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HINTS ON GLASS TAINTING. 178 Tlio niinutoriess and uniform method in which these styles are several!}- descrihed, cannot but be servieeuhle to the student. After such general observations as may tend to convey a fair idea of each style, the foUowii.g points undergo a careful examination : the texture and colour of the glass ; mode of execution; figures; foliage; borders; patterns; pictures; canopies; tracery; heraldry; letters; mechanical construction. PERPENDICULAR STYLE, WODIIANSTEENE CHURCH, SURREY All this chapter requires attentive perusal, which will be assisted by the illustrations, which, with their descriptions, entirely occupy the second part. " They are all copied from genuine examples, and are arranged in two classes ; the first consists of designs on a reduced scale, some coloured, some executed merely in outline, and which form of themselves a tolerably con- nected series of glass paintings from the thirteenth to the seventeenth