New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

fore the road is opened and the extension of the
Admiralty with two official residences is fin
ished. No date has yet been set for the COM
pletion Of Mr.. Brooks Victorian monument in
front Of buckingham Palace, with Sir Aston
Webb's ornamental approaches and barriers,
and it will be several years before Mr.. Adrian
Jones's quadriga is top of Decimus Bur
tons arch on Constitution Hill. The ring on the
edge Of HYDE Park along Park Lane is in
cluded in the professional circuit, and at the
Oxford street end, near the oldtime site of
Tyburn gallows. is the marble arch, impressively
isolated a higher level, with a spacious en-
vironment Mr.. F. W. sSpeaight is the origi-
rator and designer Of the improvement which
has been carried out in imitation OF the Arc de
Triomphe in Paris.
The art institutions of the metropolis
ceiying generous support from the government
and from private benefactions The South Ken
sington Museum is nearly finished. and while
fault is found with the architectural design OF
the new buildings the interior is well planned,
and spacious halls and galleries will be avail
able for an immense collection of art treasures.
new block is under construction for the Brit
ish Museum which is seriously over
crowded. and the foundations for a wing
to the National gallery have been laid so that
the director look forward to another rear
rangement Of the sections and pictures. The
adjacent ground will be cleared of the remnants
Of barracks and recruiting station. and the Ma
tional Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery
will be properly isolated and protected from the
risks Of fire. All these improvements Mr.. Lewis
Harcourt has been recounting for the encour-
agenent of the patrons of the National Art Col
lections Fund and he has made the important
announcement that Nj. Duveen is to add another
wing TO the Tate Gallery, with six spacious
rooms available for the fairly complete display
of the Turner's. which cannot be adequately seen
at the National Gallery. This will be ample
reparatfon for century of neglect of noble
bequest
Turner left TO the nation enough material to
stock a museum. There were over $50 pictures
and as many 135 finished water color draw
ings. and there we're !. 750 sketches and studies
in color and many thousands of fragments
canvas and color notes paper Ruskin con-
demned the bulk OF the material rubbish, and
it has remained Of sight in the box rooms
and cellars of the National Gallery and neither
the paintings nor the water color drawings have
been advantageously exhibited from lack Of
wall space and light. Yet it was discovered two
years ago, when twenty more of the oils
taken from the boxes and hung in the Tate
Gallery, that the colors were remarka bly, fresh
and that art students had much to learn from the
unfinished works. because the secrets of Turner's
methods of painting revealed. Not a few
experts found these color schemes in the making
more interesting than the faded canvases at the
National Gallery. 1t is probable that a selec-
ton can be made from the remaining works
which will be equally Instructive In the Du-
veen wing of the Tate Gallery there will be
space for comprehensive display of Turner's
works, only a few Of the best pictures being
served for the National Gallery.
Mr.. Harcourt has explained what will be the
next building project of the government on a
large scale. This will be the extension of the
block of ministerial offices from Whitehall to
Storeys Gate, along Great George street and the
construction Of a fine facade in ST. James's Park
in line with the Foreign Office. This will be a
costly scheme, since 1t viii involve the condem-
nation of the handsome structure OF the Engi-
neering Institute and two long rows of houses
in Great George and Delahaye streets. Probably
it Will be ten years before the sites be ac-
Qured and the block OF Offices constructed,
and since Mr. Brydon's design for the new pub
lie offices to be occupied by the local govern
ment board and other departments is to be
closely followed there viii be modern Renais-
sance, ornate and fussy, with upper tiers 0r pill
lars and corner towers or cupolas all the way
from Whitehall to Birdcage Walk. and on the
park side TO the Foreign Office Whitehall. with
Sir Charles Barrys Treasury, the old ban
quoting hall OF lingo Jones, the new War Office.
Brydon's mil -sterial Offices. is already an Ital
ian street leading toward the magnificent Gothic
group. St Margarets and Westminster Abbey.
Its Renaissance effects will be strongly en-
phasized when these plans carried out
4 picturesque group Of old houses will have
to be sacrificed for the new Renaissance facade