Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . entedwith tinsel, as the dogmas are over-laden with learned glosses. It is in-tended to dazzle and surprise by itsnewness and glitter; and it does in-deed dazzle the merely curious, butdoes not bear the serious examinationof the cognoscente or the earnestinquirer. The Church has soughtafter new dogmas to set them abovethe cross on her domes and spires;architecture has obediently followedher lead, and the result is the dog-matic, Jesuitical style of building that we see! Old Catholics, either in art or religion,would never have built so. We seem to perceive t
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . entedwith tinsel, as the dogmas are over-laden with learned glosses. It is in-tended to dazzle and surprise by itsnewness and glitter; and it does in-deed dazzle the merely curious, butdoes not bear the serious examinationof the cognoscente or the earnestinquirer. The Church has soughtafter new dogmas to set them abovethe cross on her domes and spires;architecture has obediently followedher lead, and the result is the dog-matic, Jesuitical style of building that we see! Old Catholics, either in art or religion,would never have built so. We seem to perceive the odour of decay and ruin,—a chillair from bygone times, amidst these shining rows of pillars. The poor ignorant peoplestand and wonder. This is a national monument they are told. It is rather theofficial commemoration of something which is rapidly becoming extinct. Thus much I had written in my note-book. But on coming home I found the wholething expressed much better, more wittily, and above all, more shortly, in Louis Ehlerts. JiROCCOLI-SELLERS IN TRASTEVERE.
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