VI

DEDICATION.

The duties connected with that station, of course, leave you little leistirefor other pursuits. Still if there he any one of the fine arts more particularlyentitled to the attention of the Statesman, that one is Architecture, because itcalls into action so many and such various branches of mechanical labour;and because, operating thus extensively upon national industry, it also pro-motes national prosperity. Consequently the dissemitiation of a taste for it,among the middling as tvell as the more opulent classes of a State, is recom-mended no less by sound policy than by a regard to more direct and moreobvious results.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient and humble servant,

F. GOODWIN.