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I. Our Architectural Chapter.
let on a lease of twenty-fouryears , the rent being £ 400 a year for the first h ^ lf of the term , ^ valuation of this property is very low , as it has been long since acquired , and rents in Paris have of late years much increased , Some of the fittings , particularly those used for receptions in the high degrees , are of a very splendid description , and would do honour to any Masonic community . It is most creditable to the Grand Orient
of France , that in periods of great difficulty , exposed to schism from within and to persecution from without , this Temple has been constructed and preserved . < The ^ loyal Gloucester Lodge , at Southampton , are said to have a Masonic Hall , in Bugle Street , but we believe it is a room in one of
the hotels . The Portsea Lodge style thgir place of meeting ,.. " The Masonic Hall , " St . George ' s Square . A somewhat amusing ease , illustrative of the costly and tedious process of " referring a ease to arbitration is just now presented in Myers v . Sari , an action brought by a contractor to recover his bill ,
the items of which have been admitted to be correct by the defendant ' s own architect and surveyor . It seems that there have been several meetings in this notable case , and that the cost of each Meeting is calculated at six shillings and sixpence per minute ! This may be very pleasant for the lawyers , but the unfortunate plaintiff and defendant are not likely to get even the shell each . The oyster itself has of course been swallowed long ago .
AKCHlTlCTURAXi - MEETINGS , The Royal Institute of British Architects met on Monday , Mr . J . J . Scoles in the chair , when Mr , John Bell , the eminent sculptor , read a paper on the " Geometrical Treatment of Sculpture . " A long debate ensued , in which Mr . Parris , Mr . Bonomi , Professor Donaldson , Mr . Kerr , Mr . Charles Barry , and others took part . Mr . Kerr
requested some information as to the cost of a statue , remarking that architects , however willing they might be to call in sculpture to their assistance , were practically debarred by the costly nature of such embellishments . Mr . Kerr added , that when he was at Edinburgh some years ago , he had been informed that a statue the size of life might be produced out of the stone of the district for fifty pounds . This
announcement excited a good deal of merriment , and Mr . C . H . Smith said that it reminded him of the cheap portraits , marked up " This style for five shillings ! " It was quite clear , from the observations of Mr . Kerr that his was a Scottish mode of dealing with the question . Perhaps that gentleman was not aware that the journeyman ' s wages to be paid to the " carver" of a life size statue , for chipping away the superfluous stone alone would cost seventy pounds . Mr . Bell expressed his willingness to afford the meeting all the information in his power with reference to the prime cost of a statue . He had executed
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I. Our Architectural Chapter.
let on a lease of twenty-fouryears , the rent being £ 400 a year for the first h ^ lf of the term , ^ valuation of this property is very low , as it has been long since acquired , and rents in Paris have of late years much increased , Some of the fittings , particularly those used for receptions in the high degrees , are of a very splendid description , and would do honour to any Masonic community . It is most creditable to the Grand Orient
of France , that in periods of great difficulty , exposed to schism from within and to persecution from without , this Temple has been constructed and preserved . < The ^ loyal Gloucester Lodge , at Southampton , are said to have a Masonic Hall , in Bugle Street , but we believe it is a room in one of
the hotels . The Portsea Lodge style thgir place of meeting ,.. " The Masonic Hall , " St . George ' s Square . A somewhat amusing ease , illustrative of the costly and tedious process of " referring a ease to arbitration is just now presented in Myers v . Sari , an action brought by a contractor to recover his bill ,
the items of which have been admitted to be correct by the defendant ' s own architect and surveyor . It seems that there have been several meetings in this notable case , and that the cost of each Meeting is calculated at six shillings and sixpence per minute ! This may be very pleasant for the lawyers , but the unfortunate plaintiff and defendant are not likely to get even the shell each . The oyster itself has of course been swallowed long ago .
AKCHlTlCTURAXi - MEETINGS , The Royal Institute of British Architects met on Monday , Mr . J . J . Scoles in the chair , when Mr , John Bell , the eminent sculptor , read a paper on the " Geometrical Treatment of Sculpture . " A long debate ensued , in which Mr . Parris , Mr . Bonomi , Professor Donaldson , Mr . Kerr , Mr . Charles Barry , and others took part . Mr . Kerr
requested some information as to the cost of a statue , remarking that architects , however willing they might be to call in sculpture to their assistance , were practically debarred by the costly nature of such embellishments . Mr . Kerr added , that when he was at Edinburgh some years ago , he had been informed that a statue the size of life might be produced out of the stone of the district for fifty pounds . This
announcement excited a good deal of merriment , and Mr . C . H . Smith said that it reminded him of the cheap portraits , marked up " This style for five shillings ! " It was quite clear , from the observations of Mr . Kerr that his was a Scottish mode of dealing with the question . Perhaps that gentleman was not aware that the journeyman ' s wages to be paid to the " carver" of a life size statue , for chipping away the superfluous stone alone would cost seventy pounds . Mr . Bell expressed his willingness to afford the meeting all the information in his power with reference to the prime cost of a statue . He had executed