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i iit yas it i) ms ; ghia S RU! MP BP 2 i Jif A ) vs a GATE IN GRAYS INN GARDENS a méj új Middlesex has now retired to the north, and the city and shire are both called shire.” London under recent legislation. 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 principles 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
