tual one.

"Second, the expression of the figure seated at his left hand is quite
changed. In the copies it is a grave, serious, fine face: in the
original, though now indistinct, it evidently expressed 'open-mouthed
horror' at the declaration, 'One of you shall betray me.'

"Third, Judas in all copies is identified not only by the held bag of
money, but by the overturned saltcellar at his elbow. This last is not
in the original.

"The whole fresco, though now as well kept as may be, seems spoiling
fast. There is a Crucifixion at the other end of the same hall, in much
better preservation, though of the same date; and the doorway which the
tasteful Dominicans cut in the wall, through the bottom of the
painting, is, though blocked up, still quite visible. It is but too
probable that the monks valued the absurd and hideous frescoes in the
cloisters outside, representing Saint Dominic's miracles! and the
Virgin fishing souls out of purgatory with a rosary, beyond Lionardo's
great work."

So far my original note, written without supposing that the received idea,
as to the subject of the picture, had ever been questioned. In reference to
the question raised, however, I will briefly say, that, as recollection
serves me, it would require a well-sustained criticism to convince me that
the two disciples at the Saviour's right hand were not designed to express
the point of action described in the 23rd and 24th verses of chapter xiii.
of St. John's Gospel. Possibly MR. SMIRKE might favour us with the argument
of his MSS. on the group.

A. B. R.

Belmont.

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FONT INSCRIPTIONS.

(Vol. vii., p. 408.)

I have in my note-book the following entries:--

Kiddington, Oxon.:

"This sacred Font Saint Edward first receaved,
From womb to grace, from grace to glory went
His virtuous life. To this fayre isle beqveth'd.
Prase ... and to vs bvt lent.
Let this remaine the trophies of his fame;
A King baptized from hence a Saint became.

"This Fonte came from the King's Chapell in Islip."

Newark, round the base in black letter:

"Suis . Natis . sunt . Deo . hoc . Fonte . Renati . erunt."

On a pillar adjoining the font is a brass tablet with this inscription:

"This Font was demolished by the Rebels, May 9, 1646, and rebuilt by
the charity of Nicholas Ridley in 1660."

Kirton, Lincoln:

"Orate