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 152 Architecture in Great Britain. of the day, adhering in them to the Italian style ; but shortly after his death, the publication of the various plates and descriptions of the ruins discovered in Greece led to a rage for Greek in preference to Roman forms. The brothers Adam endeavoured, with but small success, to imitate Greek forms in the Adelphi Terrace, the screen of the Admiralty, and other buildings in London ; much of the detail of their work, however, especially of its internal finishing, was very graceful and well-designed. They were more successful in producing an effective exterior in the college at Edinburgh, with its fine monolithic pillars. It is difficult to understand to what Sir Robert Taylor owes his reputation. His buildings connected with the Bank of England are certainly inferior to the prison of Newgate, designed by Dance, which is, in its way, a masterpiece of appropriate and original architectural expressions of character. 6. — Architecture in England in the Nineteenth Century. The Classical Revival of the present century, inaugurated by Sir William Chambers in the latter part of the eigh- teenth century, was at first marked by Italian features. The publication of Dawkin's and Wood's " Illustrations of Palmyra and Baalbec," in 1750, first directed English attention to the beauties of Roman buildings, and this interest was sustained by Adam's " Spalatro," brought out ten years later. It was the series of works on Greece and Greek antiquities, commenced by Stuart in 1762 and completed by Cockerell in 1861, which led to the pre- ference of Greek to Roman forms. The Greek Doric became the favourite order, and soon not a building, how-