THE MIRROR
OF
LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
| Vol. XIX. No. 539.] | SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1832. | [PRICE 2d. |
WINDSOR CASTLE, (N.E.)
Our sketchy tour of Windsor Castle has hitherto been told in visits farbetween, perhaps, if not few, for the interesting character of the wholefabric.1
The present Cut includes the North-east view, a picturesque if notimportant point. The reader will remember, if he has not enjoyed, thesplendid terrace on the north; this is now continued on the eastern side.The fine tower at the eastern end of the north terrace, (at the angle,) isBrunswick Tower, with a projecting bastion in its front containing theapparatus for heating the orangery, with rooms for the attendants; it isoctagon shaped, and has a most commanding appearance, the height being 120feet above the level of the terrace.
A staircase turret communicates with the apartments, the principal onebeing appropriated as a private dining-room by the late King, while thelarger apartments on the east front were reserved for splendidentertainments. In a central position between the state dining-room andSt. George's Hall is a music saloon, in which is placed a fine-toned organ.A communication has been effected between Brunswick Tower and the stateapartments by a corridor terminating at the King's Guard Chamber, where anew tower, named after George the Third, has been erected: the principalwindow is extremely large, and divided by Gothic tracery into severalcompartments, producing a noble and cathedral-like appearance.
Beneath the Castle, in the Engraving, are seen the wooded slopes of theLittle Park, the "green retreats" of Pope, where
——Waving groves a checker'd scene display
And part admit, and part exclude the day.
*** The friendly suggestion of our Correspondent, G.C. (Windsor Castle)shall be considered.
THE MARCH OF MIND.
(To the Editor.)
It is generally supposed that the extensive search after, and diffusion of,knowledge, is in a great measure peculiar to these present times. It seemstherefore to me a very curious thing to find a learned man and anaccomplished courtier protesting against book-learning as an evil, so farback as the year 1646, and a curious thing he himself appears to havethought it, introducing his opinion as a "paradox" until he explains. Inthis explanation we find the same opinion that is now strenuously insistedon by Mr. Cobbett, namely, that a man who properly understands his ownbusiness or employment, though he have nothing of literature, is by nomeans to be accounted ignorant.
The letters of James Howell, Esq. are well known as fluent examples of thebest style of writing of his day, and as repositories of many curiousfacts and intelligent remarks. The following letter appears to beaddressed to