Chapter VI: increases in interest, and is devoted to the TEMPLE OF AMMON

“The Temple of Ammon, the remains of which archæologists, for
many powerful reasons, agree are extant in the enormous pile
known as the Temple of Karnac, is by far the most extensive,
as well as the most ancient, of the Theban edifices; properly
belonging to the whole period of the monarchy, and may
with propriety be termed the _Temple of the Pharaohs_, the
majority of whom, in succession, more particularly such as
are celebrated in history, contributed their efforts to its
enlargement and magnificence. From numerous authorities it
seems clear that HAM, the son of NOAH, the AMUN, AMMON, or
OSIRIS of the Egyptians, must be considered as the original
founder of Thebes, or the city of Ammon, as his son MIZRAIM,
MISOR, or MENES, was by common consent the founder of Memphis;
so that the temple of Ammon or Ham was, in all probability,
originally named from its founder, like the Temple of Solomon
at Jerusalem.”

We cannot take our readers along with us as we would by quoting largely from this interesting chapter, nor will we presume to dispose of the work by this brief and imperfect notice; it deserves much more at our hands; it is written with an enlarged feeling, and a genuine spirit of devotion to the sublime art upon which it treats; it is erudite, and occasionally profound; but we must take our leave of it for the present, concluding with another extract from the same chapter.

“The remains of Karnac are about 2,500 feet from the banks of
the Nile, on an artificial elevation, surrounded by a brick
wall, about 6,300 yards in circuit. The chief front of the
temple (the western) is turned towards the river, with which it
was connected by an alley of colossal crio-sphinxes, leading
down to the bank of the river. Here the devotee would land who
came from a distance to the shrine of Ammon, and with amazement
and a feeling of religious awe would he slowly walk along
between the majestic and tranquil sphinxes to the still more
magnificent propylæ of the building. This colossal entrance is
about 360 feet long and 148 high; the great door in the middle
is 64 feet high. Passing through this door-way, he would enter
a long court, occupied by a row of pillars on the north and
south sides, and a double row of taller pillars running down
the middle. These pillars terminated opposite to two colossal
statues in front of a second propylon, through which, after
ascending a flight o’ twenty-seven steps, we enter the great
hypostyle hall, which had a flat stone roof, supported by one
hundred and thirty-four colossal pillars, some of which are
twenty-six feet in circumference, and others thirty-four. The
width of this magnificent hall (for the entrance is in the
centre of the longest side) is about 338 feet, and the length
or depth 170 feet. The centre column supported a clere-story,
in which were small windows. Four beautiful obelisks mark the
entrance to the adytum, which consists of three apartments
entirely of granite. The centre or principal room is 20 feet
long, 16 wide, and 13 feet high. Three blocks of granite form
the roof, which is painted with clusters of gilt stars on a
blue ground. Beyond this are other porticos and galleries,
which have been continued to another propylon at the distance
of 2,000 feet from that at the western extremity of the temple.”

_English Patents for 1841._ By ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I., &c. Whitaker and Co., London. 2s. 6d.

We had commenced the selection of a list of patents from this excellent compendium, with the intention of laying before our readers all those pertaining to the Building Art, but found that we should have to reprint nearly the whole of the book; so comprehensive is the range we have chosen, and so ingenious the class we have the honour to serve. Of 441 patents herein entered, by far the largest proportion are as we have stated; and we can only, therefore, refer to the work itself. Besides the above list of patents, there is appended a copy of Letters Patent, an abstract of the Registration of Designs Act, and a notice respecting its operation, concluding with a useful Index, which shews at one glance what you would refer to. The value of such a work as this is not to be estimated. All persons intending to take out patents should look over its pages, as it may save much trouble and expense. We know of many who would have been great gainers had they had such a guide at their elbows.

MISCELLANEOUS.

There is a consideration which entitles architecture to a decided pre-eminence amongst the other arts. It is itself the parent of many separate professions, and requires a combination of talents and an extent of knowledge for which other professions have not the smallest occasion. An acquaintance with the sciences of geometry and mechanical philosophy, with the arts of sculpture and design, and other abstruse and elegant branches of knowledge, are indispensable requisites in the education of a good architect, and raise his art to a vast height above those professions which practice alone can render familiar, and which consist in the mere exertion of muscular force. From these considerations it appears there is some foundation in the very nature of architecture for those extraordinary privileges to which masons have always laid claim, and which they have almost always possessed—privileges which no other artists could have confidence to ask, or liberty to enjoy.—_Ency. Brit., Vol. XIV., p. 280._

ALISON ON FRENCH ARCHITECTURE.—In France we find that public works have been reared at an expense not exceeding that of edifices of little or no excellence in our own country, even although the charges of building are not materially different in the two countries. So true it is, that the most essential elements in architectural beauty—genius and taste in the architect, are beyond the power of mere wealth to command—that it is not money to construct beautiful edifices, but the mind to conceive them, which is generally wanting. It would seem, therefore, that it is the pure taste and noble conceptions of the artists of Southern Europe, rather than in any great excellence in the materials at their command, or the wealth of which they have the disposal, to which we must ascribe their remarkable superiority to those of this country.

DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, PICCADILLY.—The additions and alterations which are being made to this fine old mansion, the residence of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, are proceeding rapidly, and will add considerably to the extent as well as to its internal arrangements. Mr. Decimus Burton is the architect, and Messrs. Woolcott and Son are the contractors, for these works, which will yet take many months to complete. The Duke is for the present staying at his princely abode, Chatsworth.

CHURCH EXTENSION.—There are now twelve new churches building, or about to be commenced, in various parts of the metropolis; one in the Kent-road, in the parish of St. George, Southwark; one in the parish of Paddington; another on the site of the Old Broadway Chapel, Westminster; a large church, with a lofty Gothic tower, in which a musical peal of bells is to be placed, in Wilton-square, Knightsbridge; three in Bethnal-green parish, and a church in St. Pancras parish. Sites have been chosen for a new church in the Waterloo-road district of Lambeth parish; another in St. Botolph Without, Aldgate, in the county of Middlesex; and a third in St. George’s-in-the-East. The new parish church of St. Giles’s, Camberwell, building on the site of the old edifice, which was destroyed by fire, is progressing rapidly, and will be a noble and spacious edifice. The new church at Paddington will be a great ornament to that neighbourhood. The University of Durham has granted 400_l._ towards the erection of a new church at South Shields. It is intended to build a new Roman Catholic Church in the eastern part of the metropolis. The site chosen is a large piece of ground on the south side of the Commercial-road, and it is expected that the total cost of the edifice and the purchase of the ground will not fall short of 30,000_l._

NOTICES.

TO ADVERTISERS.—_This first impression of Five Thousand is reserved for sale in London and the large Provincial Towns. The next impression of five thousand will be stamped, so as to pass post-free, and will be circulated gratuitously on the 7th of January, 1843, amongst that number of the nobility, gentry, clergy, professional men, and principal tradesmen, all over the United Kingdom, according to a list which has most generously been placed at our disposal for that purpose by a friend. It is important, therefore, to advertisers that they should seize the opportunity thus afforded them of a special and select notification of their business among a class of such importance. It may be affirmed, indeed, that a circulation of this character and amount is superior to one of four times the number of copies dispersed at random, in the ordinary way of sale. Additional advertisements, therefore (if sufficient in number) will be inserted in a Supplement to accompany this gratuitous circulation, as well as the future sale, and should be sent to the Office at latest, on Thursday, the 5th of January. The charge for advertisements in the Supplement will be 15s. per quarter column, 1l. 10s. per half column, and so on; smaller advertisements according to agreement. To insure more attention to the Supplement, as well as to secure an additional circulation for it, it will contain matter of interest as to the progress of the first impression, correspondence, and the like. Our prospects hitherto have been so far gratifying as to give us confidence that the whole number of 20,000 copies of the Precursor will be disposed of!_

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TO OUR READERS.—_As we do not choose to trust our own judgment on a subject in which so many are interested besides ourselves, and as it is so easy to obtain an opinion by which we may be guided, we think it right in this place to invite attention to our views on the subject of the future character of “THE BUILDER.” Before a month shall have elapsed, at least 20,000 numbers of this paper will, in all probability, have been circulated, and will have passed under the review of twenty times that number of readers. They, and in particular our Building friends, will have made up their minds as to whether “THE BUILDER” is a work to be encouraged—it certainly is not our desire to attempt to force the point, although we would use a little “gentle violence” to develope the evidence—and this we may be supposed to be doing now. We have said that there are two parties to this, as to every other question—the public and ourselves. It is not for us to tell the public that they know nothing of their own wants, and to attempt to force them into the belief that such a paper as “THE BUILDER” is absolutely necessary, but unless we had taken this step on our own responsibility, the question would have remained undetermined. What we would ask of the Building public then is—Do you wish to have a periodical devoted to your interests, as we propose? and whether would you have it a Magazine and Advertiser simply, or as a Newspaper conjoined? In the former case it might be weekly or monthly, in the latter it must necessarily be weekly. As to the price and size: If a Magazine and Advertiser of twelve pages of the size of our present number, we should say 3d. the number, stamped 4d.; if a Newspaper of sixteen pages, we do not think it could be less than 6d. Every body has seen the_ Illustrated London News, _and allowing for difference in the character of the illustrations (those in “THE BUILDER” being devoted entirely to art and science), you will be able to judge of the appearance which the latter will present. We are only anxious to undertake no more, or, no less, than can reasonably be expected to be carried out. If it should appear from experience of the working that more can be accomplished, we shall most gladly acknowledge and act upon it, by either enlarging the paper, or reducing the price. But we still think that to conjoin the character of a Magazine and Newspaper, and at the cost of one to give the advantages of both, will be to study the true economy of our cause._

_The readers, therefore, have much of the settlement of the question in their own hands—even to the influencing of the advertisers. All advertisers look for papers of large circulation, and as advertisements are a great means of support to a newspaper, it is evident that the more “THE BUILDER” is supported by the mere reader, by so much the more does it stand a chance of support from advertisers. We venture, therefore, to speak in this business as though we were ourselves less concerned in its issue than we really feel to be—and we urge upon our honoured fellow-craftsmen to make this paper their own. Let it be a sign or standard of union._

_We do not ask to have subscriptions forwarded, but we would respectfully request to be favoured by an immediate intimation front all parties as to their willingness to subscribe, and which they would prefer, a Magazine alone, or Magazine and Newspaper._

_We trust it will be considered that we are pursuing a straightforward and ingenuous course, willing to be guided by circumstances, rather than to seek to force or control them, or to stake upon our own presumptuous judgment that which a prudent and discreet man would say should be left to the decision of the common voice and experience._

_Pardon us if we once more urge you to rally round “THE BUILDER.”_

ADVERTISEMENTS.

BAZAAR PANCLIBANON, 58, BAKER-STREET, PORTMAN-SQUARE.—KITCHEN RANGES, STOVE GRATES, FURNISHING IRONMONGERY.—The stock of this vast establishment has been renewed, with an extensive selection of every description of domestic furniture, usually found in the ironmongery department. Every requisite for the Kitchen, in Copper, Iron, or Tin, of first-rate qualities, the prices being marked in plain figures, for READY MONEY. Kitchen ranges and cooking apparatus upon approved principles, including useful and modern improvements. The higher class of goods comprises an enlarged assortment of register and stove grates, in steel and black metal, with fenders and fire-irons to correspond, suitable to drawing and dining rooms, libraries, halls, and chambers, in various styles of ornamental embellishment now in vogue, and of improved modes of construction, calculated to insure safety with economy.

A very large assemblage of baths, of sound make, and adapted to all purposes of health and comfort; comprehending shower, plunge, and vapour baths; those proper to the nursery, with hip, foot, and knee baths, and peculiar shapes convenient for embrocation; among these enumerated, are varieties fitted with practical improvements for the ready application of this valuable resource to the invalid, or in cases of sudden indisposition.

A commodious saloon has been added to receive a new stock containing Appendages to the tea table, including papier maché and iron tea trays of great beauty of design, and tasteful display of ornament. Tea and coffee urns and coffee machines of the best quality, of London make, comprising every useful improvement in those articles.

Tea services in Britannia metal, of superior quality, and in considerable variety of shape and pattern. A costly display of plain and enriched British plate of peculiar elegance of design and execution, chiefly work from silver models, together with suites of spoons, tongs, and caddies, knives and forks en suite, to which may be added table and gravy spoons, soup ladles, fish knives, slices, with the more consequential objects proper to the dining table. Turbot and venison dishes and covers; square, round, and oval-corner dishes; epergnes, cruet stands, &c. &c.

The stock of wire-work is the largest in the kingdom, and comprises every variety requisite for the hall or veranda, conservatory, terrace, or room window. Trellis work, trainers, baskets, arches, temples, and alcoves, of new and beautiful designs, and of first class workmanship.

Every article is plainly exhibited, with the ready money price affixed, and warranted of the best make.

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BAZAAR.—SINGULARLY BEAUTIFUL HISTORICAL GROUP IN MAGNIFICENT ARMOUR.—The splendid Royal Cot in which is the Prince of Wales with the Princess Royal of England. The King of Prussia. Commissioner Lin and his Consort, modelled by Lamqua, of Canton, expressly for this exhibition; the gorgeous robes in which they are represented were actually worn by them at the period of their sad catastrophe. George the Fourth in his resplendent Coronation Robes, designed by himself, and executed in crimson and blue imperial velvet, richly embroidered in gold, by eminent artists, at an expense of 18,000_l._ This dazzling spectacle is seen in a spacious boudoir of costly architecture, elaborately wrought in carvings and gold, from one lately existing in the Palace of Carlton House, and is acknowledged to be the most splendid sight ever offered to the British public. Admittance One Shilling. Open from Eleven in the morning until dusk, and from Seven until Ten.

Madame Tussaud and Sons’ Bazaar, Baker-street, Portman-square.

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BAZAAR CARRIAGE DEPARTMENT, BAKER-STREET, PORTMAN-SQUARE.—An immense variety of every description of new and second-hand Carriages are constantly on sale, in the spacious galleries of the Establishment, at very reduced prices; most of the new Carriages being warranted for twelve months. Purchasers may place the greatest reliance upon their being of the best materials and workmanship, by highly respectable builders. Carriages are sold by auction on the first Friday in the month, during the season.

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BAZAAR SADDLERY DEPARTMENT, 58, BAKER-STREET, PORTMAN-SQUARE.—HARNESS, SADDLERY, AND HORSE CLOTHING.—Every article manufactured in this establishment, being sold at the lowest price, consistent with the best quality of materials and workmanship, will be found to be 25 per cent. under the usual trade charges.

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PRESERVATION FROM COLD AND WET.

HALL & CO. invite attention to their invaluable INDIA-RUBBER GOLOSHES, which most effectually preserve the Feet from Cold and Damp, and are neater, more durable, and cheaper than the most superior Golosh or Clog ever before offered.

COMFORT AND EASE FOR THE FEET

Are secured by their Patent Pannus-Corrium or Leather Cloth Boots and Shoes, as being the softest, easiest, lightest, most elastic, and comfortable for Tender Feet, arising from whatever cause. These qualities they retain to the last. They are also adapted to all climates, and are as durable and cheap as those made of any other material.

Also their elastic India-rubber Spring Boots entirely supersede the use of buttons, straps, ties, laces, or other fastenings, and afford the most complete security and support to the ankle.

PROTECTION FROM THE STORM

Is afforded by their Portable Waterproof Dresses. The Gentleman’s Dress, comprising Cape, Leggings, and Hood, may be conveniently deposited in the coat-pocket. The Ladies’ Manteau Cardinal effectually shelters the person and dress from injury, and may be folded and deposited in the reticule. These dresses never retain moisture, and are impervious to rain, snow, or hail.

Gentlemen’s complete Suit, One Guinea. Manteau Cardinal for Ladies, 18s.

HALL & CO., Sole Patentees, Wellington-street, Strand, London.

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PATENT GAS and LAMP CHIMNEY.—COGAN’S ECONOMIC ELONGATOR, secured by her Majesty’s Letters Patent, is superior to any hitherto introduced to the public, produces a more brilliant light, and so effectually prevents smoke, that Gas may now be introduced into the best-furnished apartments, without fear or injury to its adornments. Lace-merchants, shawl-warehousemen, and others, will find it worthy their adoption. Common Lamps, with this simple chimney, though burning inferior oil, will give light equal to the Solar, and without smell.

Proprietors of gas-works, gas-fitters, gas-dealers, and others, desirous of becoming agents for the same, will please to make early application to R. COGAN, 48, Leicester-square, where the trade may be supplied with lamp and gas glasses, together with clock and figure shades of every description, cheaper than at any house in London. Priced lists of nearly 100 engraved patterns of gas glasses will be sent to any part of the kingdom by forwarding the address.

French and English fancy glass, alabaster ornaments, China shades, &c.

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BUILDERS’ COLLEGE, LONDON.—To PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.—Mr. HANSOM, Architect of the Birmingham Town Hall, &c. &c., has associated with his practice an Institution to give enlarged facilities to students in Architecture and Architectural Engineering; and to form a superior class of Architectural Sculptors, Carvers, Modellers, &c., to be engaged in his own office and works until competent to practise a liberal and lucrative profession.

It has been Mr. Hansom’s study to lay down a plan for the instruction of architectural decorators and furnishers, which shall combine the advantages of the school, the office, and the workshop; so that general education, professional training, and handicraft skill may be acquired and perfected together—that the benefits of college discipline, and residence of systematic tuition under proficient masters, of lectures and examinations, and of constant familiarity with books, models, and works may be united in one establishment.

Pupils are eligible at the age of fourteen and upwards, and are articled in the usual manner as apprentices. The terms are moderate, and with other particulars, may be known on application at the office, 27, Foley-place, London.

The importance of a system of education as above proposed,
it is scarcely necessary to point out. While other callings
and professions are crowded, those to which this Institution
principally refers are but rarely, and in many instances,
imperfectly practised, and the demand for proficients is every
day wonderfully on the increase. In proof of this, we need
only to advert to the evidences of the growing public taste,
and to note the tone and temper of the professors and patrons
of architecture. Witness also the ornamented character of our
public and private edifices, the restoration of ecclesiastical
structures, and the building of new ones, on a munificent
scale; the late fearful ravages of fire, causing the necessity
of a large amount of rebuilding, and leading, most probably,
to the remodelling of most of the large cities of Europe. All
these circumstances tell how important it is that a school
should be founded, and a body of professors formed to fill up
the vacuity in that section of art which lies between the mere
constructor of buildings, and the architect and engineer who
gives the plan of the structure.

In fact, it is only in obedience to that law of general
movement which characterizes these times, that the institution
in question has had its birth—the universal voice calls
for advance—the arts of design are to be revived, and the
debasement of centuries cast off. Schools are being established
under government patronage, and mechanics’ institutes were
but a phase of progress—the thirst for knowledge has been
stimulated, but not gratified. There remains, then, to be
formed an institution wherein the theory and practice of art
may accompany each other; and this is proposed by the Builders’
College.

Thus, while the pupil will be made familiar with the best
examples of ancient and modern decoration by means of books,
drawings, models, and the inspection of buildings; while he
will be instructed in the principles of design, and in the
science of construction upon which they depend; while he will
be made a skilful draughtsman and colourist, he will be trained
in the handicraft arts, so as to be able to produce the works
themselves, the objects of his study and investigation.

But in addition to all this, it is necessary that he learn so
much of practical mechanics, mathematics, and of experimental
and natural philosophy, as to be guided in his art by the
_rationale_ which these supply. Mechanical laws and mechanical
powers have a wide range of influence in the arts of design;
for how shall a man embellish his work appropriately who knows
not the former, or how economize in the use and application
of machinery, without being conversant with the latter?
Mathematical science, in particular as to the properties of
figures and of numbers, is essential to him—and as to sound,
light, and heat—as to the ventilation of buildings, supply of
water, and drainage—as to chemical constituents and processes
affecting the preparation, combination, and preservation of his
materials—as to the natural fitness of metals and minerals, of
vegetable and even animal products to be used in building—as
to the vast suggestive sources of construction and of ornament
that exist in the whole arcanum of nature—how, in all these
respects, shall the pupil make efficient or rational progress;
or how acquire a mastery of his art, unless he study and be
made acquainted with the sciences and laws that bear upon and
illustrate its several elements?

History, and, indeed, general literature, as bearing upon the
subject of his inquiries, will demand a share of his attention.
It is not, however, to be supposed that the pupil can be
critically or curiously learned in all these, nor, on the
other hand, that a superficial knowledge will avail; but it is
considered that by confining attention to the matter of each
that strictly pertains to architecture, and by combining as
far as possible, in one establishment, the means of pursuing an
unbroken scheme of instruction, that the evils of a too general
and desultory system of study, and of widely-scattered sources
of information, will be largely remedied.

The bringing together of a number of youths and their associate
teachers, probably from all quarters of the world (as already
promises to be the case); the contact of various minds,
influenced by various national peculiarities, but all bent
upon one comprehensive enterprise of attainment; the working
together in the various practical development of progress,
under practical instructors, and for practical and intelligible
ends—these, and a number of other circumstances of a favouring
character, must conduce to a rapid progress and an extensive
and sound proficiency.

And not least in the assumed merits of this Institution are the
features pertaining to ordinary or general school education;
the neglect of early youth may be repaired here, or the
acquirements of that period secured, and directed to practical
purposes; arithmetic, mensuration, book-keeping, classic
literature, and the French, German, and Italian languages,
which are almost essential to the education of an artist, will
be taught in their due routine, and the facility for acquiring
them considerably enlarged by association with students and
tutors speaking the respective languages of their own countries.

By uniting, therefore, the pursuit of knowledge to a strict
system of supervision and instruction—of regular and
fixed hours of employment and recreation, and of constant
practical tendencies, engaging the students in the designing,
fabricating, and applying objects of art, confiding to them at
proper opportunities and periods the superintendence of works
and workmen, and giving them at the same time the benefits
of social converse with their fellows and tutors, whether
in study, work, recreation, or refection; paying a strict
attention to their morals, habits, and health; in fine, by
aiming at the best practical union of the home, the school, the
workshop, and the studio, it is hoped that a fine class of men
may be produced, fitted to the exigencies of the times, and
calculated to advance the arts, and do honour to their country.
Neither is this attempt so novel or so extraordinary as it may
seem; the history of art in former times, and the practice of
contemporary professors abroad, give sanction to the scheme.
It is not with every man a gift or a passion to apply himself
to teaching in conjunction with the practice of his art, but
some of the greatest names of antiquity and of this present
age are associated with schools and styles, and indeed it is
an important question to be put, as to whether the business of
education, paramount as it is above all other business, should
not be conducted by and confided to practical men.

Let the groundwork be well laid in the minds of the ardent and
generous of our young countrymen. Let their ambition to excel
be honestly encouraged and directed. Open to them the pages of
past history, as to the glorious and sublime achievements of
the architects and associate artists of old, and point out to
them the path of equal, or it may be greater distinction (for
who shall say what mechanical and chemical science, allied
to the inspiration of genius, may produce); and we shall no
more hear of the complaints of inferiority, or of the want of
original talent in the Fine Arts among our countrymen.

It may be urged by many that this is a gigantic work, and
should be left to the government, or a company. A moment’s
reflection, however, will check the thought of the former in an
English breast, and the interference of companies with objects
of private enterprize, is, perhaps, as much to be deprecated.
That this is a legitimate object of private enterprize, may
be inferred from what has been already said as to ancient
and contemporary practice. And in a matter where so much
depends upon the bias of the heart—where fatherly care, as
much as artistic sentiment is needed, to guide and form the
student—where every interest of the superior is bound up with
that of the pupil, associating the success of the former in his
practice, with the probity and proficiency of the latter—where
an intelligent conception of interest and duty reigns in
the mind of the principal—these, it is presumed, offer the
strongest guarantees of success, when other arrangements,
through companies or co-partnerships, under boards of directors
and managers, would be likely to fail.

All that can be done in this respect has probably been done
in the London University and King’s College, by appointing
professors, instituting classes, and giving a course of
lectures in Architecture and Engineering; or by taking the
matter a step further as is being tried at the College of Civil
Engineers, Putney. The rest must be accomplished in the office
or the atelier of the professor, and in works and buildings
conducted by him. The pupil in this case takes part in
practical operations with an intelligible aim, and a tangible
end. He is identified with, or interested in, their progress,
and imbibes knowledge of a most profitable kind through
grateful and agreeable channels.

PUBLICATIONS.

Just published, price 2s. 6d.

ENGLISH PATENTS; being a Register of all those granted for Inventions in the Arts, Manufactures, Chemistry, Agriculture, &c. With copious Index.

By ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.

This Annual contains a register of all the patents granted in each year; the title, date, and name of inventor; distinguishing those produced in foreign countries from those native. Alphabetical lists both of names and subjects being given, an easy reference is obtained.

To the manufacturer the importance of this work must be at once apparent, as it embraces improvements in nearly every branch of art and science, and enables him to ascertain what processes and articles he is restricted from using or making, and the period when they become public property. To inventors, many are the uses for which a list of this kind is available: besides offering them a ready means of ascertaining whether others have directed their attention to the same subjects, it enables them, if such be the case, to determine whether the inventions are similar, or what parts are claimed by former patentees, and whether they can secure their invention to themselves without infringement of an existing patent.

To each annual list is appended some valuable information relating to subjects connected with inventions. The “English Patents,” 1841, has appended a copy of letters patent as now granted in England, by which inventors are enabled to form some idea of the rights and privileges they acquire by a patent. Also an abstract of the consolidated act, which commenced its operation in September, 1842, whereby inventors or manufacturers may secure to themselves the sole right of making and selling, for terms not exceeding three years, any new design on articles of manufacture, or for any novelty in the pattern, shape, configuration, or ornament thereof. The orders of the Lords of the Treasury respecting the charges to be made for such registrations, the names of articles registered, &c. are given.

The “English Patents” granted in 1842 will contain, in addition to the List and Index, some observations on foreign patents, which, it is conceived, will be useful to inventors generally, but more especially to those who have obtained English patents.

This Annual will be published as soon after the close of each year as the collecting, arranging, and printing the work will permit.

London: Whittaker & Co. Ave-Maria-lane.

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