. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Fig. of First Floor, Windous and Fig. 2.—PIftn of Ground Floor Windows and Balustrade. * Height from pavement to bases of coltimna 19ft. Oiii. Height ol'culunios .. .. ., '^ia ^ „ entaMafjre .. .. .. 7 rt „ balustrade .. .. .. 4 6 ,. altic .. .. .. 11 0 Entire height. f,- CANDIDUS'S NOTE-BOOK. FASCICULUS LXX. " I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the winds, To blow on whom I ; I. As Wigbtwick vows to go, , to Naples and eat
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Fig. of First Floor, Windous and Fig. 2.—PIftn of Ground Floor Windows and Balustrade. * Height from pavement to bases of coltimna 19ft. Oiii. Height ol'culunios .. .. ., '^ia ^ „ entaMafjre .. .. .. 7 rt „ balustrade .. .. .. 4 6 ,. altic .. .. .. 11 0 Entire height. f,- CANDIDUS'S NOTE-BOOK. FASCICULUS LXX. " I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the winds, To blow on whom I ; I. As Wigbtwick vows to go, , to Naples and eat macaroni there, it is to be hoped that he will not forget to bring back with him some pen- and-ink sketchings—and if he like, some pencil sketches, too, of the recent architecture of that city. There is suflicient ^aiu/um of that kind for his pen,—the church, for, inslance, by that unl^'agkrized uobody, Bianchi. And let him portray ihat aud whatever other buildings he speaks of, archi- tecturally, so that we may be able to make out a tolerably distinct image of it, not a mere forndess, shapeless Ossianic spectre. Let him take a lesson from the novelists:—they after all are the people for exact and con- scientious description ; they are content with nothing less than that of giv- ing us a complete inventory of a heroine's "personals," noting every item separately,—though with all their exactitude they uever inform us of her exact weight—the weight of a mortal "; As to Vesuvius, we can very well dispense with any remarks on that from ^V'ightwick; so let him eschew speaking of its crater—that bore of tremendous calibre,—or we shall wish that he had fairly Jumped into it, and like Empedocles, distin- guished by extinguishing himself within it. II. It is curious that we should be indebted to a Cookery book for a detailed plan of the kitchen offices in the Keform Club-house. Al. Soyer has supplied a leaf that was very much wanted in arch
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