The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-19
The Cathedral Of Bourg9s,

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Above the porches, which give the
measure of its width, the front rears it.
self, piles itself on great scale, car
ried up by galleries, arches, windows,
sculptures, and supported by the extra
ordinary thick buttresses of which
have spoken, and which, though they
cmbrilish it with deep shadows thrown
sidewise, do not improve its style. The
portals, especially the middle one, are
extremely interesting; they are covered
with curious early sculptures. The
middle one, however, | must describe
alone, 1t has no less than six rows OF
ligures--thc others have four--some OF
which, notably the upper one, are still
in their places The arch at the top has
three tiers of elaborate imagery. The
upper of these is divided by the figure
of Christ in judgment, of great size,
stiff and terrible, with outStrclched
arms On either side of him are
ranged three or tour angels, with the
instruments of the Passion. Beneath
him, in the second frieze, stands the
angel of justice with his scales; and
on either side of him is the vision of the
last Judgment, The good prepare with
infinite Utilization and complacency to
ascend to the skies; while the bad are
dragged, pushed, hurled, stuffed,
crammed into pits and caldrons of fire.
There is charming detail in this sec
ton. Beside the angel on the right,
where the wicked are the prey of de-
mons. stands II little female figure,
that of child who, with hands meek.
ly folded and head gently raised, waits
for the stern angel to decide upon her
fate. In this fate, however dreadful
bic devil also takes keen interest; he
seems on the point of appropriating the
tender creature; he has face like q
goat and an enormous hooked nose. But
the angel gently lays hand upon the
shoulder of the little girl-thc moment
is full of dignity-as if to say, "No
she belongs to the other side. The
frieze below represents the general res.
direction, with the good and the
wicked emerging from their sepulChreS.
Nothing can be more quaint and charm.
ing than the difference shown in thcil
way of responding to the final trump.
The good get out OF their tombs with .
certain modest gayety, an alacrity tenn.
pered by respect; one of them kneels &c
pray as soon as he has disinterred him
self. You may know the wicked, or
the other hand, by their extreme shy
ness; they crawl out slowly and fear.
fully; they hang back and seem to say,
"Oh, dcar! These elaborate sculp.
lures, full of ingenious intention and OF
the reality of early faith, are in re.
markable state of preservation; they
bear no superficial signs of restoration
and appear scarcely to have suffered
from the centuries. They are delight.
fully expressive; the artist had the adj.
vantage of knowing exactly the effect
he wished to produce The interior OF
the cathedral has great simplicity and
majesty, and above all tremendous
height. The nave is extraordinary in
this respect; it dwarfs everything else
know. | should add. however, that
am, in architecture, always of The
opinion of the last speaker. Any grea
building seems to me, while look at it
the ultimate expression. At any rate
during the hour that | sat gazing alons
the high vista OF Bodrges, the interio
of the great vessel correspondent to my
vision of the evening before. There il
tranquil largeneSs, a kind of inhni
tude, about such an ediiice; it soothe
and puriies the spirit ii illumnales tn
mind. There are two aisleS on eithe
side in addition to the navc-tye in al
and, as have said, there are no tran
septs; an omission which lengthens tn
vista, SO that from my place near tn
door the central jcweled window in tn
depths of the perpendicular choi
seemed mile or two away. The sec
ond, or outward, of each pair of aisle
is too low, and the first too high; witt
out this inequality the nave would az
pear to take an even more prodigiou
flight The double aisles pass all tn
way round the choir, the windows q
which are inordinately rich in magniii
cent old glass, have seen glass q
fine in other churches; but | think
have never seen 50 much of il at once
--AtidHtic
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