This house is now in course of erection under the superintendence of Messrs. Salomons and Ely, in the Claremont road, Pendleton, near Manchester. The walls are faced in the lower part with red bricks, and red stone, from the neighborhood of Liverpool, is used for the window-dressings, etc. The upper part of walls will be faced with red tiles and half-timber work, and the roof will be covered with Staffordshire tiles. Lead lights will be largely used in the windows. Internally, the finish will be almost entirely in real woods, including walnut for the dining-room and vestibule, pitch-pine for the large hall, staircase, and billiard-room, ash for the morning-room, and oak for Mr. Armitage's own room. In all these the ceilings and dados are to be in wood. The contract for the whole of the above work, amounting to £6,507, is let to Mr. James Herd, of Manchester.--_Building News_.
[Illustration: SUGGESTIONS IN ARCHITECTURE.--AN ENGLISH COUNTRY RESIDENCE.]
That theory and practice are two very different things holds good in photography especially, and perhaps in no other branch of our art have so many theoretical formulæ been promulgated as in the collotype or Lichtdruck process. As our readers are aware, we have had an opportunity of seeing collotype printing in operation in several European establishments of note, and have, from time to time, published in these columns our experiences. But requests still come to us so frequently for information on the process that we have deemed it well to make a practical summary for the benefit of those who are working--or desire to work--the method.
The formulæ and manipulations here set down are those of Löwy, Albert, Allgeyer, and Obernetter, four of the best authorities on the subject, and we can assure our readers there is nothing described but what is actually practiced.
_Glass Plate for the Printing Block_.--Herr Albert, of Munich, uses patent plate of nearly half an inch in thickness, as most of his work is printed upon the Schnell press (machine press). Herr Obernetter, of Vienna, since he only employs the slower and more careful hand press, prefers plate glass of ordinary thickness as being handier in manipulation and better adapted to the common printing-frame.