Conclusion of the Inquiry.-After tracing the various past changes of taste in gardening and architecture, I cannot suppress my opinion that we are on the eve of some great future change in both those arts, in consequence of our having lately become acquainted with scenery and buildings in the interior provinces of India. The beautiful designs published by Daniell, Hodges, and other artists, have produced a new source of beauty, of elegance, and grace, which may justly vie with the best specimens of Grecian or Gothic architecture: and, although the misapplication of these novel forms will, probably, introduce much bad taste in the future architecture of this country, yet we may reasonably expect that some advantage will be taken of such beautiful forms as have never before been adopted in Europe. When a partiality for such forms is patronised and supported by the highest rank, and the most acknowledged taste, it becomes the duty of the professor to raise the importance, by increasing the variety of his art. It is, therefore, with peculiar satisfaction that my opinion has lately been required in some great works of this style, which are in too early a stage of progress to be referred to in this volume, although an Inquiry into the past Changes in the general Taste of a country may properly conclude with such notice concerning the future changes probably to be expected.
