Miscellany [pp. 421-424]

Miscellany.
the second dreams how he shall arise
and work.
The dreamers among men select as
mates the workers among women, or
are (perhaps more often) selected by
them, and vice versa. It is the old
eternal law of nature-the duality
pervading all things, types, and
classes, man and woman, positive and
negative, matter and spirit, reason and
faith; and, in spite of the gentle scorn
which dreamers cherish for workers,
and the undisguised contempt with
which workers regard dreamers, so
they will continue to exist side by side
until the day comes when the worker
can work no more, and the dreamer
shall have dreamed or the last time.
MISCELLANY.
The Old Church at Chelsea, England.M31r. H. H. Burnell read a paper before
the British Archeological Society lately,
on the Old Church of Chelsea- The
chancel, with the chauntries north and
south of it, are the only portions of ancient work left. The north chauntry,
called the Manor Chauntry, once contained the monuments of the Brays,
now in very imperfect condition, having been destroyed or removed to make
space for those of the Gervoise family.
There remains, however, an ancient
brass in the floor. Of the south, or
3More Chauntry, he stated that the monuniuent of Sir Thomas More was removed from it to the chancel; and the
chliauntry had been occupied by the
monuments of the Georges family, now
also removed, displaced, and destroyed.
Mr. Blunt showed that, notwithstanding
the current contrary opinion, founded
on Aubrey's assertion, the More monument is the original one for which Sir
Thomas 3More himself dictated the epitaph. Mr. Burnell, the architect of the
improvements effected subsequently to
1857, spoke positively as to the non-existence of a crypt which conjecture had
placed under the More Chauntry. The
foundation of the west end of the
church before it was enlarged in 1666,
he found west of Lord Dacre's tomb.
On the north side of the chancel an
aumbrey, and on the south a piscina
was tound, coeval with the chancel
(early fourteenth century). The arch
between the More Chauntry and the
chancel is a specimen of Italian workmanship-dated 1528-a date confirmed by the objects represented in the
carved ornaments, those objects being
connected with the Roman Catholic
ritual. It is a remarkably early instance
of the use of Italian architecture in this
country. In a window of this chapel,
then partly bricked up, was found in
the brickwork in 1858 remains of the
stained glass which once filled it. The
body of Sir Thomas More was, according to Aubrey, interred in this chapel,
and his head, after an exposure of fourteen days, testifying to the passers-by on
London Bridge the remorseless cruelty
of Henry VIII. and his barbarous insensibility, was consigned to a vault in St.
Dunstan's Church, Canterbury. It was
seen and drawn in that vault in 1715.Reader.
New Artesian Well in Paris.-A third
artesian well is now being added to the
two which Paris has already. Already
the perforation has reached the depth
of eighty-two metres, being twenty
metres below the sea-level. Befbre
reaching this point, considerable difficulties had to be overcome in the shape
of intermediate sheets of water, which
form a series of subterranean lakes.
The first of these was kept in its bed
by means of a strong iron tube driven
perpendicularly through it; that which
followed received wooden palings, and
the subsequent stratum being clay, the
masonry was continued without difficulty to about five metres above sealevel. But at this point a layer of
agglomerations was reached,'which let
a great deal of water escape. It thus
became necessary to have again recourse
to pumps: those employed were in the
aggregate of 20 horse-power. Owing
to the bad nature of this stratum, it
was resolved to protect the perforation
by a revetement of extraordinary thickness; and in order that the well might
preserve its diameter of two metres notwithstanding, the upper part has had
to be widened in proportion, so as to
421