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ARCHITECTURE, MENAGERIE, BûTANIC GARDEN. ]45ofthe atmosphere favonrs, too, the impression of theseobjects.Sorneconnect no idea in the way ofbeauty with civic architecture, but whatconsists with identity and uniforrnity :" That cuckoo's note,Ralpho; thou always harpest on't."Repetition lS notharmony. Others, again, can find neither conceptionnor expression for beauty, but in" the term variety. Most people are.struck with the effect of the streetSt.George's HanoverSquare, withoutknowing the reason why: just as ignorant as he who laid it out was ofthe effect it would produce. Not 50 ignorant were,however, the ancient:Egyptians :-·by theÎr structures we see that they were fully apprised ofthe effect ofreduction comhined with distance on the eye, and the beautifulresults that might be extracted therefrom. The Calle de Alcalàat M"adrit, heretofore mentiorted, is the finest modern specimen wepossess in this way. A fastidious critic in traversing this fine city(Paris), and casting his éye over its embellishments, would be inc1inedto say of the triumphal arch in the Tuilleries, that the biped figures aretoo large, injnring the effect. of the borses which are intended for theprincipal objects. That the column in the Place de Vendome has itssurnmit too bald of decoralion (the cIimbing of futile vanity out of the.question) for 80 highly wrought a shaft; a.nd that the new front to theTuillerics, of the Corinthian order, has its basement of a plainness which.does not harmonizewitb the beautifur richness above. So hard is it togairfor retain in human hands that consistency which in those ofNatureis ne\'er deficient.'nIe ~fenagcrie, and its arljunct the Botanic Garden, come, the oneliterallyand the other metaphorîcally but col1oquially, under the defillitionof the Lions of Paris; and are ta be visited&s such byaH who would~peak ofthis city as baving visitcd it. The abjects .indeed are entitle