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still remains . Attention was called to the reason of the nave and aisles of the church of conventual buildings remaining when there was no vestige of any other part . It arose from those portions being claimed as the parish church ; so that , at the dissolution of the monastic establishments , those to whom the rich lauds and ondoAvments were given took no care of the other portions of the buildings ;
but the parishioners secured that Avhich Avas claimed as their right , and preserved a place in Avhich they could worship . Thence we ivent to Crowland , to view the remains of that abbey , after ivhichwo Ausited Peakirk , a A ery curious church , with a Norman triple bell-cot , an arrangement not at all common . Northborough Church and House Avere the next
objects of our attention . This place possessed an interest as belonging to the Claypoles ; and there is a tradition that Cromwell was buried here , —that some of his friends , foreseeing tho insults to Avhich his remains would bo subjected , had his body privately interred on this spot . The building is a very intei-esting specimen of a fourteenth-century house , Avith , of course , many additions and disfigurements
made at all periods . We then saw Glinton and Woodcroft House , which gave Mr . Parker another opportunity of displaying his research in connection Avith early domestic buildings . In the evening Ave were invited to a fete cliamputre at the Yineyard , but the kind intentions of our entertainers were frustrated by the elements . Cold and damp , shaAvls ,
goloshes , and mackintoshes , arc very antagonistic to the gaiety and cheerfulness of outdoor amusements . On Simda ] - tho Bishop of Oxford attracted a largo congregation at the cathedral . He preached on the connection of the past ivith man ' s hope of the future . In shoAving " Avhence wc derived the interest in the past , " he affirmed that man must be educated before ho can look back ; that the uncivilized man only regards the present and his
immediate wants . He who considers the past ivith its memorials , however mean and trivial the remains of these memorials may be . is thereby led to a contemplation of the future to fit him for an immortality . On Monday we visited Elton , a fourteenth-century church ; Warmington , a veiy interesting church , Avith an early English tower , raid a very rich west door . The spire of
this church is esteemed one of the finest specimens in Northamptonshire . There is -, 0 , so a nave with a vaulted Avooden roof . Wc proceeded to Eothcringhay . The church is perpendicular , of the date 1140 . Nothing now remains of the castle , but a green mound is said to indicate where the keep was . A beautiful view is obtained from this point ; and , Avhilst standing here , we tried to elicit some remarks
from the fair biographer of the captive who made the castle famous , but she referred us to her book . Wo proceeded to Tansor and Cotterstock . At the latter church is one of the finest late decorated east windows . We had but a brief A'icw of Oundle , " and so home . " There was an excursion to Brixworfch on the Tuesday . The museum presented a choice collection of
subvery jects , especially in connection ivith " the many-faced Mary , " as she has beeu by some one called . The numerous portraits here exhibited justified tho sobriquet , for never Avas anything so extraordinary as the difference of the features at various times of her life . Love , romance , and adversity must have made her a Proteus . The illuminated manuscripts , Hours , & c , exhibited by Mr . Tito and the Eev . J .
Fuller Eussell at the Society of Antiquaries , Avere transferred to this place , and excited much attention . Ancl now to sum up the result of tho meeting . Wc visited more churches than on any previous occasion ; and all our proceedings had that branch of art as its leading feature . In this respect it ivas a success , but socially there was a great falling off . Save and excepting the generous hospitality of the clean , we saw no other interior .
This was the first attendance in that character of our new secretary , Mr . Warwick Brooks ; and his kind attention and courtesy to tho members evinced that , in connection with his other qualifications , bis appointment is one upon which the Institute may congratulate itself . It would be wrong to leave Avithout recording one fact ,
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which is most worthy of all commendation and general adoption . The dean has directed that the cathedral shall be ojien at all times . At different parts are suspended printed notices of the building , directing attention to the best points of A * iew , its dates , and descriptions of its style . Any one can , therefore , pursue his own inspection , enjoy his own reflections , and indulge in his own sentiments and contemplations ivithout being shackled ivith the gabble of an ignorant verger . —Builder .
French Antiquarian Researches In The East.
FRENCH ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES IN THE EAST .
Tho Erench expedition to Syria has been turned to good account , apparently , by employing a number of the soldiers , Avho had fortunately nothing else to do , in excaA'ating some highly interesting spots and leaving them accessible to future travellers . The savants entrusted Avith this work Avere M . Ernest Eeinan , of the Institute , and Dr . Gaillardot , and a report of a part of their work has just been made to tho Emperor .
In February last operations wore commenced at Saada and Sour , and in April ivorking was commenced at Tortose ; in consequence of having the aid of the army and marines , guided by intelligent officers , operations were carried out on a large scale in three or four different places at a time , each being continued for at least two months . M . Eeinan considers that he has executed at Saida and Sour all the
work for Avhich a largo number of men Avas required , and that he only reserves for himself an examination of the great Necropolis of Saida . He thinks that what has "been clone has added considerably to our knowledge of the religion , manners , and arts of the Phoenicians .
Saida , like Sour , he says has scarcely any trace of ancient Phoenicia left aboA'o ground , ancl that all that is to be seen in the present toAvn and its neighbourhood speaks of Eoman and Byzantine times . The caverns of Apollo , in the plains to the east of Sidon , Avhere Avas discovered in 1855 the Sarcophagus of Eschmunagor , now in the Louvre , is , says M . Eeinan one of tho most interesting necropoli of the
ancients . The Sarcophagus referred to above is loeculiarly remarkable for its inscription , and it Avas fully anticipated that others of a like kind would be discovered ; this , however has not been the case , but the excaA ations have , howover , not been mrproductive . Taking advantage of the largo amount of manual labour at his disposal , M . Eeinan cleared the ground to an extent of more than sixty yards
all round and right down to the rock , ancl has left the interior of the necropolis open and cleared for the examination of travellers . One of the treasures brought to light is a sarcophagus with a sculptured head , of which several speciments exist in A'arious museums , but the newly discovered example presents remarkable characteristics ; the others are generally merelsheath-shaped hagiwith
y sarcop , a head rudely indicated , but that discovered by M . Eeinan is sculptured more elaborately , ancl presents much more of the form of the human body ; the arms are cut clear of the sides , ancl in one of the hands is a small vase , and on the shoulder is a kind of scarf , the execution of the hands ancl amis is elaborate but not indicative of Greek artand M . Eeinan concludes that it cannot belong to a late
, period . His argument is that , although the Phoenicians preserved their peculiar customs nearly to the Christian epoch , they made use of Greek ornament in those latter clays , and not the ungainly kind of sculpture Avhich is exhibited in the sarcophagus in question .
Tho caverns , which M . Eeinan examined most carefully , are situated to the cast of tbe great cavern ; ancl although they present no outward appearance of grottos , he thinks that internally they present more interest than any other Phoenician tombs . He describes them as of three classes , and of various styles , and says that the rock is pierced with such a continuous series of caverns , and the Avails left standing between them are so thin , that it is wonderful the whole has not fallen in long since . Some of the caverns are rectangular , Avith a Avell-shaped entrance from nine to
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Architecture And Archaæology.
still remains . Attention was called to the reason of the nave and aisles of the church of conventual buildings remaining when there was no vestige of any other part . It arose from those portions being claimed as the parish church ; so that , at the dissolution of the monastic establishments , those to whom the rich lauds and ondoAvments were given took no care of the other portions of the buildings ;
but the parishioners secured that Avhich Avas claimed as their right , and preserved a place in Avhich they could worship . Thence we ivent to Crowland , to view the remains of that abbey , after ivhichwo Ausited Peakirk , a A ery curious church , with a Norman triple bell-cot , an arrangement not at all common . Northborough Church and House Avere the next
objects of our attention . This place possessed an interest as belonging to the Claypoles ; and there is a tradition that Cromwell was buried here , —that some of his friends , foreseeing tho insults to Avhich his remains would bo subjected , had his body privately interred on this spot . The building is a very intei-esting specimen of a fourteenth-century house , Avith , of course , many additions and disfigurements
made at all periods . We then saw Glinton and Woodcroft House , which gave Mr . Parker another opportunity of displaying his research in connection Avith early domestic buildings . In the evening Ave were invited to a fete cliamputre at the Yineyard , but the kind intentions of our entertainers were frustrated by the elements . Cold and damp , shaAvls ,
goloshes , and mackintoshes , arc very antagonistic to the gaiety and cheerfulness of outdoor amusements . On Simda ] - tho Bishop of Oxford attracted a largo congregation at the cathedral . He preached on the connection of the past ivith man ' s hope of the future . In shoAving " Avhence wc derived the interest in the past , " he affirmed that man must be educated before ho can look back ; that the uncivilized man only regards the present and his
immediate wants . He who considers the past ivith its memorials , however mean and trivial the remains of these memorials may be . is thereby led to a contemplation of the future to fit him for an immortality . On Monday we visited Elton , a fourteenth-century church ; Warmington , a veiy interesting church , Avith an early English tower , raid a very rich west door . The spire of
this church is esteemed one of the finest specimens in Northamptonshire . There is -, 0 , so a nave with a vaulted Avooden roof . Wc proceeded to Eothcringhay . The church is perpendicular , of the date 1140 . Nothing now remains of the castle , but a green mound is said to indicate where the keep was . A beautiful view is obtained from this point ; and , Avhilst standing here , we tried to elicit some remarks
from the fair biographer of the captive who made the castle famous , but she referred us to her book . Wo proceeded to Tansor and Cotterstock . At the latter church is one of the finest late decorated east windows . We had but a brief A'icw of Oundle , " and so home . " There was an excursion to Brixworfch on the Tuesday . The museum presented a choice collection of
subvery jects , especially in connection ivith " the many-faced Mary , " as she has beeu by some one called . The numerous portraits here exhibited justified tho sobriquet , for never Avas anything so extraordinary as the difference of the features at various times of her life . Love , romance , and adversity must have made her a Proteus . The illuminated manuscripts , Hours , & c , exhibited by Mr . Tito and the Eev . J .
Fuller Eussell at the Society of Antiquaries , Avere transferred to this place , and excited much attention . Ancl now to sum up the result of tho meeting . Wc visited more churches than on any previous occasion ; and all our proceedings had that branch of art as its leading feature . In this respect it ivas a success , but socially there was a great falling off . Save and excepting the generous hospitality of the clean , we saw no other interior .
This was the first attendance in that character of our new secretary , Mr . Warwick Brooks ; and his kind attention and courtesy to tho members evinced that , in connection with his other qualifications , bis appointment is one upon which the Institute may congratulate itself . It would be wrong to leave Avithout recording one fact ,
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which is most worthy of all commendation and general adoption . The dean has directed that the cathedral shall be ojien at all times . At different parts are suspended printed notices of the building , directing attention to the best points of A * iew , its dates , and descriptions of its style . Any one can , therefore , pursue his own inspection , enjoy his own reflections , and indulge in his own sentiments and contemplations ivithout being shackled ivith the gabble of an ignorant verger . —Builder .
French Antiquarian Researches In The East.
FRENCH ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES IN THE EAST .
Tho Erench expedition to Syria has been turned to good account , apparently , by employing a number of the soldiers , Avho had fortunately nothing else to do , in excaA'ating some highly interesting spots and leaving them accessible to future travellers . The savants entrusted Avith this work Avere M . Ernest Eeinan , of the Institute , and Dr . Gaillardot , and a report of a part of their work has just been made to tho Emperor .
In February last operations wore commenced at Saada and Sour , and in April ivorking was commenced at Tortose ; in consequence of having the aid of the army and marines , guided by intelligent officers , operations were carried out on a large scale in three or four different places at a time , each being continued for at least two months . M . Eeinan considers that he has executed at Saida and Sour all the
work for Avhich a largo number of men Avas required , and that he only reserves for himself an examination of the great Necropolis of Saida . He thinks that what has "been clone has added considerably to our knowledge of the religion , manners , and arts of the Phoenicians .
Saida , like Sour , he says has scarcely any trace of ancient Phoenicia left aboA'o ground , ancl that all that is to be seen in the present toAvn and its neighbourhood speaks of Eoman and Byzantine times . The caverns of Apollo , in the plains to the east of Sidon , Avhere Avas discovered in 1855 the Sarcophagus of Eschmunagor , now in the Louvre , is , says M . Eeinan one of tho most interesting necropoli of the
ancients . The Sarcophagus referred to above is loeculiarly remarkable for its inscription , and it Avas fully anticipated that others of a like kind would be discovered ; this , however has not been the case , but the excaA ations have , howover , not been mrproductive . Taking advantage of the largo amount of manual labour at his disposal , M . Eeinan cleared the ground to an extent of more than sixty yards
all round and right down to the rock , ancl has left the interior of the necropolis open and cleared for the examination of travellers . One of the treasures brought to light is a sarcophagus with a sculptured head , of which several speciments exist in A'arious museums , but the newly discovered example presents remarkable characteristics ; the others are generally merelsheath-shaped hagiwith
y sarcop , a head rudely indicated , but that discovered by M . Eeinan is sculptured more elaborately , ancl presents much more of the form of the human body ; the arms are cut clear of the sides , ancl in one of the hands is a small vase , and on the shoulder is a kind of scarf , the execution of the hands ancl amis is elaborate but not indicative of Greek artand M . Eeinan concludes that it cannot belong to a late
, period . His argument is that , although the Phoenicians preserved their peculiar customs nearly to the Christian epoch , they made use of Greek ornament in those latter clays , and not the ungainly kind of sculpture Avhich is exhibited in the sarcophagus in question .
Tho caverns , which M . Eeinan examined most carefully , are situated to the cast of tbe great cavern ; ancl although they present no outward appearance of grottos , he thinks that internally they present more interest than any other Phoenician tombs . He describes them as of three classes , and of various styles , and says that the rock is pierced with such a continuous series of caverns , and the Avails left standing between them are so thin , that it is wonderful the whole has not fallen in long since . Some of the caverns are rectangular , Avith a Avell-shaped entrance from nine to