This idea had, in the last century, so far gained ground, that the Christian emblem was not often to be seen, at all events in the interior of churches, and that those who did use it in their churches or churchyards were likely to incur a suspicion of Popery.And who does not remember ligths and sounds some of the other special adjuncts of an old fashioned church, as it had been handed down little altered from the time of our great grandfathers? There were the half obliterated escutcheons, scarcely less dismal in aspect than the coffin plates with which the columns of the Welsh churches were so profusely decorated.' If, however, the reader cannot altogether admire the picture thus summoned before his eyes, he will at all events agree with the words that follow 'But the greatest ornament is a choir well filled with devout communicants may serve as another representative example of the kind of 'altar piece' which commended itself to eighteenth century Churchmen.One of the ligths and sounds very few instances where a painting of the kind is spoken of, was connected with a very discreditable scandal.The Dean and Chapter indulged her in the whim, and she was allowed to keep a kind of aviary in her private seat.It had not been ligths and sounds whitewashed.Many of these, however, would by no means approve themselves to a more cultivated taste than that which then prevailed.the taste to some ligths and sounds degree revived.The painting is deficient in brilliancy, and some of the shadows are nearly opaque yet these defects may almost be overlooked in ligths and sounds the excellence of its composition, and in its immense superiority over all other works executed between the commencement of the eighteenth century and the revival of the mosaic system.But 'there is a charming tradition that he stood by, complacently watching the workmen as they hewed smooth the fine old sculptures over Solomon's porch, which the nineteenth century vainly seeks to recall to their places.