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great admirer of Battersea Park , in which he has taken a it is possible he may give his adhesion in favour of Albert Palace being erected there . If so , all chance of South Kensington being selected will be at an end .
The National Discount Office , in Cornhill , has now made such progress , that its highly decorative character and elegant proportions caii be recognized , the more particularly as every day the tools of the sculptors bring out some rich ornament . The passers by now daily stop to see it in the sheen of its iiew stone . From Throgmorton-street it shows as a large
building ; but its fenestrated front there appears too much cut up , and , in fact , the line of Royal Exchange Buildings , full of windows , exaggerates this characteristic , but from about the middle of the area at the east end of the Royal Exchange , the Discount Office shows in fine proportions . It is one of the finest examples we have as yet , of the French type of Italian which is now coming into so much favour .
There is a e ontroversy , and not without reason , in consequence of the Jenner statue being placed in Trafalgar-square , The seated statue of that great benefactor instead of being regarded as placed in a Walhalla of worthies , is treated as disturbing still farther the monumental ^ <^ the square , and giving it the title of an omnium gatherum . There can be no want of sites for the statue of one so noble as Jenner , and it is deeply to he regretted such a mistake should be made . When the statue of the great Havelock comes on the other side of the Nelson column the ill effect of the arrangement will be the more-obvious .
War.
WAR .
BY BRO . CHAS . JAS . KILPItf , I . i ( Ah lovely maid , why heaves thy breast With many a thrilling sigh-Why pants thy heart with grief oppress d—What dims thy lovely eye ?
n . " I go unto the battle-field To fight for Britain ' s fame , And if I die I'll leave to thee A bright unsullied name . "
IIT . He ceased—the maid whom he ador'd Theii spake a last farewell ; He , fighting for his country ' s cause , In battle nobly fell .
iir . She sought him ' midst the din of war , And found him cold in death ; And , praying o ' er his gory corse , She then resigned her breath . Maraate . June . 1858 .
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Que Architectural Chapter.
great admirer of Battersea Park , in which he has taken a it is possible he may give his adhesion in favour of Albert Palace being erected there . If so , all chance of South Kensington being selected will be at an end .
The National Discount Office , in Cornhill , has now made such progress , that its highly decorative character and elegant proportions caii be recognized , the more particularly as every day the tools of the sculptors bring out some rich ornament . The passers by now daily stop to see it in the sheen of its iiew stone . From Throgmorton-street it shows as a large
building ; but its fenestrated front there appears too much cut up , and , in fact , the line of Royal Exchange Buildings , full of windows , exaggerates this characteristic , but from about the middle of the area at the east end of the Royal Exchange , the Discount Office shows in fine proportions . It is one of the finest examples we have as yet , of the French type of Italian which is now coming into so much favour .
There is a e ontroversy , and not without reason , in consequence of the Jenner statue being placed in Trafalgar-square , The seated statue of that great benefactor instead of being regarded as placed in a Walhalla of worthies , is treated as disturbing still farther the monumental ^ <^ the square , and giving it the title of an omnium gatherum . There can be no want of sites for the statue of one so noble as Jenner , and it is deeply to he regretted such a mistake should be made . When the statue of the great Havelock comes on the other side of the Nelson column the ill effect of the arrangement will be the more-obvious .
War.
WAR .
BY BRO . CHAS . JAS . KILPItf , I . i ( Ah lovely maid , why heaves thy breast With many a thrilling sigh-Why pants thy heart with grief oppress d—What dims thy lovely eye ?
n . " I go unto the battle-field To fight for Britain ' s fame , And if I die I'll leave to thee A bright unsullied name . "
IIT . He ceased—the maid whom he ador'd Theii spake a last farewell ; He , fighting for his country ' s cause , In battle nobly fell .
iir . She sought him ' midst the din of war , And found him cold in death ; And , praying o ' er his gory corse , She then resigned her breath . Maraate . June . 1858 .