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Civil Engineer and Architect’s Journal.] [January 1, 1868. CONTENTS OF N°- 406.—JANUARY, 1868. Illustration.—The Parish Church, Bridekirk ; Perspective View from the South-west. Messrs. Cory and Ferguson, Architects. Page Systematic Proportion in Architecture ... 1 Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture, Class 65, in the Paris Exhibition .. ... 7 The Working of Steep Gradients and Sharp Curves on Kailways ... ... ... ... 13 Thompson’s Patent Road Steamer ... ... 17 Plumber’s Work... ... ... ... ... 19 The Institution of Civil Engineers ... ... ... ... 21 Page Proposed School of Art at Bombay ... ... 27 Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society 28 Tie old Roof over the Nave of West Church, Stirling ... 31 Art at Athens ... 31 Causes of Shoals and Pools in Rivers ... 32 The Architectural Association ... ... ... 32 Eruption of Vesuvius ... ... 32 Prizes offered by the Societe d’Encouragcmcnt of Paris ... 32 New Edition (49ft), price 4s., LAXTON’S BUILDER’S PRICE BOOK; for 1868 FOR ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, SURVEYORS, AND ALL THE BUILDING TRADES, (ESTABLISHED 1816) Containing more than 60.000 Prices, embracing all the various Tracies connected with the operations of the Architect, Engineer, Builder, Contractor, and Surveyor; together with 10,000 useful and important Memoranda relating to the same. Also, Descriptions of various Stones for Building from the Quarries of England, Scotland, and Wales, giving the name of each quarry, the mineral designation and colour of the stone; its weight per cubic foot; where known to have been employed ; and general remarks, showing what kind of work the stone is best adapted for; prices at the quarry, and delivered in London; and cost of plain rubbed work as compared with that upon Portland Stone. Instructions for Estimating and Contracting, with a copy of Bill of Quantities adapted to General Building Work, having each trade detailed, Calculations and Sketches of Cast and Wrought Iron Girdeiis, Columns, Ac., with Memoranda of Deflection, Breaking Weight Tables for Purchasing Leases, Estates, and Annuities. Areas and Circumference of Circles; Scan lings of Timber; Weights and Strength of Iron. Timber, Brickwork, and oilier Materials. Cylinders, Roofs, British and Foreign Weight, and Measures, Ac., Ac. Prices and Description of Materials and Inventions recently introduced, suitable to the Builder. Contractor, and Engineer. The METR OPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT, 1855, with notes of eases explanatory of its law and practice; the unrepealed sections of the 8 Viet. c. 8-1; list of District Surveyors, their addresses ; index. The reputation which this Work has gained as a book of reference ingeneral use by the Profession and Trades connected with Building, Engineering, and Contracting, and the great increasein its circulation, are proofs that the efforts made to render it as useful as possible have been recognised. LAXTON’S PRICE BOOK IS NOT PRINTED FROM STEREOTYPE PLATES; therefore in each succeeding Edition, a thorough revision of the prices is carried out and such alterations and additions are made as are found practically useful to the Architect, the Engineer, and the Operative. This Book is used in the Courts of Law in Cases of Reference and Arbitration. London : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co. Sold by all Booksellers in Toron and Country. OFFICE—13, WARWICK COURT, GRAY’S INN, H0LB0RN, LONDON W.C. IMPROVED GAS APPARATUS, FOR TOWNS, VILLAGES, MANSIONS, MANUFACTORIES, COLLIERIES, Ac., INVENTED AND MANUFACTURED BY W. a HOLMES & CO., WHITESTONE IRONWORKS, HUDDERSFIELD. Prices and Prospectus on Application. LONDON OFFICES—56, GRACECHURCH STREET, CITY. Please adaress letters to the Works at Huddersfield. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LOUDON. ARCHITECTURE. The Second Course of Lectures on Archi tecture and Construction by Prof. T. Hayter Lewis, F.S.A., will commence on Tuesday, the 11th of February, at 6.25 p.m., and be continued at the same hour on succeeding Tuesdays, until the end of the session. For particulars apply at the office of the CoUege, Gower Street, or at 9, John Street, Adelphi. JOHN ROBSON, B.A., Secretary to the Council. In two parts, ISmo, cloth limp, Is. each ; or the two parts in one, strongly bound, 2s. 17 U CL ID’S ELEMENTS OF GEO- JlJ ME TRY, from the Text of Dr. Simson. With a Com mentary and an Introduction to Algebraic Geometry, by William Rossiter, F.R.G.S., Author of “ The First Book of Algebra, Trigonometry, &c., <fcc.” London : WILLIAM TEGG, Pancras Lane, Cheapside.
