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A VISTON. 67 Looking round, I. found myself behind the reading-desk, and nearly facing a transept ; but by a turn of the head I could take in almost the whole length of the church, as it stretched away from the chancel to the western entrance : its long line of pillars and arches apparently descending as they retreated one beyond another, while the woodwork of the pews seemed running upward to meet them, in that far-off visionary point where all perspective lines converge. But oh that woodwork those dreadful pewlines how they grated on my feelings how they disturbed my temper I, fresh from the beautiful harmonies of the outer world I, as a student of Nature, so keenly alive to such influences It was a disappointment with aggravation too, for I had intended to worship that day in an Testhetically restored church: a church where, among other returns to the more refined style and better taste of our forefathers, carved oaken finials headed the divisions of the open sittings, and brought modern woodwork into accordance with the ancient architecture of the building.