Gothic Architecture.*

down , it is t ° be done only under the cognisance of the said Board , and with our approval iu the requisite cases . 6 . If in digging , or on other occasions , relics of antiquity should be discovered , our public functionaries are to take care that they be carefully preserved ; and notice of then- discovery is to be immediately sent to the Board of "Works , or to the Managers of the Museum . 1 . All public functionaries are enjoined carefully to watch over the preservation of all the monuments recorded in the aforesaid catalogues , for which purpose the latter are to be pi-inted aud

communicated to them . ( Signed ) Louis . Darmstadt , January 22 nd , 1818 . ( To be continued . )

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

BT BRO . UEORCH * MARKKA !! TWEDDEI I I I . Author of " Slutlcspm . Ids Times and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham , " " The People ' s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage , " " The Visitor ' s Handbook to Redcar , Coatham , and Saltburn b y the Sea , " " The History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , " etc ., etc .

TYR . OSGOOD , addressing the New York Genealogical ancl Biographical Society , in * - * April , 1878 , says of that metropolis : — " The old city has almost wholly passed away within this generation . The buildings most associated with life , our homes ancl churches , have disappeared , being crowded out by the pressure of business . Hardly a man lives where he lived thirty years ago , and few children of mature years live where their fathers lived before them . There is but one church of any great importance

( old St . Paul ' s ) that is a century old , ancl our most conspicuous chinches have sprung up within a few years . The old cit y has gone , ancl -the new city has been built too much in a hurry to admit of its being of a sufficiently memorial character . Our new wealth has not been associated with hi gh culture or artistic taste ; ancl costl y houses have been built by the acre , without much historical significance or [ esthetic ' dignity . With the rise of rents and the increase of luxury , the great middling class , which is so essential to the best interest ancl character of a community , has suffered , and , to a great extent , been driven away . In this way , and in many other ways , the city has lost

ws expected harvest of culture and numbers , and its face does not tell its history . What a pity it is that there is so little that meets the eye to remind us of the men who nave made their mark in the commiuiity , ancl of the nations that have built up the city in its greatness . Those of us who have paid our public tributes to Cooper , Irvinjj , Verplanck , Bethune , and other noted men , of our own citizens , and to the masters of European culture and civilization , would especially like to see their names , and , if possible their

, faces , in our public places . England has Shakspere in bronze here ; Aew England has "Webster and ih-anklin ; Germany has Schiller and Humboldt ; prance has Lafayette ; Italy is to have Mazzini ancl Victor Emmanuel . When will ¦ Qolland have Eembrandt?—Eenibrandt , the father of the new humanity in art ; the democrat of light , shade , colour , and form ; who put upon canvas what Dickens put into print , and who with his pencil affirmed the Protestant ri ght of private judgment , and brought out the from the

man pomp of courts and the conclaves of priesthoods mto open clay . Sons of Holland , make room for your Eembrandt here ! Something > as been done ancl is doing to meet this deficiency in our great Park . Some of our