Bygone King's. By R. A. Austen Leigh, M.A. (Spottiswoode and
Co., Eton College. 10s. (3d. net.)—Here we may see some- thing of what is, of what has been, and of what might have been. Perhaps the last of these three items is the most interesting. The final engraving in the volume pictures for us " Gibb'4 Build- ing as proposed to be Gothicised." " Gibb's Building," it may be explained, as it is now to be seen, is the western side of a proposed quadrangle. This was erected in 1724-31. The original ccheme was for an eastern side, which was to be a replica of the western, but turned the other way; The southern side was to have con- tained the hall, with the buttery, kitchen, and cellars on one hand and the Provost's lodge on the other. The hall was to be adorned with a portico supported on eight Corinthian columns. It will hardly be denied that the College has as much of Gibb's work as is desirable. In a memorandum of his which has been preserved he describes "The Chapell "—this was to be the fourth side of his proposed quadrangle—as "a beautiful building of the Gothic Cast, but the finest I ever saw." There is no little significance in that "but."
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