. Essays and Belles Lettres. cenery or destroy it ; whatever youdo has an effect of one kind or the other; it is neverindifferent. But, above all, remember that it is chiefly byprivate, not by public, effort that your city must be does not matter how many beautiful public buildings youpossess, if they are not supported by, and in harmony with,the private houses of the town. Neither the mind nor the Architecture and Painting 55 eye will accept a new college, or a new hospital, or a newinstitution, for a city. It is the Canongate, and the PrincesStreet, and the High Street that are Ed
. Essays and Belles Lettres. cenery or destroy it ; whatever youdo has an effect of one kind or the other; it is neverindifferent. But, above all, remember that it is chiefly byprivate, not by public, effort that your city must be does not matter how many beautiful public buildings youpossess, if they are not supported by, and in harmony with,the private houses of the town. Neither the mind nor the Architecture and Painting 55 eye will accept a new college, or a new hospital, or a newinstitution, for a city. It is the Canongate, and the PrincesStreet, and the High Street that are Edinburgh. It is inyour own private houses that the real majesty of Edinburghmust consist; and, what is more, it must be by your ownpersonal interest that the style of the architecture whichrises around you must be principally guided. Do not thinkthat you can have good architecture merely by paying for is not by subscribing liberally for a large building once inforty years that you can call up architects and ?fA/r Fig. i. It is only by active and sympathetic attention to thedomestic and every jlay work which is done for each of you,that you can educate either yourselves to the feeling, or yourbuilders to the doing, of what is truly great. Well but, you will answer, you cannot feel interested inarchitecture: you do not care about it, and cannot careabout it. I know you cannot. \About such architecture asis built now-a-days, no mortal ever did or could care. Youdo not feel interested in hearing the same thing over andover again ^—why do you suppose you can feel interestedin seeing the same thing over and over again, were that thingeven the best and most beautiful in the world? Now, youall know the kind of window which you usualh build in 56 Architecture and Painting Edinburgh : here (fig. i.) is an example of the head of one,a massy lintel of a single stone, laid across from sideto side, with bold square-cut jambs—in fact, the simplestform it is possible to
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