TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
The readers of The Builder will be pleased to observe, that although it appears in the form of a Magazine, our own mind is not made up or reconciled to its continuing in that character, or at any rate in that character alone. We shall look forward with some anxiety to the period when we should be enabled to make it a complete Weekly Journal, and this cannot be done without comprehending news; neither do we think it economy that it should be otherwise—economy of time and economy of means are involved in it, particularly with the workman. A newspaper is to him a desideratum, and why should he be driven to something like a double reading, and the purchase of two papers: one containing a good deal of matter of no interest in the world to him, when so ready a means of combining both is offered as in this instance!
It is requested that where there has been any irregularity in the transmission of The Builder, notice will be forwarded immediately to the office.
Received Mr. Freeman Roe’s small tract, entitled “The Common Pump, &c.” which, as it may be practically interesting to many, we shall take an early opportunity of transcribing from.
Lithographic print of the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond, Andrew Trimen, Esq., architect. We shall notice this structure at an early opportunity.
“Palmer’s Patent Glyphography, or Engraved Drawing.”
Kelly’s Post Office Almanack.
Design and explanation of “A self-supporting Institution” for the Labouring Classes.
We are also preparing a weekly table of prices of Building materials; and a long list of Buildings in progress, and contemplated. All additions to our knowledge on this head will be thankfully received.
We have in preparation several articles:—1st. On Wood Pavements. 2nd. “The Metropolitan Model Institution, for improving the dwellings of the Industrious Classes.” 3rd. On Casinos in public parks and gardens. 4th. The Continuation of the Review of Bardwell’s Temples. 5th. Notice of Palmer’s Glyphography, &c.