwilt, remains to be seen; but in my own opinion they have very little cause to congratulate themselves upon having a champion in their ranks, who would show his prowess by hewing down, and putting hors cle combat, all the volunteers en- gaged in the same cause. Much liberality I did not expect from Mr. Gwilt, but I certainly d
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 100 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [March, mechanical, dry, and repulsive. Whether any of his brother archi- tects will now side with Mr. Gwilt, remains to be seen; but in my own opinion they have very little cause to congratulate themselves upon having a champion in their ranks, who would show his prowess by hewing down, and putting hors cle combat, all the volunteers en- gaged in the same cause. Much liberality I did not expect from Mr. Gwilt, but I certainly did suppose that he would exercise a little more discretion than he has done. I did not, for instance, imagine that he would allow his antipathy to German architecture to prevail so far, as to give no account of any of the numerous fine buildings erected in that country during the last 30 years; and as not to applaud the zeal -with which'architecture is there cultivated, if he could not say much in favour of the taste displayed in it. Had he done soâand the same â with regard to other countries, those chapters of his work might have been made to contain a great deal of quite fresh and valuable in- formation. The reason assigned by him for not doing so, is a most flimsy and childish oneâperfectly ridiculous; for according to that, there ought to be no such thing as criticism on contemporary works at all; nor ought any to have yet appeared relative to those of a Thor- waldsen, a Cornelius, and other great living masters in their respective arts. Besides, he might have executed that part of his lask very in- voctntly, and without giving the slightest umbrage to any one, by ab- staining altogether from criticism and comment, and confining him- self to description and mere matter-of-fact information. At pre- sent, his apology for passing over altogether what be was conscious â would naturally be looked for, sounds too much like the fox'sâ" the grapes are ; The rea
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