fitful light, and the night breeze communicates to the detached branches a sort of temporary, life-like movement. It is then that airy visions are said to haunt the place, and not unfrequently cross the path of the intruder:-- For oft on the mouldering Keep by night <g>Earl Roger</g> takes his stand, With the sword that shone at Hastings’ fight, Firm grasped in his red right hand! Then he calls his spectre-knights by name-- To their spectre-Chief they fly When each gauntlet rears its bristling spears, To their Norman battle-cry! But beware--beware to wander there, At the mass of the blessed Yule When, with spectral forms in glittering arms, That haunted Keep is full! ’Tis then they shout, as they shouted once When our Saxon standard fell; And the Norman blade its carnage stayed At the sound of <g>Harold’s</g> knell! etc.--MS Of the four original towers, planted at regular intervals around the enclosed space beyond the Keep, all, with the exception of the barbican already mentioned, appear to have been the work of the period in question. They are of the same form as that of the outer gateway, and have the facilities of free intercourse by means of a connecting walk along the ramparts. They were all dismantled during the last siege; but in the ruins which still remain, the characteristic style of Earl Richard is apparent. Two sally-ports of the same date, and at opposite sides of the enclosure, may still be seen in a state of preservation.--See ‘History of the Castle.’--50. The next embellishment bestowed upon the Castle of Arundel was the <g>great Hall</g>. It was erected by Richard, grandson of the Richard Fitzalan whose taste and munificence had contributed the addition already mentioned. [Illustration] It was in the style of Edward the Third; with an entrance from the court, through a deep pointed doorway, under a plain projecting porch. The hall itself was entirely demolished during the Parliamentary siege referred to in these pages; but the remaining doorway continued to indicate the splendour of the original design, till its place was occupied by a still more striking and elaborate structure--<g>the Barons’ Hall</g> of the present century. The last addition to this baronial seat of so many illustrious families, was the wing on the north-east side; but when the restoration of the Castle was commenced under the auspices of the late Duke, this was removed to make room for the great library. The character of its architecture was that of the time of Henry the Eighth. It consisted of the family apartments, with a splendid gallery, a hundred and twenty feet in length, lighted by eight windows looking into the court, and erected by Earl Henry, the last of the Fitzalans.