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Title: A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
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Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of to-day inEngland ? Any churchwarden or clergyman will knowhow extraordinarily difficult it is to procure lamps ofreally handsome and pleasing design.1 Yet it rarelyseems to occur to makers to copy those which werefashioned in times when even the manufacturer of usefulbrass-work was not ashamed to be an artist. Unhappily it is not in the case of church-fittingsonly that such a state of affairs prevails, especially inthis matter of lamps. A year or two back I remembersearching the entire stock of a great London establish- 1 In the church at Heachara in Norfolk may be seen a set of hanginglamps presented to it by Mr. Neville Rolfe, the British Consul at Naples.These beautiful pierced holders are reproduced from one that hangs inthe sanctuary of St. Marks Cathedral at Venice. Their design is wellworthy of the attention of any who desire to follow Mr. Rolfes excellentexample, and provide an English church with lamps that are as service-able as they are satisfactory to the eye and taste.
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Brass Lamp-Holder from the Chapel of the Familyluperelli-pltti in corona (The chains have been set further apart since purchase) A TUSCAN WINE-FARM 91 ment before I could procure hanging lamps that wereeven simple and, to my fancy, of a not unpleasing shape.When in Florence itself I looked through the contentsof a shop where such articles were sold, with a like result.All were florid in execution and vulgar in design. It is the same everywhere in the case of brass-work.Thus some of my readers may have noticed the beautifulseventeenth-century chandeliers which still hang in certainof the churches of Holland—kerk-krone they are called—and have noticed too how pleasingly they attract theeye, making bright points whereby it can appreciate thedimensions of those great fanes. Yet when gas becamecommon, in very many cases these kerk-Jcrone were pulledout of the churches to be sold as old brass and replacedby cast gun-metal brackets of the most atrocious patterns.Yes, and this was done al

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