The reader is, we trust, already familiar with our division of landscapes into two natural classes,-the Beautiful and the Picturesque,-and the two accordant systems of improvement in Landscape Gardening which we have based upon these distinct characters. Now, in order to render our buildings perfectly harmonious, we conceive it only to be necessary to arrange (as we may very properly do) all the styles of domestic architecture in corresponding divisions.
Some ingenious writer has already developed this idea, and, following a hint taken from the two leading schools of literature and art, has divided all architecture into the Classical and the Romantic schools of design. The Classical comprises the Grecian style, and all its near and direct offspring, as the Roman and Italian modes; the Romantic school, the Gothic style, with its numberless variations of Tudor, Elizabethan, Flemish, and old English modes.
