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four patients each. The basement contains the kitchens and usual domestic offices.

These details will serve to show the care now given to the sanitary arrangements for our public hospitals, as well as the magnitude and completeness of the institutions. In these buildings, above all others, it is essential that everything else should be subsidiary to the carrying out the purpose for which they are erected; and we must be the more grateful, therefore, when, as in Addenbrooke's Hospital, we are presented with a noble architectural design, as well as an arrangement of the edifice itself so well planned as this appears to be. Besides these great public hospitals, several on a smaller scale, or confined to a special class of patients, have been completed or are in progress. The Royal Albert Infirmary, Bishop's Waltham, providing twenty beds, has been erected from the designs of Mr. R. Critchlow; and an infirmary has been begun at Doncaster. At Bradford an Eye and Ear Hospital is erecting, from the designs of Messrs. Lockwood and Mawson. The mansion purchased at West-hill, Putney, for the Royal Hospital for Incurables, has been adapted to its purpose and enlarged by the addition of a new wing, under the direction of Mr. W. P. Griffith. It stands in the midst of twenty-four acres of park land, and will accommodate 200 patients. The magnificent military hospital, the Herbert Hospital, Kidbrook-common, Woolwich, is at length virtually completed, considerable delay having been caused by the partial failure of the foundations. It is constructed on the pavilion principle, of separate buildings of moderate size connected by corridors, and will have 650 beds. The great Military Hospital for Invalids, at Netley, is constructed on the opposite principle of lodging the largest possible number under one roof. As recording the progress making in this matter, we may mention that Union Hospitals, embodying the latest results of sanitary science, have been erected, or are building, at Chorlton, near Manchester; at Liverpool (for fever patients), and elewhere. At Leeds a convenient building, Italian Gothic in style, has been completed, from the designs of Mr. G. Corson, for the Leeds School of Medicine; and one has been commenced, from the designs of Mr. Hill, for the New Dispensary.

St. Andrew's Hospital for Convalescents, in connection with the House of Mercy, at Clewer, by Windsor, is being erected, from the designs of Mr. H. Woodyer. It is to accommodate 24 men, 18 women, and 15 children, and will cost about 12,000l. Mr. Woodyer has just completed a House of Mercy at Ditchlingham, in Suffolk, and is erecting a large one at Haley Hill, in Yorkshire, and another at Bovey Tracey for the county of Devon.

5. BUILDINGS CONNECTED WITH EDUCATION, ART, &c.

Malvern Proprietary College, opened last June, is situated in a beautiful and picturesque spot on the lower slope of the Malvern Hills, commanding an extensive view of the valley of the Severn. The college buildings are intended to accommodate 600 boys: the system of instruction is that of the great public schools. The style and character of the buildings will be seen from the engraving

(Cut No. 3), made from a drawing for which we are indebted to the courtesy of the architect, Mr. C. F. Hansom. In plan the buildings are in the form of an E. The west frout, that shown in the engraving, contains the entrance tower and principal rooms; at the back is an open quadrangle, of which the Classic School (the nearest building in the cut) forms the north, and the corresponding building, the Modern School, the south side; the farthest building is the chapel, not yet completed. The west front is 210 ft. long, the central tower 100 ft. high. The principal school-rooms are each 97 ft. by 35 ft., and 57 ft. high; but the classical room can be increased to 135 ft. in length by means of sliding-doors, which separate it from the drawing-room. Two masters' houses for the reception of pupils have been erected close to the college.

The Surrey County Schools, at Cranley, for boys of the middle class, was opened in September. The buildings, designed by Mr. H. Woodyer, form rather a striking group, and are a good example of collegiate Gothic; but the central kitchen, a noticeable feature in the design, and portions of the north and west sides of the quadrangle, are left incomplete. The present building will hold 160 boys, but when the whole scheme is completed there will be accommodation for 300. King Edward's Grammar School, Witley, Surrey, in connection with the Bridewell Hospital, London, has been commenced close to the railway station, from the designs of Mr. Sidney Smirke. It is a redbrick Elizabethan building, with a frontage of 209 ft., having a central tower of 73 ft. high. The play-ground covers an area of three acres. At Peterborough a training college has been opened, near the cathedral, for the dioceses of Peterborough and Lincoln. It is a redbrick Gothic building, containing residences for the masters, dormitories for forty students, class-rooms, chapel, dining-hall, &c. The architect was Mr. Scott, but insufficient funds have caused his original design to be considerably modified. At Bala a Theological College for Calvinistic Methodists has been commenced, First Pointed in style, from the designs of Mr. W. H. Spaull, of Oswestry. The Manchester Memorial Hall, erected by the Unitarian body in commemoration of the clergy ejected in 1662, has been completed. The ground-floor and basement are appropriated to offices and warehouses; the upper floors contain spacious lecture rooms, apartments for professors, students, &c. The architect was Mr. T. Worthington. A neat Gothic building has been erected at a cost of 3,500l., in Wheelerstreet, Spitalfields, from the designs of Mr. T. Beck, as a Working Men's Club and Institute.

A very large and showy edifice has been completed at Skircoat Moor, Halifax, founded by the well-known Halifax firm of John Crossley and Sons, and called the Crossley Orphanage. It comprises a home and schools for 200 boys, 200 girls, and 50 infants, and has cost about 50,000l. The designs were made by Mr. J. Hogg, of Halifax, but the building has been completed under the superintendence of Messrs. Paull and Ayliffe, of Manchester. Two Orphanages have been commenced at Pennybridge and Bletchingley, Surrey, one for 100 boys, the other for the same number of girls. They are to be Gothic buildings, and, with the endowments, will cost the munifi

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cent foundress, the Duchess of Leeds, above 70,0007. Mr. E. W. Pugin is the architect. The Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, Wood Green, Tottenham, designed by Mr. E. Pearce, was opened in July last. It is a spacious and showy but not altogether satisfactory semi-Gothic structure, of white brick, with Bolsover stone dressings, and affords accommodation for 150 boys, the sons of indigent Freemasons. The cost has been about 24,000l. The Warehousemen and Clerks' Orphan Asylum at Caterham, Surrey, has also been completed. It is constructed of red brick, relieved with alternate bands and dressings of white stone; is Venetian Gothic in style, and, from its elevated site, forms a conspicuous but somewhat incongruous object for a considerable distance. It affords accommodation for 150 boys and girls, and cost about 20,000l. The architect was Mr. Bland.

For the Guild of Literature and Art three houses have been completed, on a site near Stevenage presented by Sir E. B. Lytton. They are of red brick, with stone dressings, designed by Mr. H. A. Darbishire in his usual quiet and effective style; are very convenient in their arrangements, have spacious gardens, and occupy a pleasant and commanding site.

During the past year the Surrey Theatre and Saville House, London, the Sheffield Theatre and a Theatre in Edinburgh, have been destroyed by fire. Happily no loss of life occurred, but in either case the difference of an hour or two in the outbreak of the fire might have led to a serious catastrophe. The frequent occurrence of these disasters ought to induce a more stringent and authoritative supervision of the means of egress provided in theatres and places of public resort. Several of our most frequented theatres, and those in which, from the character of the pieces represented, fire is to be particularly dreaded, have not only very inadequate means of egress, but those most inefficiently arranged. And our largest concert-rooms-such as Exeter Hall, where the seats for the audience and chorus are constructed as though to carry flames in the swiftest possible way round the building; and St. Martin's Hall, where the staircases from the opposite sides of the room (the only means of egress) converge to a point-would, if a panic occurred on a crowded night, be even more dangerous places than the theatres. Surely it would be no undue interference with property or liberty if, where the public safety is so seriously involved, the system of access and egress, or at any rate of egress, were regulated by law and subjected to competent supervision. The Surrey Theatre is being rebuilt, under the direction of Mr. J. Ellis, and it is said the architect will pay especial regard to this matter: but the same has been said of many other such places, and after all no great improvement has been visible. What is promised may be accomplished, but it ought not to be left to mere private goodwill and judgment. Saville House is to be rebuilt, from the designs of Messrs. Nelson and Innes; and a new theatre, to be called the "Holborn Theatre Royal," is proposed to be built, by a limited liability company, on the site of Brownlow Mews, Holborn, from the designs of Messrs. Finch, Hill, and Paraire.

The New Theatre Royal, Nottingham, erected from the designs of Mr. J. C. Phipps, was opened in September last. The principal front

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