But though so often the white nave and decorated choir have been crowded with the stately solemnities

of honour for the dead, more cheerful recollections. are ever present. The Prince of Wales, and others of Queen Victoria's children, have been married here, and the huzzas of the Eton boys have been more

often heard cheering a bride, than has the silence of the waiting crowd given signal of mourning in the grassy ward without. On such a day of rejoicing Windsor is indeed spirit-stirring. The immense royal standard floats in gold, blue, and crimson from the Keep. Carriages, with servants in scarlet, carry guests gay in uniform and silks, the melody of chiming bells is heard from belfries of tower and town, the houses of the citizens are bright with flags, and as the Sovereign, with outriders and grey horses, is driven past, the guards present arms, and, escorted by the plumed cavalry wearing gleaming cuirasses, she is cheered to the echo; for the enthusiasm shown to bride and bridegroom arises because they are the children of the Queen the people love.

In the chapel her private "closet" juts out high on the north wall, above the side of the altar. It is shaped like the projecting latticed windows of the streets of Cairo (pp. 67, 72). There is now no covered way to it from the Upper Ward. It communicates with the deanery, an ancient habitation, which through inquisitorial little windows, commands two of the "walks" of a remarkable cloister.

This should be seen, as also an unpretentious inner cloister (p. 75), placed immediately above the steep descent called the "Hundred Steps," which leads down from the Castle to the town (p. 73). In the main cloister, note on the wall a remarkable head in fresco walled in among less interesting tablets. It is a very

early painting of one of the English kings. He is crowned with the simple coronet known of old as the crown, which was not then arched over. Nowadays the closing of the coronet" with the "arch of empire denotes sovereignty. But the Henrys and Edwards were content with the lilied or trefoiled golden circlet, a more elegant ornament than the becushioned and top-heavy modern crown of heraldry.

FETTER-LOCK, OR HORSE-SHOE, CLOISTER AT THE WEST END OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL (p. 77).

Filling up the space between St. George's Chapel and the Bell Tower, whose lofty roof is seen from within the gateway, with a flat wall facing the interior of the ward, are the picturesque houses, built in brick and timber, of the petty canons. Such examples, of what the Germans call "Riegel-bau," and we "noggin-work"-the timber frame showing, and the spaces between being filled in with brick, or other material-are now more common on the Rhine, and in Cheshire, than elsewhere. But the style was frequently used in combination with more solid structure. For instance, in the beautiful and very remarkable Castle of Elze, not far from Coblentz and the Moselle, the upper storeys of the fortalice are of timber work, while the lower portion is of very heavy masonry. Down to the time of the Renaissance in Germany, timber facing was associated with masonry. In the stately country-house built