of science in elementary schools. The selection made could be such as to be important to all the pupils, whatever might be their future occupations. COURSE OF STUDY RECOMMENDED FOR STUDENTS OF ARCHITECTURE. I. GENERAL STUDIES, referring to the materials of which the globe is composed, their power and capabilities, and their relations to the human frame. 1. Chemistry-History of the elements of which the globe is composed, and of their combinations. 2. Mechanical Philosophy, including the mutual relations of solids, liquids, and gases. 3. Heat, Light, Electricity, and Magnetism. 4. Mineralogy and Geology. 5. Meteorology. 6. The General Structure and Physiology of the Frame of Man; Principles of Hygiene. II. SPECIAL STUDIES. 1. The Materials used in Building, natural and artificial—their strength and capabilities. 2. The Principles and Practice of Design and Construction-the different orders and styles of architecture. 8. Outline of the History of Architecture as a Fine and as a Useful Artthe monuments of antiquity-the peculiar works of modern times. 4. Public Buildings, including Schools, Churches, Law-Courts, Prisons, Hospitals, Theatres, and Gymnasia for exercise and recreation. 5. Habitations for the People-extreme importance of the tenement question, and of the right construction of the habitations of the poorer classes in all large cities; its relation to the wants, habits, and morals of the inhabitants. 6. Special Buildings for Trades-Workshops and Manufactories. 7. The construction requisite for Acoustics, Warming, Cooling, Lighting, Ventilating, Fire-proofing, Draining, and Sewerage, the collection and removal of refuse, and the importance of due provision being adjusted for all these purposes before the execution of any building is commenced. 8. The Selection of Sites for Buildings, Superficial Drainage, the peculiarities required in different classes of foundations. 9. The special architecture required in destroying noxious fumes and exhalations from drains, manufactories, and other houses, and for facilitating the cleansing of large cities and villages, and the general preservation of the public health; the objects and conduct of quarantine on shore. 10. The Principles and Practice of Decorations-the influence of colors. 11. Plans, Drawings, and Specifications; architectural books required in conducting business accounts. 12. Preparing Estimates and measuring executed Work. III. It is presumed that the student will carry on a systematic series of exercises in drawing, perspective as well as plan drawing, including isometrical perspective, that he will equally pursue his mathematical studies in relation to every department of the profession which he may have to cultivate, and engage as soon as his time permits, or so adjust his studies as to enable him to become an apprentice to an architect, where he can see daily the realities of his profession. On the whole, however, nothing should be undertaken, if practicable, that will interfere with the right prosecution of his studies. IV. Lastly, a workshop and laboratory should be provided, in which the student shall have the opportunity of becoming practically acquainted with Experimental Chemistry, Carpentry, and mechanics generally, and be enabled to test materials, and make or direct the construction of models that will facilitate all his labors. The union of utility, beauty, and economy are the great desiderata in the study of architecture, and whether we refer to the topics treated in the Hon. H. Barnard's School Architecture, or to Mr. Ruskin's Stones of Venice, or to any other important work on a subject so extensive and inexhaustible as architecture, we shall find ample proof that few practical measures are more intimately associated with the progress of civilization than the right foundation of colleges or schools and museums of architecture. In the above scheme, nothing has been recommended beyond the imperative wants of the public service, and the demands continually made upon the architect. It is for others to judge how far they have been correctly estimated, and whether the results, if the system be adopted, with such modifications as local circumstances may indicate, would not repay a hundred-fold any outlay which the State, the public, or the profession may expend upon it. The foundation of a school of Naval Architecture is no less important than that which has engaged our attention in these pages; but this is a question on which at present we do not enter. NOTE-Dr. Reid, to whom we are indebted for the foregoing article, is the well-known author of "Illustrations of the Theory and Practice of Ventilation," and is now on a visit to this country. We are rejoiced to learn that arrangements have been made with him for a Course of Lectures on the great practical subject of Sanitary Reform as connected with architecture, domestic and public, with drainage, quarantine, &c., before the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, and the Lowell Institution in Boston. Dr. Reid's researches on Respiration and Acoustics were conducted principally at his class-room in Edinburgh, and subsequently at the Houses of Parliament, where, for many years, he directed the ventilation of both Houses of Parliament, in the old as well as in the new building, till differences arose between him and the architect, when a committee of the House of Commons sustained him unanimously, while the committee of the House of Peers supported the architect. Dr. Reid never acted there subsequently, except under protest disapproving of the course then pursued at the Houses, and finally carrying his case at an arbitration, where an investigation took place that occupied thirty days. Dr. Reid's plans have been introduced in numerous public works and other buildings; and at St. George's Hall, Liverpool, the municipal authorities sustained him in applying similar arrangements to those that he had proposed for the new Houses. Dr. Reid was consulted by the government both at Paris and St. Petersburg, and has executed many public works in different parts of Great Britain. One architect alone, Thomas Brown, Esq., of Edinburgh, has applied his plan in forty-eight public and private buildings. Dr. Reid had upwards of three thousand professional pupils at Edinburgh, where he taught chemistry, theoretically and practically, before he entered on the acoustics and ventilation of public buildings. He also was one of the Commissioners of Health appointed by the British government in reference to populous districts in England and Wales, and in the year preceding its institution, the committee of the Privy Council on Education distributed a thousand tickets to teachers who attended a course of lectures he gave on public health-tickets and outlines of the course having been sent from the same source to the members of both Houses of Parliament. He has also paid much attention to the subject of quarantine, and ventilated a num. ber of ships. Dr. R. came to this country with a letter from Mr. Buchanan, when Ameri can Ambassador in London, to the President. EDITOR. IX. THE PUBLIC RECEPTION TO GEORGE PEABODY, AT DANVERS. WE are not very fond of fétes of any kind, or ovations to the living for any degree of merit, but we were gratified beyond any former experience in the Public Reception given to GEORGE PEABODY of London, by the people of Danvers and South Danvers, Mass., in pursuance of a unanimous vote of the two towns, in the grateful acknowledgment of his many acts of liberality, and public spirit, and especially for his establishment and endowment of the Institute for the promotion of knowledge and morality, and for the institution of Prizes for the encouragement of scholarship and good behaviour in the pupils of the Public High Schools. It was a spontaneous and hearty tribute of respect and gratitude by men and women, by old and young, by persons of both sexes, and every employment, to one, who had gone out from among them-with only that culture which an ordinary district school, such as the ordinary district school was fifty years ago, could give to a boy, in attendance only for a few months in each year, and for only three or four years of his life-and with only that capital which is represented by native sagacity, integrity, and a resolute will—and yet by that sagacity, integrity and perseverance achieving a position in the commercial world second to no other individual or house in the great centre of business-and yet everywhere-on either side of the Atlantic, in his days of poverty and of affluence-preserving a republican simplicity of character, dress, manner, a tender filial attachment to the hearth-stone, and friends of his youth, and at all times and everywhere using a portion of his earnings to advance purposes of patriotism, hospitality, humanity and education. If Mr. Peabody had been President of the United States, with lucrative offices in his gift, or a Military Chieftain, fresh from victorious battle-fields, more people could not have turned out to receive him or decorated the streets and houses, public and private with a finer display of arches and flowers, of banners and inscriptions, to greet him on his return, than was done for him, a successful man of business and a gentleman without office and without title. Truly "Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war." The day-the ninth of October, 1856, was a) perfect specimen of a bright, warm, autumnal day and of itself disposed the heart to the utterance of thanksgiving and kindly sentiment. At half past nine A. M., Mr. Peabody arrived in his carriage from Georgetown, where his sister resides, at the confines of Danvers, and was received by a cavalcade of some three hundred ladies and gentlemen, under an evergreen arch hung with flags and streamers-and from that point, escorted to South Danvers, where the procession was formed, which gathering length and strength, and variety, proceeded through the principal streets to the Salem line the stores and shops, the dwellings on either hand, and especially those where his old friends reside, being decorated with tasteful devices and inscriptions, expressive of the sense entertained of the character and services of the guest, too numerous and varied to be remembered or described in detail. Among them we noticed the following: *The old town of Danvers was divided into two portions by act of Legislature in 1854to the Southern portion was given the name of South Danvers. |