Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Royal Institute of British Architects, Vol. 1: Transactions, 1885; Fifty-First Year of Foundation
It has witnessed almost the whole career Of one of the greatest architects of modern times - Charles Barry - and of another man of genius, architect and writer, Augustus Welby Pugin; the whole career Of George Gilbert Scott, and also, unhappily as regards their termination, those of George Edmund Street and William Burges, whose loss we have so sorely mourned as all but irreparable not to speak of those who before its commencement had made their names famous, including our first professional President, the eminently learned and graceful Charles Robert Cockerell, nor Of those whose careers commencing within its area are still happily amongst us.
What the next half century may produce, if the world lasts so long, God only knows; but if I may compare the privileges now possessed by the young men of our fraternity, with those with which the great men I have named were familiar in their youth, presuming there is in the rising generation genius as yet undeveloped equal to that which has preceded it, much ought to be expected.
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