WINDSOR CASTLE, (N.E.)

Our sketchy tour of Windsor Castle has hitherto been told in visits far between, perhaps, if not few, for the interesting character of the whole fabric.[1]

The present Cut includes the North-east view, a picturesque if not important point.  The reader will remember, if he has not enjoyed, the splendid 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,) is Brunswick Tower, with a projecting bastion in its front containing the apparatus for heating the orangery, with rooms for the attendants; it is octagon shaped, and has a most commanding appearance, the height being 120 feet above the level of the terrace.

A staircase turret communicates with the apartments, the principal one being appropriated as a private dining-room by the late King, while the larger apartments on the east front were reserved for splendid entertainments.  In a central position between the state dining-room and St. 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 state apartments by a corridor terminating at the King’s Guard Chamber, where a new tower, named after George the Third, has been erected:  the principal window is extremely large, and divided by Gothic tracery into several compartments, producing a noble and cathedral-like appearance.

Beneath the Castle, in the Engraving, are seen the wooded slopes of the Little 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.

[1] For Views of Windsor Castle, with the late renovations, see the
    following Numbers of the Mirror: 

    No. 292, George the Fourth’s Gateway, South and East Sides.

    Long Gallery.

    No. 437, Bedchamber in which George IV. died.

    No. 444, Private Dining Room.

    No. 486, George IV.  Gateway, from the interior of the Quadrangle.

    No. 488, St. George’s Chapel.

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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 seems therefore to me a very curious thing to find a learned man and an accomplished courtier protesting against book-learning as an evil, so far back as the year 1646, and a curious thing he himself appears to have thought it, introducing his opinion as a “paradox” until he explains.  In this explanation we find the same opinion that is now strenuously insisted on by Mr. Cobbett, namely, that a man who properly understands his own business or employment, though he have nothing of literature, is by no means to be accounted ignorant.