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Excerpt from The Opening of the Crystal Palace: Considered in Some of Its Relations to the Prospects of Art In Mr. Laing's speech, at the opening of the palace, he declares that an entirely novel order of architecture, producing, by means of unrivalled mechanical inge nuity, the most marvellous and beautiful effects, sprang into existence to provide a In these words, the speaker is not merely giving utter ance to his own feelings. He is expressing the popular View of the facts, nor that a view merely popular, but one which has been encouraged by nearly all the professors of art of our time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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