No one can conceive of the magnificence of the liturgy and of plain-song who has not heard them at Solesmes.

If Notre Dame des Arts had a special sanctuary, it undoubtedly would be there." "Is the chapel ancient ?" "A part of the old church remains, and the famous Solesmes sculpture, dating from the sixteenth century.

Unfortunately, there are some quite disastrous windows in the apse: the Virgin between Saint Peter and Saint Paul; modern glass in its most piercing atrocity.

But, then, where is decent glass to be had ?" "Nowhere.

We have only to look at the transparent pictures let into the walls of our new churches to appreciate the incurable idiocy of painters who insist on treating window panes from cartoons, as they do subject pictures--and such subjects! and such pictures! All turned out by the gross from cheap glass melters, whose thin material dots the pavement of the church with spots like confetti, strewing lollipops of colour wherever the light falls.
"Would it not be far better to accept the colourless scheme of window-glass used at Citeaux, where a decorative effect was produced by a design in the lead lines; or to imitate the fine grisailles, iridescent from age, which may still be seen at Bourges, at Reims, and even here, in our cathedral ?" "Certainly," said the Abbe.