printed books include Tyndale's Pentateuch and his New
Testament; and the Sumner and Hale bequests include large numbers of
curious tracts and pamphlets. Richard Jennings' model of the centre of
the west front is preserved. In the eighteenth century St. Paul's was a
favourite place for weddings, and the registers, with many interesting
names, are being edited for the Harleian Society. The Trophy Room above
the North-West Chapel contains Wren's model, which was restored when
Sydney Smith was a Canon.

* * * * *

We are quite content to follow Fergusson, and let the architectural
value of New St. Paul's stand or fall with the literary value of
"Paradise Lost." Just as Addison says of the latter: "In poetry as in
architecture, not only the whole, but the principal members and every
part of them should be great"; "there is an unquestionable
magnificence in every part"; "a work which does an honour to the
English nation": just as Macaulay corroborates by eulogising it as
"that extraordinary production which the general suffrage of critics
has placed in the highest class of human compositions"--even so we may
end here, and describe this unique and marvellous conception of a man
who was not a trained architect, who was never known to have travelled
further than Paris and who was incessantly hampered and hindered, as a
conception, not indeed architecturally faultless, but for all that and
leaving out the much greater St. Peter's, as the finest church of the
Renaissance style and epoch, more stable and better adapted for public
worship than any earlier cathedral in England. To the Renaissance, the
genius of Milton contributed an epic in blank verse, the genius of
Wren a second in stone.

FOOTNOTES:

[90] Ground-plan of Interior of First Design in Fergusson's "Modern
Architecture," p. 260; and in Longman, p. 110, where the scale, though
not given, is 1-1/2 inches to the 100 feet.

[91] "Parentalia," p. 290. The Temple of Peace is now known as the
Basilica of Constantine or Maxentius.

[92] _Fortnightly Review_, October, 1872.

[93] "Handbook," p. 495.

[94] Tract II. in "Parentalia," p. 357. His mathematical
demonstrations with their diagrams, wherein he works out the centre of
gravity, are too technical for insertion. The Tract is incomplete.

[95] "Parentalia," p. 291.

[96] The two others on the west wall represent Melchisedek blessing
Abraham, and David as a man of war praising G