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 In the Nineteenth Century. 155 by 140 ft. wide, and the order by which it is ornamented is 58 ft. high. One grand hall occupies the centre, with wide recesses on either side. This fine building is adapted, not copied, from the great halls of the Thermae (baths) of Rome. The chief front has a portico with sixteen Cor- inthian columns, each 46 ft high ; and although its general idea is Roman, it is carried out with Greek details. In Edinburgh and Glasgow there are many successful Fig. 67. — Bridgewater House. buildings in the classic styles. The High School of Edin- burgh, by Hamilton, is perhaps the best. Sir Charles Barry was the first to realise how ill-adapted all this copying was to the requirements of our climate and our time ; and he reverted, with much success, to the types furnished by the best palatial buildings of the Italian Renaissance. He designed the Travellers' Club, the Reform Club, and Bridgewater House (Fig. 67), introducing in the two latter buildings the Italian cortile in a slightly altered