BATH IN ITS RELATION TO ART, SCIENCE, 

 LITERATURE, AND EDUCATION. 



J. MuRCH, D.L. 



Art. 



TN modern times Bath has been chiefly known for its 

 healing waters, its fashionable society, its handsome 

 buildings, and its beautiful scenery. The fame has been 

 well deserved ; few cities have been more attractive in these 

 respects ; but it has had other higher claims not so fully 

 recognised. It has had a history both civic and national, 

 as when Edgar was crowned in its Abbey, when Round- 

 heads and Cavaliers fought in its streets, and when rulers 

 and statesmen began to flock to its springs. It has had 

 an intellectual character conducing to the refinement by 

 which it has been distinguished and connecting it with the 

 higher life of England. 



One of the first refining influences was that of Art, which 

 had considerable power so far back as the Roman period. 

 The term Art includes, amongst other things. Architecture,, 

 Painting, and Music. These will now be treated in order. 

 Their connection is not invariable, but the phase of mental 

 culture which has been favourable to either has been favour- 

 able to all. How rich Aquae Solis was in Architecture may 

 be inferred from the Roman bath lately discovered, and 

 the magnificent remains of the Temple of Minerva in the 



