ng that the very greatest care
seems to have been taken to secure good likenesses in the most recent
monuments, those of three, as to which the writer can speak from
personal knowledge--Bishop Woodford, Dean Merivale, and Canon
Selwyn--being of conspicuous merit.

It would require a book to itself to treat exhaustively of the stained
glass in the windows. In nearly all cases, certainly in those which can
be examined without the aid of a glass, the names of the donors, or of
the persons to whose memory the windows were inserted, are plainly set
forth either in the windows or on brass tablets adjoining. It should be
stated that the greatest encouragement to this form of decoration was
given by Canon E. B. Sparke, who secured, partly by his influence and
persuasion, and largely by his own munificence, the insertion of so many
windows. It is true that in the first instance not a few were prepared
in too great a hurry, and some of those first placed in the restored
cathedral (as those in the octagon) have been at a later time condemned
as being deficient in harmony of colouring and in artistic design; but
there is little fault to be found with the most recent additions. Among
so many it is inevitable that very different degrees of merit will be
exhibited. It has been said that the entire series is an exemplification
of the Horatian maxim, "Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala
plura"; and, except that we should be disposed to exchange the position
of the words "quaedam" and "plura" (if the metre allowed it), with this
sentiment we agree.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Quite recently further security has been attained by a system
of iron bracing, not visible from beneath.

[2] "Ely Gossip," p. 39.

[3] When Murray's "Eastern Cathedrals" was published, Mr. Gambier
Parry's work had not been begun; and by comparing the above list
with the list there given as the proposed series of sacred
subjects for the last six bays of the ceiling, it will be seen
that the last three subjects are not the same as at first
intended.

[4] From the key to the ceiling by Dean Stubbs, in "Handbook,"
20th ed., pp. 60, 61.

[5] Admirable and exhaustive descriptions of these pieces of
sculpture, with sketches of six of them, are given in Dean
Stubbs' "Historical Memorials of Ely Cathedral," pp. 71-84. The
account in the text of the miracle on the seventh corbel is