Les innocents à l'étranger; . par une statue de six pieds et demi de hauteur. Chaque chose au sujet de l'église est le marbre, andall de la même carrière; il a été légué à l'archibish-Éric à cette fin il y a des siècles. Si notliant mais thélemère coûts de fabrication; encore que c'est cher - le projet de loi de pied six cent quatre-vingt-quatre millions de francs, jusqu'à présent (considérablement plus de cent millions de dollars,) et il estime qu'il faudra cent vingt ans yetto finir la cathédrale. Il semble complet, mais est loin d'être ainsi. Nous avons vu une nouvelle statue mise dans sa niche hier, à côté d'une qui h

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The innocents abroad; . by a statue six and ahalf feet high. Every thing about the church is marble, andall from the same quarry; it was bequeathed to the Archbish-opric for this purpose centuries ago. So notliing but themere workmanship costs; still that is expensive—the bill footsup six hundred and eighty-four millions of francs, thus far(considerably over a hundred millions of dollars, ) and it isestimated that it will take a hundred and twenty years yetto finish the cathedral. It looks complete, but is far frombeing so. We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday, alongside of one which had been standing these four hundredyears, they said. There are four staircases leading up to themain steeple, each of which cost a hundred thousand dollars, FATE OF THE AKCHITECT. 181 with the four hundred and eight statues which adorn them.Marco Compioni was the architect who designed the wonderfulstructure more than five hundred years ago, and it took himforty-six years to work out the plan and get it ready to hand. CATHEDEAL AT MILAN. over to the builders. He is dead now. The building wasbegun a little less than five hundred years ago, and the thirdgeneration hence will not see it completed. The building looks best by moonlight, because the olderportions of it being stained with age, contrast unpleasantly 182 ADIEU. witli the newer and whiter portions. It seems somewhat toobroad for its height, but may be familiarity with it might dissi-pate this impression. They say that the Cathedral of Milan is second only to St.Peters at Rome. I can not understand how it can be secondto any thing made by human hands. We bid it good-bye, now—possibly for all time. How surely, in some future day, when the memory of it shall have lost itsvividness, shall we half believe we have seen it in a wonderfuldream, but never with waking eyes! CHAPTER XIX. T~^0 you wis zo liaut can be? -L^ That was what the guide asked, when we were look-ing up at the bronze horses on the Arch of Peace. It meant, d

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