Excerpt from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, Vol. 14: For July, 1815 Accordmg to the present sys tem of street architecture, design is entirely discarded, nor is any scape allowed for originality and invention: indeed, if ornament is sometimes attempted, it is gene rally in so trifling and flimsy a style, as rather to excite contempt than admiration; and fronts, half bean, half Quaker 1n their appear ance, in which meretricious finery is substituted for richness, where fantastic caprice supplies the place of novelty, and parsimonious na kedness ls palmed upon us for sim plicity, -disappoint and disgust the beholder, leaving him to re gret that niisapplication of labour and expence which has defeated their intent, but which, employed with economy and under theidi rection of a purer taste, might, without incurring greater cost, have produced a chaste and judicious decoration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.