ABSTRACT
One of the most important principles in architecture, is, that a building should be adapted in its form and internal economy to its uses, and harmonize in its ornaments with the spirit of its destination. “The architecture of the period of Elizabeth has strictly no style of its own. But by Elizabethan forms are generally understood those which began to prevail in the century preceding the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII.,” belonging to what correctly should be called the early Tudor style, or Perpendicular Pointed Gothic. In Germany architecture has become a regal amusement from the following description of the Palace of the King of Bavaria, at Munich. For ecclesiastical architecture, the Grecian style, modified and ornamented afterwards by the Italians, has ever prevailed, and prevails in Russia. One ornament of the Russian churches, which is almost universal, has excited the attention and curiosity of all travellers.
