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a dim recess beneath low and sheltering
arch a small white stone let into the wall
bears this inscriptions:
lane LESTER,
dear childe.
diel Oct, z. loSS.

The abbey contains no more suggestive,
touching and pathetic epitaph.
81, Pauls cathedral Is comparatively
modern, being less than three centuries
old, and though in the vortex of the city
stands isolated upon commanding height
SO that its symmetrical dome rises above
every horizon, the most striking feature in
the landscape. Towers and spires are well
enough, but for supreme architectural
effects within and without nothing is
equal to the dome. Ii elevates and en-
mobiles the structure of which it is q part
and seems to be a mediator between the
earth and the SKIES. OF course there are
domes and domes. One dome differeth
from another dome in glory. and the really
great domes of the world are few, but the
dome OF st. Paul's is one of them. TIE
incompatible symmetry and harmony of
the cathedral may be due to the fact that
the whole work WAS designed and finished
by one architect, and not piecemeal and in
fragments by many.
1t was built in the thirty-five wears be-
tween 1919 and ITO, wholly under the
supervision OF Sir Christopher Wren, with
but one master mason and one bishop of
the see for the entire period. Sir Christie
pher was very appropriately buried in the
crypt beneath the church which is the
proudest triumph Of his genius. with the
slngutarly fehcitous inscription: Isl
monumentum requlris, circumspce I" IF
you ask for his monument, behold 1t
around YOU"
The crypt is we'll lighted basement I'm.
der the entire building and serves as an
overflow from Westminster. In the exact
center, where piummet from the top of
the cross would strike the gilded coronet
upon his sarcophagus, Nelson rests Near
by, IN colossal tomb of porphyry, en-
closed in five collins, sleeps Wellington.
The hearse on which his remains were
borne through the streets OF London on
their last Journey Is kept in an adjoining
recess. Inc attendant said IL was made
from cannon captured by the field marshal
ana cost 10000. 1t is q clumsy sort of
tarnIshed car of Juggernaut and reminds
the spectator of the band wagon of an un-
successful circus run under a shed for pro-
lection from the weather. Upon the prin-
clpai floor of the cathedral is a statue of
DR.. Sam Johnson. in the scanty costume
OF a Roman gladiator; of John Howard.
the phiianthropist; of Hallam, the his
torian; of Gems, Packenham and Gibbs.
who fell at New Orleans, of Bishop Heber,
OF Sir John Moore. whose death was com
memorated by the familiar ode. Not a
drum was heard" and, latest of all,
stately bronze of Gen. Gordon. with q full
length recum bent etfigy of the dead war
rior and an inscription of lofty eulogy.
Standing by the unconscious dust of
Nelson and Wellington the mind irresisti-
bly, reverts TO the tomb of their great an
Trafalgar and the other at Waterloo.
The glittering cupola of the church of
the tnyalides covers a vast circular room
of polished white marble, whose altar is
bathed in light, falling through stained
glass like liquid gold. The silence, SIM
plicity and soiemnity are profound. No
obtrusive decoration nor ornament dis
tracts the attention from the contempia-
ton of the purpose TO which the temple is
consecrated.
In the center OF the floor sinks a deep
gulf, surrounded by q smooth balIustrade
breast high, which IS supported by twelve
columns, each with an angel holding a
wreath OF victory. In the alternate spaces
are grouped stands of captured battle
flags. Golden rays OF glory, like the points
on the card of compass, radiate from
crimson zone TO the circumference
Within is a circle of laurel and then
another in which is inscribed in Mosaic
the words ''RivoH. Pyramids. Marenso
Moscowa. Wagram. FriedIand. Jena
Au5terlitZ."
In the midst, upon a base o! green
marble. stands the shining crag of red
granite without name, date, or inscrip-
ton, wherein reposes the ciay, once ami
mated by the greatest brain and the most
potential will known among men. the
brain and will OF Napoleon Bonaparts.
JOHN J. ISGALLA