taste.

It may be supposed that we are ascribing too much importance to the
department of the mediæval mania under examination; but, for our part,
we 'scorn nothing' that presents a bar, however slight, to the
progress of civilisation and refinement. Pre-Raphaelitism is only one
form of a degradation of taste which appears to keep pace with the
utilities of the time, and we shall never be slow in lending our aid
to cleanse the temple of its desecrators. L.R.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See the _Moyen Age_ of Du Sommirard.

[2] _Pre-Raphaelitism._ By the author of _Modern Painters_.




A LEGEND OF AMEN-CORNER.


About the time that every prince in Europe was sending a special
embassy to London, to congratulate James I. on his book against
witchcraft, which none of them ever professed to have read, a strange
occurrence happened in an ancient house, situated in the Amen-Corner
of Paternoster Row. Like most of the houses of old London, its lower
half was brick, and its upper, English oak. It had been built in the
time of the first Tudor, but, being still a substantial tenement, was
purchased some ten years before the period of this narrative, by two