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nated ‘Cinque Cento”—such as that with which Raphael adorned 
the Loggia of the Vatican, and with which Giulio Romano em- 
bellished the castle of St. Angelo—that which Leonardo da Vinci 
practised, and Michael Angelo approved. The work must be 
considered to be that of the late Commendatore Canina, than 
whom no greater authority upon Italian art ever touched pencil, 
for although Signor Montiroli, as his successor, has superintended 
the minutiz of the work, the general scheme was laid down by 
the Venerable Commendatore, who, within the last few weeks of 
his life, journeyed from Rome to Alnwick, to plant—as it were 
with his own hands—this off-shoot of classic art. 
On entering the keep, from the inner ward, the members found 
themselves in an entrance-hall at the foot of a grand staircase 
which was occupied by the scaffolding of the plasterers. The 
staircase, fourteen feet wide, wrought of Rothbury stone, termi- 
nates in a vestibule, whence a corridor gives access to the state 
apartments, and whence an ante-room affords an approach to the 
library. It was to this room that the members of the Clubs 
were first conducted. They found the richly carved, coloured 
and gilded ceilings completed, but the remaining portions of the 
decorations unfinished, and temporary book-cases in possession 
of the centre of the room. They could see, however, the dimen- 
sions of the chamber, and the massiveness of the masonry, in 
which is formed a winding stair to lead to an upper-tier of book- 
cases. Returning to the ante-chamber, the party was then shown 
the suite of apartments comprising saloon, drawing-room, and 
dining-room. The ceilings of these rooms were also completed, 
as well as the inlaid dados, and the sculpturesque marble chimney 
pieces, from Rome, were also in their places. The ceilings of the 
saloon and drawing-room, resemble that of the library, in so far as 
they are panelled, and coffered, and further ornamented with 
- foliated wood carvings, which are enriched with colours and 
gold; but the dining-room ceiling differs from them in retaining 
the natural colour of the pine and cedar woods, of which it is 
wrought—an arrangement which, while it displays the beautiful 
carvings to advantage, affords an agreeable diversity to the eye. 
The chapel was also visited and admired. It will be remembered 
