[M2.1L]                                                               [M2.1]									1.
                                                                      
                                                                      This book continues 1850, ends abruptly on the road home, at
                                                                      Bourges, in 1851, some notes of Wenlock, p 188.  INDEX. p 189
                                                                      
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                                                                      Chap.				Of the Venetian Dentil.
                                                                      
                                                                      		We have seen how much the picturesque effect of early work
                                                                      		depended on the tracing of lines upon its surfaces: (work
                                                                      		out this in comparing Lombard architecture with Prout &c.)
                                                                      		Now, there are of course two modes of tracing a surface
                                                                      		line in distant effect:  The one by the raising or sinking
                                                                      		of a continuous ridge or hollow, which shall produce a
                                                                      		line of continuous shade:  The other by a succession of
                                                                      		points of shade, obtained either by bosses or hollows.
                                                                      		The most ornamental method is assuredly the last:  It
                                                                      		is employed in the ornament of nature more frequently 
                                                                      		than any other:  In that of art, it is the principle of
                                                                      		the common Ionic dentil - of the bead mouldings of all the
                                                                      		orders - of the Norman billet - the English dogtooth;  and
                                                                      		in its simplest and most ingenious application - of the
                                                                      		Venetian dentil.
                                                                      
                                                                      		(Note, dogtooth cut out of ridge in Servi) and gabled
                                                                      		dentil perhaps in its boldest development with a late leaf
                                                                      		plinth in the church of St Polo.

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