. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. II-. ^fefe ! ^l:S:? ^I^f. 7%i? Church at St. Jean de Losne. the Saone. The colour of its warm old brick-work was a ereatcomfort to the eyes after the colder stone-work on the upperriver, and it was a pleasure after the severe modern renaissancearchitecture at Pontailler and Port-sur-Saone to come upon the A Summer Voyage. 167 fanciful and elegant renaissance of a more inventive age, eventhough out of place, as it was patched upon a sort of gothic. The west end of the church at St. Jean de Losne is indeed sadpat
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. II-. ^fefe ! ^l:S:? ^I^f. 7%i? Church at St. Jean de Losne. the Saone. The colour of its warm old brick-work was a ereatcomfort to the eyes after the colder stone-work on the upperriver, and it was a pleasure after the severe modern renaissancearchitecture at Pontailler and Port-sur-Saone to come upon the A Summer Voyage. 167 fanciful and elegant renaissance of a more inventive age, eventhough out of place, as it was patched upon a sort of gothic. The west end of the church at St. Jean de Losne is indeed sadpatchwork and yet pathetically interesting. The gothic hasbeen removed about the entrance to make way for a renaissancedoorway so exquisitely beautiful as to be utterly out of harmonywith the general rudeness of the edifice, a work of accomplishedart that ought to have been taken when new and put safely awayin the hall of some museum. Too delicate even to be exposedto the common vicissitudes of the weather, far too delicate to beentrusted to the vandalism of ignorant and careless men, it hasmet its inevitab
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