Ornamented And Stained Glass.

damaged m effect by the contrast of the stained glass . _ The Exhibition of 1851 Avas a landmark in the history of glass-painting , as of most other industrial production . The works of Harchnan , and the French AvindoAvs of Lussow , Gerente , Capronier , and others

, took the conceit out of most English glass painters . Then commenced a demand for a natural representation of the human figure , instead ofthe symbolical treatment ofthe thirteenth century ,- also for sheets of glass of similar texture to the old ; this has been responded to by Messrs .

PoAvell , of Whitefriars , and Messrs . Hartley , of Sunderland . There is still a Avant of circular ruby like that of the thirteenth century , ancl at a reasonable price ; but this is likely to be supplied by Dr . Sahdati , of Venice . The short-comings of the English lass painters

g were amply redeemed iu the Exhibition of 1802 . No French work came up to either Clayton ' s glorious St . Cecilia , or Jones ' s glass for Waltham Abbey . The efforts of the French artists consisted of close imitations of ancient glass , or of semi-transparent paintings . Their attempts in the

former Avere as a Chinaman's would be . You may remember a work of Coffetier , a reproduction of old glass : the subject AA as a Virgin ancl Child . The sinking of the surface of the glass below the traced lines , the effect of great age , AA as j . rodnced by the use of fluoric acid . This is on a par Avith the representation of decayed teeth in Buskin ' s Benaissance lion . The French artists have not

yet giA r en that attention to material that has been an Englishman ' s care . The productions of Gerente are about the best of the modern French school , and his works have been fashionable in England ; but compare his great staring Avindow in Christ Church , Oxford , Avith the one in honour of the

founder , a portion of which Avas in the Exhibition of 1862 . In HarroAV School chapel there is a most instractiAre series of iArindows by Gerente , Wailes , and Clayton & Bell : the adA'ance in the art shown by the Avorks of the last firm is unmistakable . The new Gothic Church of Sainte Clothilde , in Paris ,

is filled Avith the best efforts of the modern French school of glass and Avail painting , and in both there is an entire absence of Gothic feeling ; for , although the figures are Avell drawn , they appear more like coloured German prints than Avhat figures in stained lass should be .

g The exportation of painted AvindoAvs should be to France , not of French Avork to England , for the English school of glass painting- ' is as much in advance of the French school as the illustrations of

our OAVU Punch are superior to those of their CJiarivari . It is customary to produce stained glass AvindoAA's , or painted glass ( the terms are synoirymous ) , hy the square foot . The best English work varies from 30 s . to 40 s . per foot . The pretty picture glass of the Munich school is rarely supplied under £ 5 per foot . That price AA as paid for the glass in Peterhouse Chapel , Cambridge .

Ornamented And Stained Glass.

lhe new windoAv that embellishes the east end of the church in Star-street , Paddington , cost £ 6 each square foot , and the cartoons AA ere aftenvards bought for a very high price , said to be £ 500 . The plainest glazed work has shared in the improvement of the higher branches . Quarries ,

formed by horizontal and perpendicular lines , and of many tints of Avhite glass , mixed , or German circles , each about 4 in . diameter , and glazed together , frequently take the place of the old Gin . by 4 m . quarry of bilious cathedral glass . At the building of the University Unionat Oxfordthe glazing

, , with German circles was absurdly objected to , as looking like frog-spaAvn , or bottle bottoms . The upper parts of the Oxford Museum have since been glazed in this Avay ; and Avhen , the sun shines on them , they are as bright and beautiful as clusters of diamonds .

A clever modification of circular glazing has been introduced by Mr . Norman Shaw , architect . It is the use ofthe centres of croAvn tables of glass , usually called " bulls' eyes . " They are of the most trifling A ahie , and answer the purpose ofthe expensive German circles . It is an improvement

partially to stain a feAv of them . It is a step in the Avrong direction to use the sheets of rolled glass in Avhich imitation lead lines are produced by indentations . The ancients were compelled to lead together their small pieces of glass , and the needless imitation of this has ahvays

a cheap-and-nasty appearance . The press has hitherto taken but little part in educating the public in the knoAvledge of glass painting . An occasional honest ancl learned criticism on completed windoivs ivould prevent , in great measure , the selection of the trumpery Avorks that sometimes disgrace our churches . —CLEMENT HEATON , in the Builder .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

BItO . THE REVERES !) DE . BODD , FOEMEIt-LT GltAlfD CHAPLAIX . Several inquiries having been made in these columns for a biographical sketch of the unfortunate Bro . Dr . Dodcl , we are happy to be enabled to furnish a trustworthancl fair memoir of himextracted

very y , from the number for February 25 th , 18 G 5 , of that clever and amusing periodical , Once a Week . Of course this has no reference to his Masonic career , which we have already given , hut is a short biography of him , and exhausts the main facts of his history . The AA'riter : —¦

says " "William Dodd , * born in 1729 , Avas the son of a clergyman , who for many years Avas vicar of Bourne , in Lincolnshire . After finishing his school education , Dodd Avas , in 1645 , admitted as a sizar at Clare Hall , Cambridge . He appears to have attracted the notice