THE ALRAMBRA COURT OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

Here stands the fountain cool in the pallid grey. 'of its itarble, but'bet Ath .1;ont-,JN-. Ramsay, Gent.; -E...Idtclan,_,Gent., 19th -J. G. SnirtIC, ypt pouring its showery light into the sunshine nor :vocal with its liquid C. ,1s'Bilinhnrd,'Gent. ent. •111t11 oot- . yehevr, Footl-eit. P. Hawhes, tient.

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tion seentirte have punished the daring artist with sterility... Comic they of Foot Guards-To be•Eneiga' ispand, Lients-.1,by mineliase,-G; L..1tose,1 Onnt.,,vice truly are ..but ,their ima.ssuming naIfete. redeems- them from being CO- Cloodlake, promoted; . M., Ives;••Gtininivico ltantidem ,poonsoted. • 134 Foot - t.Olptible.- - Note, too, that theirtpraintness has nothing Of the grotesque; 0. J. R. lrykr, Gent. tote Ensign, .by,buterizase, ,,tico Snob, misomdirca. , 1.001 Foot an eliment_which appeals altogether'alien from the' Sarecenie spitit'in , vnte,Berat.p.trLittelial .1.3o9f...-.W.74E,rTyler, Gent. te art.. A Gothit or Lomliardie workman who could not :do n grand lion he Ensign, t'ly itla%illi:sre7,‘el i mai; Footpeldrevet Alajor :1;4

would have Mined at a ,gretesciue, one or even without intending' it, watild Carey to be Alajoil witbotit Ter.:Mate,' vlemdlrevet.:LietrbetColeMoorth, deccigedg

inevitably have fallen into the grotesque in failing to attain the truthful Lietitt. R. G:- Granville' to be. Capt,wittinutpuiroltasepoicii3Oirey o: ye,,:xesse.terdis or tlie Characteristic. The Moorish artisrfails and his prodnet is simply been cancelled; 1..n,ign G.,W;llostlity to dm 1Lient:..nabotatnpurehose.,.. vice t.raal a bathed. vine,: proutoted. 351h- Foot-Lientrorl.G. • 51. Skihnerdfirarn, :the ,3d..: West .114Itt

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The gilding of the Columns in- this 220th:tent is conjectural, as the originals present no traces of colour. , Wet have nothing but praise to best6*.ini their' effect ; but Mr. Jotie.q" althehrgfrhe 'additees.sonte special reasons for concluding that these columns .must have been cOloure-d, in seine way by the Moors, relies mainly, we fanedy, on what he iissuMegto be the necessarily-bad effect of any considerable: white,: Surface:44n°' - loured building. This we conceive to be a_pr,ejudice. There is no teason why white should not enter largely into a general scheme of colour, nor any so far as we can see, why it should not have looked very well in this particular case, although possibly the gilding may look still better. "The deboration of other parts of the court-in the stalactite:arches, forin- both, and the peculiar catholic unction, which pervade them. First Rille-BrIgsideJ-Sectent ,leislatelEalAnAdeluindtir.abo,hejadutqlet7purellaireinace The greatest and signal success of the Art Courts in the Crystal Palace is the Alhambra Court, reproduced with knowledge, skill, and, aboveall, ima spirit of genuine love, by Mr. Owen Jones. The objections which may be urged in other instances do not apply here, or cease to be :objec- tiemS. Like the .EgyptMn Court, the Alhambra is diminished in scale; butits characte't and effent do' not depend on size, and the dimensions of the parts, together with the relative proportions as far as practicable, are generally if not always preserved. Like the Grecian :and Assyrian Courts, the colouring of this is to some considerable extent conjectural; but" it proceeds on well-established principles, if not ',on unquestioned matter of fact, and neither startles by innovation like the Grecian exneri- merit, nor disturbs by incongruity like the Assyria; nor outrages by bad taste like some others. Here there can be no serious mistake. One hue may probably enough be 'substituted for another on some particular moulding, but the general scheme of the colour is scarcely less certain than the fact that colour of some kind there must be. Ilesides, even were this point a much more dubious one than it is, the crewning argument remains that the result is beautiful and eminently so. "Wisdom is justified of- her children." To enter the Alhambra Court is an'unmixed pleasure. On a dull day it is warm and genial; on a bright day cool and refreshing ; ever brilliant with gold and scarlet, rich, sumptuous, and jewel-like, yet blended into a wholeness and a mys- tery full of repose for wearied eyes. Some weeks ago, the effect was still more gorgeous than it is now; for then the flower-beds which well nigh Monopolize the floor of the Court of Lions flamed with the cluster- ing crimson of the orpine, tempered in its profusion with the flush and glow of roses, and even the Saracenic love of colour paled beside the pas- sion of Nature._ The harmony was- a vehement, yet a delightful one. Now it is more seher ; the orpine blooms there no mot; and the Compa- ratively dark and retiring leafage of the .geranium outbalances its flowers : 11th Foot-S. J. Shorn, Gent. 13111 loot-H. Gillett,. beul; W. Willisuno, Gent, a harmony stilt, but in a key less stirring and less Oriental.- 14th Foot-J. D. Bradley, Gent. 15th Foot-W. G. Hawkins, Gent.; T. E. Dick- ,..,.e P GGeent ;; Berefirs2-biet. :31st lo'ot°1-.-ettl.-.P.Balirleytti,eGGe lecotrtj: auction of any actual part of the Alhambra, into the Couri of Lions. Yv_ e.

murmur. The lions are queer quaint. &IBS, liehign. incapability, .of Gent.; Whether she or wolf, which we have all, before the age of ten, located ceient. 59th Jltrint. Footi-L,E....TraheraboGent.ii

visage and of pose, as of the flret childish effort at the animal, no matter

With a ravelled thread for its foliage. - The lions' legs are square Posts, 77th Foot-Gm. E. Leggett, Gent. 79th loot-W. J. M. craw[arcti■Gent. 59th toot and their tails, like something between a scimitar and a laurel-leaf, lie G. Pattisson, Gent.• R J. Al:a 11

fur than twist of smoke out of. its chimney, flanked on either hand by. c ,trees clinging along their hminehes. Primitive art was never in ore Ilnalleees8-

stance--appeared so charming when -M its preparatory. onte-of red and *bin lirdt-nay;, root;, to be Vaptivite,-BreilealidOull-GnibindlitY, White only, that -we couldiseateely for1ieata4egietithat it should be . -Lieut. :Se aolie.Papleibrpareniteipoiese4Sectona1ddcrehotreti1esr Ensign,dtsia- 4testirted for alteratien even into so .thrdlighl,:v' initIsfactoue a (lovely. t .Liebrto. be,.Lieut by phrobaser.IVicemCsdftett.41.'filimritekkhmretabeetesigh,e4W axiChas now undergone.----------. ...-Beyond the Court of Liens 11.0*.tlie.)TallOf Instice ; and beyana that a Ciftit-room containing the original plaster costs taken by Mr. 4osesuisi4he Casa Real in 183.7,, with illustrations and Authorities. fThe Qom- niemotative reliefs designed, ;by the Christian conquerors of Granada are worthy of special notice-feetha national character, Spanish and Mehrish comes the triumphant progress' Perdivand and.Isabella, with Cardinal m and retinue ; than the humiliation of the departing Boabdil; third and Skinner; Opp efil ted.*0 e Isuy Bsetio ,ur,osll ,e‘.. ..n.isa-:eloroul II. I c fourth, the wholesale conversions of Moorish menand women baptized, so,great was their multitude, by aspersion en masse, but remaining, as the event proved,' "infidels" lteMt theirliegarieue zeal. Next to the east-room lies; as yet unopened, the Hell of the: Aliencerrages ; and adjoining:that, an apartmentwith divans. The endless intortexture and convolution of the wall-patterning exhaust the eye without Wearying it ; and, if the colour is grateful without glare in the light, in the shade which overlies the Hall of Justice it tells at a few paccs'_ distance with

only the richtess of dead gold, and of dyes felt buteuhrealiked, and dim - „ . with:mutual counteraction: •

-Luxury, and purity, are. the .qualities of expreSSion, to be :found in their perfection' in the architecture Of the Alhambra ;• and the purity is the es- sence of the luxury. The two are not ordinarily. conceived of as related, it is true ; and profisien thillouti Offeeltinigoiatite, or refinement, May at first seem the more appropriate,mannyfor the spirit of the style. These,. however, are only-modes of the 'central ide;secondaries derived from the primary ; While the luxury is a result,' and not a 'principle. The brightest colours, belt reniembered, arctlie,purest an.4 the-purest of all taste is that which can not only choose . them hy'preference, but can so combine them also as to give, without glare or fierceness, -a splendour as of kings' chambers, and a perfect harmony mid balance. Restrieted'hy religious creed to the purest of all typical forms, those of geOetrical lines and combinations, the Arab genius elaborated these-wittithe most

chquisite subtilty Of curve proportion, and poured forth designs with the exuberance of unclogged inve.ution. The invention is, indeed, rather

ingenuity than imagination, or even fancy ; and • .Gothic leaf ranks higher to the intellect, because hasMore perception:and feeling, and means inof C, then a whole wall fretted-into Arabesque: but this is the necessity et' the ease. The lines are. SharP„ clean, and, with all their tWined involution, Continuous. Nothing is arbitrary or extravagant, no- thing hybrid or amorphous ; each minutest detail a part of the whole, an offshoot of some stem, a completion of some ineompleteuess. :Unsullied cleanliness seems a necessary quality for an Oriental as fre- quent 'ablution is a religions duty for its inhabitants. Colour and mould- ing.are firelike;Apikient-a form Stig„eesting. the purity of lambent dame. The intricacy is like -the intricacy Of the science of numbers7-a perfect simplicity of prineiple-canablmof infinite extension. Arab ornament: •• " chell 'floppier degli eeaechi i'immilla " ; , thita is all •interdenendent, and resolves itself into few elements. It satisfies the most consummate refinement by satisfying the universal in- stinct ; and While" ministering' to luxury by its splendour, and lightness, and lorelYeenapleteness, supplies' this crowning luXury-that the behold-- er's sensmof beauty is equallysated on a close view or mdistant, in repose or in motion, and without any tax on- his reflective pourers.