he seems to have merged
the three, and in the corresponding part of the upper order to have
omitted anything like a frieze.

[76] _Builder_, January 2, 1892.

[77] "Parentalia," p. 298.

[78] Ibid., p. 352.

[79] Ibid., p. 301, with diagram, showing how a wall does the same as
buttresses.

[80] Mr. Wightwick, quoted in Longman, p. 188.

[81] E.A. Freeman, _Fortnightly Review_, October, 1872, p. 380.

[82] Yet he preferred the Early English windows of Salisbury to any
later.

[83] "Who among the crowds that gaze upon the building ever pause to
admire the flowerwork of St. Paul's?... It is no part of it. It is an
ugly excrescence. We always conceive the building without it, and
should be happier if our conception were not disturbed by its
presence. It makes the rest of the architecture look poverty-stricken,
instead of sublime; and yet it is never enjoyed itself" ("Seven
Lamps," iv. 13). All I can say is I have enjoyed studying it. Mr.
Edward Bell also sends me the following: "We have a familiar instance
in the flower-work of St. Paul's, which is probably, in the abstract,
as perfect flower sculpture as could be produced at the time; and
which is just as rational an ornament of the building as so many
valuable Van Huysums, framed and glazed, and hung up over each window"
("Stones of Venice," I., xxi. 3). In my humble opinion this criticism
is overdrawn; and, after all, Mr. Ruskin commends the sculpture.

[84] Dugdale, p. 191; but some authorities give double that of St.
Paul's.

[85] Fortunately for effect the technical distances are slightly
exceeded. The "Parentalia" says "alternately," but the central is
wider than the remaining four, which are similar.

[86] The objection that the exterior of the West Front does not
correspond with the interior is not accurate. The west end inside
contains (_a_) the lower stage, with the great arch and doorway, and
(_b_) the upper, with the window.

[87] "Parentalia," p. 292.

[88] A curious instance of how words change their meaning, (_a_) A
building--domus; (_b_) the most important building; (_c_) the most
important and striking feature of the building. As everybody now
speaks of the "Dome" of St. Paul's, I have adopted the word instead of
"Cupola."

[89] "Tholobate" means what its derivation implies, "the base of a
cupola." Why should this part be called the attic? How can an attic,
properly speaking, have a gigantic hemisphere above it?

CHAPTER VI.