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152   Institutions : Decoratire   lanzfactures in the Pane ENposition. 
will become the standard authority on the subject. From the numbers which
have been 
published, we are able to transfer to our pages the following sculptured
panels. They 
are part of the second band running through the oriel windows,which front
the riverThames. 
They may be useful, perhaps, to the deco- 
rator, as suggestive of sculpturesque treat- 
ment of the national flowers with labels in 
panels. Throughout the building may be 
Sremarked the skill with which the sculp- 
tures preserve a strictly architectonic cha- 
racter and certain amount of Gothic con- 
ventionality. The old masons did not 
make their figures disproportioned and 
grotesque from design, but from want of 
power. For us moderns to imitate, as is 
sometimes done, the imperfections of our 
forefathers with our eyes open is simply 
ridiculous. The decorations of this build- 
ing in its progress will be a constant 
subject for THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN. 
We could wish that access to study them 
were easier and less formal than it is, 
especially for the classes who would be 
likely to derive profit in the study. The 
present arrangements of applying     on 
Wednesdays, in the "Season" only, at 
the Lord Chamberlain's office in Abing- 
don  Street, during limited hours, for 
tickets to be admitted on Saturdays, may 
suit the mere sight-seers, but they oc- 
it    casion so much loss of time as to be a 
practical obstacle in the way of decora- 
1      tive artisans, whose time is their means of 
livelihood. 
Instftutions. 
DECORATIVE MANUFACTURES IN THE PARIS EXPOSITION. 
Our readers will find elsewhere our     allow in the present, returning to
the 
general remarks on the Paris Exposition,  subject next month. At the time
we are 
and its historical bearing (p. 145). Inre-  obliged to go to press the exhibition
was 
viewing the multitude of objects exhibited, most complete in metal works,
to which, 
we propose to group them in classes, which  therefore, we give the pas. The
stalls 
we shall exhaust as far as our space will  for ribbons, silks, lace, Mulhausen,
and 
Plan of the Building for the Paris Exposition. 
Paper-hangings. 
Chemical 
Productions.           Furniture. 
Horticulture. 
Woven Fabrics