they are nothing but wrecks of what they were; and the ruins of paintings originally coarse are not likely ever to be attractive to the public mind. Twenty or thirty years ago they were taken down to be retouched; but the man to whom the task was committed providentially died, and only one of them was spoiled. I have found traces of his work upon another, but not to an extent very seriously destructive. The rest of the sixty-two, or, at any rate, all that are in the upper room, appear entirely intact. Although, as compared with his other works, they are all very scenic in execution, there are great differences in their degrees of finish; and, curiously enough, some on the ceilings and others in the darkest places in the lower room are very nearly finished pictures, while the "Agony in the Garden," which is in one of the best lights in the upper room, appears to have been painted in a couple of hours with a broom for a brush. For the traveller's greater convenience, I shall give a rude plan of the arrangement, and list of the subjects, of each group of pictures before examining them in detail. First Group. On the walls of the room on the ground floor. [Illustration: 1. Annunciation. 5. The Magdalen. 2. Adoration of Magi. 6. St. Mary of Egypt. 3. Flight into Egypt. 7. Circumcision. 4. Massacre of Innocents. 8. Assumption of Virgin. At the turn of the stairs leading to the upper room: 9. Visitation.]