Upon the whole, we cannot help thinking some of the details of this new range extremely rich and pleasing, although we assent to the above character of their general effect.  The columns, of fluted Corinthian, and the cornice of the order, are to us very beautiful; but the upper windows are unsightly, or, as a wag would say, purely attic; and the entrances are too strictly official for the architecture of the building.  This brings us again to the inappropriateness of the adaptation, which made these introductions unavoidable.[2]

The front of the building is not completed, the northern wing having yet to be erected.  When this is finished, the effect may be materially assisted.

While we are in this quarter, and lest “we may never come again,” it may be as well to thank our correspondent, “An Architect,” for his letter on “Whitehall,” a very small portion of which has ever been completed.  What has been finished—­the Banqueting House—­is one of the triumphs of Inigo Jones, but like all human works, is sadly dilapidated; although this is attributable to the bad material, rather than to the interval since its erection.  The whole was, indeed, a magnificent design.

    [1] The portion of this temple which is still standing in the Campo
        Vaccino, and which consists of three marble columns, with a
        fragment of entablature, is universally acknowledged to be the
        finest specimen, not only of the architecture of the Augustan
        age, but of the Corinthian order, not merely in Rome, but
        throughout the whole ancient world.  Whether contemplated in the
        original, or through the medium of drawings, it inspires
        unequivocal admiration as a perfect model of the florid style: 
        and from the inferences deducible from the dimensions and
        relative position of the three columns and their entablature,
        it is clear that the elegance and propriety of their arrangement,
        as members of an entire edifice, were equal to the grace of the
        proportions of the still existing parts, and to the beauty,
        however exquisite, of their enrichments.

    [2] One of the most characteristic buildings recently erected in
        the metropolis, was the ill-fated Brunswick Theatre, the
        propriety of whose facade was universally acknowledged.

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CROMLECH.

(To the Editor of the Mirror.)

In No. 328 of the MIRROR, you mistake in spelling cromlech; the last syllable is always written lech, not leh; neither is it derived from crom and leac, the Irish, but from crom and llech, the Celtic, of which the Irish is the most corrupted, and the present Welsh the most pure dialect. Llech signifies a stone in Welsh, and is pronounced in a way peculiar to the Welsh; when simple it is llech, when compounded lech.