Retrospect of Domestic Literature — Antiquities. 
The following extract from the 
account of Magdalen College Chapel, 
(vol, i. p. 213.) will have an interest 
with every reader. 
“In this elegant chapel, the origi- 
nal style of building still predominates, 
but in the screen and pannelling, put 
up about the year 1740, which last 
covers the east wall, formerly of great 
beauty, we have those Grecian orna- 
ments which were generally adopted in 
the seventeenth and eighteenth cen. 
turies. The body is énlichtened by ten 
windows, painted with figures of the 
apostles, fathers, saints, &c. in elaro 
obscuro. The west window, containing 
the last judgment, was executed after 
a design of Christopher Schwarts, ort- 
einally prepared for the wife of Wil- 
liam, Duke of Bavaria, as appears by 
a print engraved by one of the Sade- 
jers. After being damaged by the high 
wind in 1703, it was restored in 1794 
by Egginton to its pristine beauty. 
Eight of the Jateral windows were re- 
moved from the ante-chapel in 1741, 
and two new omes next the altar added 
by the younger Price, who died in 
i765. The eight fine windows now in 
the ante-chapel, put up in 1797, were 
executed from designs of ,Egginton, 
and are filled with the college arms, 
scriplure history, and portraits of St. 
John. Baptist, ‘St. Mary Maedalen, 
Kings Henry Il, and VI. the founders 
of Magdalen, New College, Corpus 
Christi, and Cardinal Colicze, now 
Christ Charch, the two last of whom 
had been fellows of this college, admi- 
rably drawn and coloured, 
‘* The present altar was copeeusedl 
an 1749, and corresponds with the mo- 
dern alterations in the interior of this 
chapel. The altar-piece by Fuller, 
representing the last judgment, has not 
been fortunate in attracting universal 
admiration. As an imitation of Mi- 
chael Angelo, it falls far short of the 
sublime, although sometimes wild 
imagination of that great artist ; nor 
is the colouring harmouious, or natu- 
ra!. Some of. “the firures, ‘however, 
are correctly drawn ; and he has at least 
imitated the ‘temper of Michael Ancelo 
with success, in introducing, among 
the damned, the portrait of an hostler 
at the Grey hound Inn, near thecollege 
who had offended htm ; ; Mr. Addi ison 
has honoured Fuller’s pamting wiih an 
elegant Latin poem, in which he seems 
to praise ihe genius that ought to have 
preduininate edin such a subject, This 
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painting was placed here about the 
year 1680. 
‘* Underneath is a noble picture of» 
our Saviour bearing his cross, which 
was long supposed to have been painted 
by Guido, or in the opinion of Mr. 
Byres of Rome, a very competent 
judge, by Tu: lovico Caracci; but it is 
now given to Moralez, styled 12} a 
vino, a Spanish artist who flourished 
in the sixteenth century, and whose 
works are rare in this country. Sher- 
win’s beautiful print from it is well 
known, and Eggintun made a copy for 
the east window of the church of 
Wanstead in Essex. ‘It remains ta be 
added that this picture was brought 
from Vigo in 1702, by the last Duke 
of Ormond, gud atlerwar ds fell inte 
the hands of William Freeman, Esq. 
of Hamels in Hertfordshire, who gave 
it to the College. He gave also a “new 
organ, and was in other respects a cous 
siderable benefactor.”? 
Christ Church occupies a larger 
portion of letter press than any col- 
lege in the second volume. The ac- 
count opens with the following reflec- 
tions on Wolsey’s biography. 
«© An impartial life of Cardinal Wol. 
sey, who was, in tts first stage at least, 
the undoubted founder of this snagni- 
ficent establishment, is still a desider- 
atum in English biography. Caven- 
dish is minute and inter esting in what 
he relates of the Cardinal’s domestic 
history, but defective in dates. and 
arrangement, and not altegether free 
from ‘partiality, which, however, in ong 
so near to the Cardinal may perhaps be 
pardoned. Fiddes is elaborate, argu- 
mentative, and, “upon the whole, use. 
ful as an extensive collector of facts 
and authorities; but he wrote for a 
special purpose, and. has attempted, 
what no man can efiect, a pertrait of 
his hero free from ihose vices and 
failings of which it is impossible to 
acquit him, Grove, with all the aid 
of Cavendish, Fiddes. and even Shaks- 
peare, whose drama he regularly pres- 
ses into the service, is a heavy and 
injudicious compiler, although he gives 
$0 much of the Cardinal's contempo- 
raries, that his velumes may be con- 
sulted with advantage as a series of 
general annals of the time. But Ca- 
vendish, on whomall who havewrittea 
on the actionsof Wolsey, especially our 
modern histortans,have resied, hasbeen 
the mnocent cause of some of their 
principal errors. Cavendish’s work 
s remained 
