als, charities, and endowments, their munificence has
showered down, from the heights of prosperity, upon the depths of
poverty--to trace the progress of the philanthropist of later times, in
his house to house visits, and read statistics of his labours in the
renovated homes and gladdened hearts of thousands, thus lifted out from
the swamps of misery and crime, by the single hand of Christian
benevolence, stretched forth in sympathy; to mark the efforts of
legislation to remove causes that evil results may cease, to note the
patriotism of honest hearts, that would seek to level, if at all, by
lifting up the poor to that standard of moral and physical comfort,
beneath which the manhood of human nature has neither liberty nor room to
grow; and finally, it is his to cast into the treasury of his nation's
history his gleanings among the bye-ways of a single city, no mean or
despicable bundle of facts, with which to enrich its stores.

But we must tarry no longer to generalize with archaeologist, poet or
historian; we have many storehouses to visit, where associations of
religion, poetry, and art, lie garnered up in rich abundance.

CHAPTER II.
THE CATHEDRAL.

THE CATHEDRAL.--_Forms_.--_Symbols_.--_Early history of the Christian
church_.--_Growth of superstition_.--_Influence of
Paganism_.--_Government_.--_Growth of the Papacy_.--_Monasticism_.--_St.
Macarius_.--_Benedict_.--_St. Augustine_.--_Hildebrand_.--_Celibacy of
the clergy_.--_Herbert of Losinga_, _founder of Norwich
Cathedral_.--_Crusades_, _their influence on Civilization_.--_Historical
memoranda_.--_Bishop Nix_.--_Bilney_.--_Bishop Hall_.--_Ancient religious
festivals_.--_Easter_.--_Whitsuntide_.--_Good Friday_.--"_Creeping to the
Cross_."--_Paschal taper_.--_Legend of St. William_.--_Holy-rood
Day_.--_Carvings_.--_Origin of grotesque sculptures_.--_Old Painting_:
_mode of executing
it_.--_Speculatory_.--_Cloisters_.--_Anecdote_.--_Epitaph_.--_List of
Bishops_.--_Funeral of Bishop Stanley_.

"What is a city?" "A city contains a cathedral, or Bishop's see."

Such being the definition given us in one of those valuable literary
productions that we were wont in olden time to call Pinnock's
ninepennies, and which have since been followed by dozens upon dozens of
series upon series, written by a host of good souls that have followed in
his wake, devoting themselves to the task of retailing homeopathic doses
of concentrated geography, biography, philosoph