it foundation of that edifice whereon she labors day by day, and with augmenting strokes.

In the middle of the thirteenth century, whence its chief edifices date, it was the centre of one of the largest and busiest towns in Europe, and a population of 200,000 weavers was apt to be uproarious in it.

Occasionally the front of a palace received the rays on its heavy cornices and labored columns, the gloomy stillness of the interior of the edifice furnishing, in every such instance, a striking contrast to the richness and architectural beauty without.

To what reflections the sight of this vast edifice leads!

Yes, think of being in at the making of a new world, seeing visions develop into reality as, stone by stone, an edifice rises!