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The Masonic hall must provide for meetings of Lodge , Chapter , and Lodge of Instruction , for lectures , for a library and reading room , and for the social intercourse and refreshment of members- ^ ahd this , inany decent town , a few years' contributions will amply provide . The utmost difficulty to be contended with is a large outlay in the beginning , which should be met by loan , if possible without interest .
We may observe that the three apartments , which should form the minimum of accommodation , may be variously arranged , and that an organ may be so placed as to serve both the Temple and the banquet room , or the Lodge of Instruction when held in the latter . Last week ' s Magazme contained a letter , signed iC P . M ., " on the Masonic property , which should not pass unnoticed . He refers to the great inconveflieiice which provincial Masons are subjected to in
attending Grand Lodge and other celebrations in Freemasons' Hall ; and he justly says it would be a great boon if one could obtain a bed at a moderate price . We may observe that at the Reform Club the upper part of the club is laid out in dormitories , for the use of members requiring a bed for the night , which arrangement answers the purpose of the members and the club , as the management Is very siniple . I ) ormitories would , if provided in Great Queen Street , in time afford the convenience required , and produce a considerable income .
ARCHITECTURAL MEETINGS . The course of lectures on architecture at the South Kensington Museum , was inaugurated on Wednesday evening last by a lecture from Mr . Beresford , M . P . for Maidstone , who selected for his subject " The Common Sense of Art . " There was a very full attendance of what might be called the art public . The honourable gentleman having
commented upon the different phases of art , such as the prose of art and the poetry of art , proceeded to refer to the common sense of art , which , in his opinion , was above prose and beyond poetry . The great difficulty in considering a subject of this sort was , to ascertain where we should take our stand . He assumed as a certainty that our art , for the future , would be founded upon the Gothic , but he was of
opinion that we should have something more broad and comprehensive for our starting point , and that we must eclect out of everything collected , and thus bring together for ourselves some middle school from all and every age . Referring to the common sense of the sister arts of painting and sculpture , Mr . Hope said that he honoured the men who rebelled against the trite conventionalities of the Academy , and
who relied upon tradition arid nature for the canons which should guide them in their art ; but he confessed he did not like rudeness for rudeness sake . He was prepared to go with them in repudiating the vulgar commonplaceness of the academical models , because their beauty was of the vulgar and inferior sort ; but he was of opinion that the best protest was , not to represent with startling accuracy vulgar
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
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The Masonic hall must provide for meetings of Lodge , Chapter , and Lodge of Instruction , for lectures , for a library and reading room , and for the social intercourse and refreshment of members- ^ ahd this , inany decent town , a few years' contributions will amply provide . The utmost difficulty to be contended with is a large outlay in the beginning , which should be met by loan , if possible without interest .
We may observe that the three apartments , which should form the minimum of accommodation , may be variously arranged , and that an organ may be so placed as to serve both the Temple and the banquet room , or the Lodge of Instruction when held in the latter . Last week ' s Magazme contained a letter , signed iC P . M ., " on the Masonic property , which should not pass unnoticed . He refers to the great inconveflieiice which provincial Masons are subjected to in
attending Grand Lodge and other celebrations in Freemasons' Hall ; and he justly says it would be a great boon if one could obtain a bed at a moderate price . We may observe that at the Reform Club the upper part of the club is laid out in dormitories , for the use of members requiring a bed for the night , which arrangement answers the purpose of the members and the club , as the management Is very siniple . I ) ormitories would , if provided in Great Queen Street , in time afford the convenience required , and produce a considerable income .
ARCHITECTURAL MEETINGS . The course of lectures on architecture at the South Kensington Museum , was inaugurated on Wednesday evening last by a lecture from Mr . Beresford , M . P . for Maidstone , who selected for his subject " The Common Sense of Art . " There was a very full attendance of what might be called the art public . The honourable gentleman having
commented upon the different phases of art , such as the prose of art and the poetry of art , proceeded to refer to the common sense of art , which , in his opinion , was above prose and beyond poetry . The great difficulty in considering a subject of this sort was , to ascertain where we should take our stand . He assumed as a certainty that our art , for the future , would be founded upon the Gothic , but he was of
opinion that we should have something more broad and comprehensive for our starting point , and that we must eclect out of everything collected , and thus bring together for ourselves some middle school from all and every age . Referring to the common sense of the sister arts of painting and sculpture , Mr . Hope said that he honoured the men who rebelled against the trite conventionalities of the Academy , and
who relied upon tradition arid nature for the canons which should guide them in their art ; but he confessed he did not like rudeness for rudeness sake . He was prepared to go with them in repudiating the vulgar commonplaceness of the academical models , because their beauty was of the vulgar and inferior sort ; but he was of opinion that the best protest was , not to represent with startling accuracy vulgar