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bite: CHURCHES 213 emptiness and uniformity. The perpetrators of the last vandalism are not to be reached by the hatred and scorn of the civilised world; but it seems as if something must be very wrong in the government of the city if there is no means of calling them to account and of forcing them to replace what they have so brutally destroyed. Another of Wren’s best effects has also lately perished. The tower of St. An-. tholin’s, Watling Street, was unique; and, besides, it formed part of a composition of great importance to any one who would make an estimate of Wren s place as an artist. Contrasted with the square tower of St. Mary Aldermary, it enabled us to judge as to the comparative merits of square towers and tapering spires, and also as to the merits of Gothic and classical architecture. In it Wren showed us how, with
