=The Mosaics.=--Excepting, perhaps, certain minor alterations which time and experience may suggest, the decoration and adornment of the Choir may now be reckoned as finished. The scheme was begun from the east, and continued westward; but there is no good reason for altering our plan, and we will continue to work from the west eastward. Of the five divisions of the main aisle, the chancel arch may be dismissed; the subject being a continuation of the western bay. There remain, then, the three bays, the reredos arch, and the apse; and we will take these in their order. The spandrels of the arcading treat of the Fall and Redemption; the triforium belt has the same subject as the "inverted saucers" of the vaulting; the clerestory windows on the north, Creation awaiting, or anticipating, or in any sense preparing the way for the Kingdom of Christ,--on the south, those who prepared places of worship; the pendentives, Angels, and inscriptions from the Psalms and Isaiah; the vaulting, the Story of Creation, continued in the triforium belt. Thus it will be seen that the arrangement of the interior, with its three stages, is fully recognised. Underneath the clerestory windows the inscriptions are from the Advent antiphons to the _Magnificat_; and these selections have most carefully omitted anything savouring of the invocation of saints. Below the angels with their outstretched arms in the pendentives the western sides of the great transverse arches have inscriptions from the _Benedicite_, and on their eastern from Romans i. 20. All of these texts or inscriptions are in Latin. The glass in the clerestory windows has been put in to give the best effect to the mosaics. A tabular statement will best present a general idea of Sir William Richmond's system taken as a whole. WESTERN BAY (with Chancel Arch). { Creation of Beasts, with the inscription, "Producat { terra animam viventem" (Gen. i. 24). The four _Roof_ { heraldic shields on the borders have the arms of the { four London Companies who are donors to the decorations. { N.: Merchant Taylors. S.: Mercers. E.: Fishmongers. { W.: Goldsmiths. Date, 1895. _Pendentives_: Angels, with inscriptions above from Psalm civ. N. S. { W.: Job. W.: Jacob's Ladder. { E.: Abraham at his tent E.: Moses receiving the _Clerestory_ { door at Mamre. Tables of the Law and the { The Three Heavenly "Pattern of the { Visitors and Sarah. Tabernacle" (Exodus { xxv. 9). _Inscription { "O Adonai, qui Moysi "O Adonai, et dux, et beneath { apparuisti, veni ad dominus Israel, veni ad window_ { redimendum nos." redimendum nos."