take a turn in the city. If he finds a single design less than thirty
years old worthy of a place in the volumes I have named, he will
have succeeded where, after diligent search and inquiry, I have utterly
failed. I have been able to mention with unqualified commendation
but two or three buildings in all, and they belong to a modern style
so unusual in city architecture that they only serve to make the
examples around them more distressing.