. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Macon, St. Laurent. is astonishing what a destruction of old churches there has in the Middle Ages had fourteen, it has now three if youinclude the Protestant chapel ; Macon had twelve, it has nowthree if you include the poor remnant of the cathedral. With thisexception the Macon churches are modern, an unmeaning structureopposite the hospital, and a Romanesque edifice with twin spiresnot far from the river. The exterior seems a little meagre, itappears to lack the solid substance of the true Romane
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Macon, St. Laurent. is astonishing what a destruction of old churches there has in the Middle Ages had fourteen, it has now three if youinclude the Protestant chapel ; Macon had twelve, it has nowthree if you include the poor remnant of the cathedral. With thisexception the Macon churches are modern, an unmeaning structureopposite the hospital, and a Romanesque edifice with twin spiresnot far from the river. The exterior seems a little meagre, itappears to lack the solid substance of the true Romanesque, butthe interior is effective and interesting, with the usual round apse A Summer Voyage. 283 and chapels of the style. There has been a determined attemptat mural painting in this church, with good effect in parts but alack of ensemble. Mural painting is always a dangerous ex-periment. It ought to be strictly subordinated to the architec-ture and carried through in one consistent spirit. If manydifferent artists are employed the church becomes a sort of. Macon, Towers of St. Vincent and Prefecture. picture exhibition, with the inconvenience that the pictures arenot afterwards dispersed. I did not speak of the picture gallery at Chalon, and passthis at Macon for the same reason. These little provincialcollections contain a few good examples of modern painting,generally by men unknown in England, but they are lost amidsta quantity of mediocre or bad work. The scientific and archaeo-logical museums, and the public libraries, are not open to this 284 The Sadne. objection, as in them we find interest for the mind withoutoffence to the eye. Of course there is an imposing portrait ofLamartine in the gallery here. The prettiest modern building in Macon is the Prefecture. Itis in that recent French Renaissance style which gives great im-portance and elegance to the roof, and as the Prefecture issituated on a steep which has been planted with massive treesand adorned with terraces
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