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' ee oi i Fi 4 Tt ' mi a s =e = ‘he. = * SUUTH AFRICAN HOUSE, BISHOPSGATE STREET spared. The maximum of ornament is associated with the minimum of design, and the chief modern buildings of the city are much more remarkable for their cost than for their beauty. This is but a melancholy conclusion to be forced upon us; but if any one doubts its correctness let him spend a few hours in examining Kent’s book on Inigo Jones or Campbellt s Vztruvius Britannicus, and let him then thing and care less about proportion, and think they have done something fine when they have imported a design bodily from abroad, as, for instance, in a new india-rubber warehouse in Cheapside, which looks as if it had stepped across from Bruges, or the front of a Venetian palazzo which faces the Bank of England in Lothbury. Everywhere money has been lavished, brains have been
