The Pulaskian., 1920-08-26
salisbury Cathedral From the Nearby Lake

earth on which they had to build was too marshy to bear the solidity usually connected with tower structures, and they planned and worked with extreme caution. Giving to the tower walls the ightest possible construction, banding the parts fngeniously, and even leaving within the building the wooden frame work to serve as an additional STD port, the builders worked daringly on i; but when they approached the spire construction they had not tte temerity to give it thickness of more than two feet at the base, and of nine inches from little above the base to the top. most pinnacle.
 Within and without they added fly. ing buttresses. Even then the spire began to lapse from the perpendicular, and tEe worst was feared wEen a devil ation of two feet occurred; but since the careful examination made by Sir Christopher Wren no further signs of insecurity have appeared.
 k What Salisbury Cathedral owes to the magic grace of it's tower and spire it is easier to realize than to express. The whole building was transformed by the architectural daring which had enough poetic insight to picture what could be done by capping an already beautiful, but somewhat featurelcss structure, by an exquisitely propor- toned tower, surmounted by a slender and soaring spire, the highest in Eng land. Though constructed half cen tury later than the body of the cathe- dral, the tower and spire-so refined early builders-were in harmony with the whole construction, in spite of their greater display of elaborate and decorative work
 With marvellous grace this triumph of early English art blends nave, choir, and transepts, tower and spire, in an architectural unity that has no com peer within our isles. Here we have church of one period and of one de- sign not, as in most eathedraIs, an cpitome in stone of English history from the Norman on through the ear ly English and decorated periods to the perpendicular.
 Some Human Records.
 Seen with effect from the height of Salisbury tower is a pleasant pastoral country, watered by several streams. broken by some low stretches of downs and in places iuxuriantly wooded; and here and there are places sacred in the story of our literature. Within the cathedral is q bust with tablet in | memory of Richard Jefferies, born at 1 Coate, In Wiltshire.
 Less than two miles from Salisbury is Bemerton, village containing the 1 flint built parsonage where George Herbert wrote some of the poems in "The Temple" Within the altar rails of the little church Is a modest tablet with the simple inscription, "G H, 1633,' the only memorial In Wiltshire to "the sweetest singer that ever sang Gods praise"
 WithiH the cathedral, on the north l side of the altar. lies the body of the sister whom Sir Philip Sidney loved to visit at Wilton, the ancestral estate of the Pembroke family, not much more tran mile to the west of Bemerton It was at Wilton that Sidney wrote parts of his Arcadia" to please. as he pnt it, "his dear lady and sister I the countess Of Pembroke"
 Interesting, 100. are the cloisters not only for the beauty of their win, l dow tracery. but for the memories thev enshrine. for among those who lie a, rest in this sanctuary inclosed by the 'aoisters are people whose names Fave n place of honor in the modern re.s 1 oizis of ths Wiltshire minister.