The Press.
London, England, 1858-06-26 00:00:00

Mr. James, No.
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have been somew
halt done ; an -
eengregation
tions, but we
*tent is the
ornament shows
structures planned
are more like
building at th(
nothing that is
interfere with

neeebsary for
beauty. This .
tecta, not merely
buildings of every
one making even an
Besides these
in the architectural
bition • moat of the
repeatedibo a wearisome
interest, fps apesial reasons; such as Sir C. foggy%
desigskothe public offices, of which he patgines
that** !resent wretelted edifice in l'aelsaggent-
street shall form a part; the prize designs of Masers.
Banks and Barry, Mr. Coe, and Mr. Garlingimbich
have been already exhibited at Weetnainnthiesli ;
Mr. Street's view of St. Dionis Baelreintrehifikiwa-
ohurchatreet, as proposed to be rebuilt r •Iher new
• the elstralian

, . .
degree to our interest. in the performance of so but fit for any purpose to wrocti men may cnoosa oburchstreet, as propoeect to oe replan ; inn new
',l Italian opera; but it only adds something small to to apply it. This idea must spread and prevail—this Westminaterbridge, by lir. Page ; the eloratinn of
something else immeasurably greater. It is scarcely Gothic art must move along with the times, or the the Westminster-palace Hotel, by Mosera..Meeeley,
possible to imagine much enjoyment resulting from = taste will be left behind like a worn-out and of the proposed Royal Albert Hotel. by- Mr.
the perusal of the libretto of (say) Lucrezia Borgia, ;if change does not come naturally of itself, Ridley ; the East India Company's new sentpture-
' or from listening to a bad tragedy delivered by the it will come violently and unnaturally. We are ball, in the Oriental style, by Mr. Wyntb t• abs new
most musical-tongued actors. Au Italian tragic n told that men had better keep to good models Operatouse, by Mr. F. M. Haw i anti lifin-Viyatt's re-
opera, and an English tragic play, mar produce an risk a failure in attempting to improve upon cent restorations of Wimborns. Minster. Among the
nearly the same effects on an English audience, but In ; that the architects who thirty years ago tried studies from the antique are MIl. Animitel's °4' View
those effects spring from very different sources.. In Improve upon the Gothic, produced only " Oar- of Ancient Rome from tbs Palaillerlisont, =stored
penter's Gothic ; " and that we have done better since from the existing remains; Mr...ll4lemeola m int,-
the one case, the words uttered &reaolmbert° the,(rtn-
*Ma,
dation of that effect ; whilst, in the,
in abandoning all each ideas. We do not doubt nor of the Parthenon at Athens, with, the Glossal
delight in the opera, notwithstand i
..ng, *; n
most
that changes made without reason or against reason Statue of Minerva by Phiclies.-min Attempt to Ex-
a commonplace language, or weary of ,iti. in sptin of are useless and absurd ; but there is good reason for hibit the C tine Snulpanre of the. An-
.?'.. the Most interesting of librettos, igtun, for the due change enough to supply all that the public wants Glottis i" *Ws 0. illi " MallWgenek Si Bali-
hensiOn and a Preciation of histrionic 'in the way of originality. No one denies that in carnassue ;".
comkre !du 11 vl f Mama
::. . tragediii .thit, atm;
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