7. LATER GREEK ARCHITECTS, 136 8. ALEXANDRIAN ERA, AND ROMAN SPOLIATION, 148 9. ALEXANDRIAN ARCHITECTS, 164 INDEX OF ARCHITECTS AND ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTORS, 185 CHAPTER I. THE POPULAR APPRECIATION OF ARCHITECTS. Of all the fine arts none more completely answers for its _raison d’être_ than architecture. In this art alone do we find the harmonious mingling of æsthetical fancy with utilitarian purpose. It is this feature of usefulness that completes its well-rounded perfection, rather than detracts from it, and dignifies its mission of existence. Architecture, in its capacity to draw to its enrichment the other arts, may be compared to the polished orator, whose purpose is to sway the judgment of his audience by forensic effort, embellishing his language with the flowers of rhetoric, adapting his gestures to graceful emphasis, and controlling his voice to suit the light and shade of his thought. So sculpture has been stimulated by architecture and has contributed to its ornamentation; painting has been invoked to the highest accomplishments, and music has awakened within its walls voice and harmony. “The progress of other arts depends on that of architecture,” Sir William Chambers very truly says. “When building is encouraged, painting, sculpture, gardening and all other decorative arts flourish of course, and these have an influence on manufactures, even to the minutest mechanic productions; for design is of universal advantage, and stamps a value on the most trifling performance.”