people
exalt that of the ear in music. Do they really suppose the eye is a
less noble bodily organ than the ear,--that the organ by which
nearly all our knowledge of the external universe is communicated to
us, and through which we learn the wonder and the love, can be less
exalted in its own peculiar delight than the ear, which is only for
the communication of the ideas which owe to the eye their very
existence? I do not mean to depreciate music: let it be loved and
reverenced as is just; only let the delight of the eye be reverenced
more. The great power of music over the multitude is owing, not to
its being less but _more_ sensual than color; it is so distinctly
and so richly sensual, that it can be idly enjoyed; it is exactly at
the point where the lower and higher pleasures of the senses and
imagination are balanced; so that pure and great minds love it for
its invention and emotion, and lower minds for its sensual power.

[54] Vol. II. Appendix 7.

[55] Louis the Eleventh. "In the month of March, 1481, Louis was
seized with a fit of apoplexy at _St. Benoit-du-lac-mort_, near
Chinon. He remained speechless and bereft of reason three days; and
then but very imperfectly restored, he languished in a miserable
state.... To cure him," says a contemporary historian, "wonderful
and terrible medicines were compounded. It was reported among the
people that his physicians opened the veins of little children, and
made him drink their blood, to correct the poorness of his
own."--_Bussey's History of France._ London, 1850.

[56] Observe, I call Gothic "Christian" architecture, not
"ecclesiastical." There is a wide difference. I believe it is the
only architecture which Christian men should build, but not at all
an architecture necessarily connected with the services of their
church.

[57] Mr. Hope's Church, in Margaret Street, Portland Place. I do not
altogether like the arrangements of color in the brickwork; but
these will hardly attract the eye, where so much has been already
done with precious and beautiful marble, and is yet to be done in
fresco. Much will depend, however, upon the coloring of this latter
portion. I wish that either Holman Hunt or Millais could be
prevailed upon to do at least some of these smaller frescoes.

APPENDIX.

1. ARCHITECT OF THE DUCAL PALACE.