The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-09 00:00:00

AUGUST 9, 1847.

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DOUGLAS JZRROLD. -
The best paper in the present number i,s, entitled
" The Climax of the Middle Age Mania Exhi-
bitions at Westminster," being a richly deserved and
well laid-on scourging of the stupid idolatry which
the Puseyites began, and the Puginites have consutli
'mated. Listen to these words of truthful comment
anent that much-lauded and costly piece of gilt gin-
gerbread, the new House of Lords :
" The eye is dazzled, and the imagination is for the
moment captivated ; but only for a moment; for when
the judgment begins to operate, the charm is at once
found to be identical with that communicated in
beholding a beautiful toy, or a 'cunningly-manufactured
curiosity. You find that your admiration has been won
by the finical fidelity with which the barbaric beauty of
a past and dark age has been reproduced. The associa-
tions called up by your eye, though most agreeable, are
truly discordant, when the pleasing impression sinks
into the mind, and commences the operation of thought.
Then it is you ask, What is this?—a _hall for legislative
wisdom to deliberate in, or a fairy palace?—a chamber
in which the solid welfare of a large proportion of the
civilised world is influenced—or a fragile production of
Mr. Gunter, the confectioner—an edifice by Mr. Brad-
well, the eminent manufacturer of the last scenes of
pantomimes?
"In short, when the effect of the praises which have
already been lavished by some portion of the press on
this flimsy interior has cooled off,—when the public eye
has recovered its sight after the blinding gorgeousness
of the decorations, the deplorable conviction wit/ follow,
that the opening of the new House of Lords has
awakened the sanguine for art from a very noble vision,
and put to flight all expectation of the immediate resus-
citation of true taste. Not that the dream has been
dispelled by the rough hand of a coarse and shocking
disappointment, but by the light touch of a bright and
dazzling deception,; for the new House of Lords, as a
house for legislative purposes, really is a deception; but
we must own a very pretty one.
" Bring the apartment to what bar you will, it is a mis-
take—morally, historically, and artistically, an error.
Let us see how inspection of it affects the mind morally 1
—the very first point of view in which all works, pre-
tending to the rank of works of art, should be consi-
dered—for the end of all art is emotion.
" Architecture, and its helpmate, Decorative Art,
have only done their office well when they have raised in
the mind emotions accordant with the special purposes
for which their creations are intended. The gay deco-
rations of the theatre or ball-room help on the impres-
sion of pleasure and recreation of which they are the
scenes. The sober plainness of the hall of justice leaves
the faculties to the free exercise of the grave duties to
be performed in it; the massive grandeur of the cathedral
imparts a sentiment of awe and of veneration; but what
emotion can be expected from a House of Lords tricked
out in party colours and gold-leaf ? Will the spectator
feel that he is in a chamber devoted to the performance
of the highest functions of the State ? Will it recal
the sufferings of Essex, or the eloquence of Chatham ?
Or will not the black-leaded plaster casts, the gro-
tesquely-costumed figures stained in glass, the dazzling
ceiling, the rose-powdered carpet, the mastic-studded
rails, and the orchestra-like reporters' gallery, put him
in mind of a modern mediaeval fancy ball, and make him
sigh for Jullien's band, and a partner in ruffle and laced
stomacher ?
" The attempt to suggest historical associations has
been made with equal ill-success. From one of the ori-
ginal specifications put forth for the instruction of the
artist-competitors by the Royal Commission of Fine
Arts, it was to be inferred that the hall should have been
suggestive of various periods of history, by means chiefly
of frescoes illustrating prominent events in British annals.
The house, as it is, on the contrary, is suggestive of
only one period of history—unhappily, the worst pus
sible for the interest of true art—that when Gothic art
was in its infancy ; when forms were badly con-
ceived and clumsily limned, for the want of skill ;
when kings and queens were stained on glass with
straight claws, because fingers and toes were beyond
the imitative powers of the primitive draughts-
man ; when the British lion was made to bear a
desperate resepiblance to the equally-fabulous griffin;
when, in short, monkish art was too young to round off
the grotesque into the beautiful. The rennaissants de-
corators have servilely copied these bad forms—and this
brings us to consider the subject in its artistic bearings.
" Blind to everything but the dark ages and the
blazing beauty of primitive colour and heraldic gaud,
they have produced a general effect by which it is im-
possible to lead' the imagination captive through the
' dim vistas of hoary antiquity; and this impossibility
resides in the very fi principle from which they start.
Overlooking one of tle true causes of the sensations
awakened by antique forms and objects--veneration—
tlea3- auu linutielsl °clue otaxonry with wnicn tam wont
is covered, destroys that emotion. They have forgotten
that no cunning of the mortal artificer can create the
effect which the most efficient, though the slowest of all
workmen, Time, so unerringly produces. It is because
the slow destroyer has dimmed the flaring gaudiness of
mediaeval decorations that they please the eye of the
amateur, because Time has toned down and softened the
puerile splendours of a monkish age, which were cha-
racteristic of a state of infant art, and which are only
interesting now historically, as indications of what art
was. But deliberately, painfully, to reproduce these
puerilities in the healthy utility and the vigorous man-
hood of this age, can only be deplored as a substantive
anachronism. Everything calculated to associate the ball
with strength and power has been ' sicklied over' with
spangles and paint. The oak which furnishes
' The wooden walls of old England'
has contributed the throne of the new House of Lords,
but only to be concealed by gilt and coloured frippery.
The stone carvings are hidden behind red, blue, and
yellow pigment, and the walls are covered with childish
legends, traced, luckily, in such extremely gothic cha-
racters, that nobody can read them. In justice, how-
ever, we mast not omit a single characteristic of the
present time. One of the legends establishes a full re-
cognition of the ' Fifth Estate'—the Press. Over a
lobby of entrance is written in Gothic characters, ' To
the Reporters' Gallery.'
" But what is the use of a reporters' gallery within
walls where the cry of ' Hear ! hear I' is uttered in vain
—where eloquence might as well have no tongue—and
where he that hath ears to hear can not hear ? It is
said, that the Frenchman who first made sugar from
beet-root produced a capital article—to look at. It was
exquisitely white; its crystallization was dazzlingly per-
fect; it had, in short, only one fault—it wasnot sweet. The
story applies to this new hall for oratory and audience ;
nothing can be prettier to look at, but it is adapted for
many things better than for speaking and hearing."
The adventures of Young Watson are continued up
to the period when he sought refuge with Mr. Holl
in Camden-town, and Mr. Horne gives us an
~ aaddnid-
tional chapter of his " Dreamer and Worker,
Paul Bell another of his amusing " Illustrations of
Social Life." There are several other excellent papers
in this number, but no continuation of "Juniper
Hedgehog." Let us hope that the cabman will
"come out strong" next month on the elections.