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Middlesex has now
retired to the north, and the
city and shire are both called
shire.”
London under recent legis¬
lation.
To get into the city from
the westward, whether we go
by way of Fleet Street or
through Holborn,
cross the zone of the lawyers.
we must
Gray's Inn is outside the city
limits, but contains so many
picturesque corners and garden
There is a great
it has undergone in recent years.
I cannot conceive anything more
entirely contrary to all the prin¬
ciples of beauty in architectural art
than the new buildings at the foot
of Middle Temple Lane.
had occasion to say several times
I have
over that ornament, however lavish,
will not make an ugly building
pretty. The rule is admirably
There
are, however, better things than
this in both the Temples. The
hall doors in King’s Bench Walk,
the Middle Temple Hall,
illustrated by this example.
Dean