of the Continent, delighting “ to walk the studious cloisters 
pale,” and loving to dwell on other glories of abbey and 
minster. He was familiar with the sculpture and pictures 
of the finest galleries in Southern and Central Europe. He 
revelled in the works of the old masters, and was an authority 
on almost every branch of art. 
On his private life we do not venture long to dwell. His 
was a life full of trouble. He seemed to live in an inverted 
order, those who might have been expected to succeed him 
were gone before him. Bereft of wife and children, he bestowed 
his sympathy on other members of his family, for whom he 
ever showed the tenderest regard. Is it not by affliction’s 
chastening hand, and by the wholesome discipline of self- 
sacrifice that life is perfected ? Notwithstanding his many 
poignant troubles he retained almost to the last much of his 
buoyant humour, his brilliant wit, and his powers of fascinating 
conversation. Except when repelling some unjustifiable 
attack on himself or his art, or on religion, his wit was never 
known to wound. He was the life and soul of our excursions, 
and his company was greatly appreciated by the friends who 
accompanied him on his Continental journeys. Intelligent 
travel and the love of nature in her wilder as well as in her 
calmer moods, were contributory factors in that culture he 
ever displayed. Right well did he understand, and most 
impressibly could he interpret, the potent power of the 
picturesque. Of his art, his mission, and his work he had 
a very high view, and whatever he undertook was the best 
of its kind, faultless in taste, graceful in outline, substantial 
in construction, and true to the principles he so strenuously 
maintained. 
After a full and chequered career, now in the sunshine of 
fame now touched with the dark and heavy wing of sorrow, 
in the plenitude of his powers, in the midst of great under- 
takings — 
“ Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, 
And slits the thin-spun life ; ” 
and the brain, once so active and fertile in conception and 
design, is still, and the right hand, so wonderfully clever in 
executive skill, has lost its cunning. Seek you his monument ? 
It is to be found in enduring stone and monumental marble, 
in a stately mansion here, a school, or bank, or hospital there. 
It is to be found in many a noble ecclesiastical building, for 
it was to church architecture that he gave the best of his 
cultivated powers. Witness among others the churches of 
