Indeed, it was the habit of a certain great tutor
regu- larly, once a year, to instruct the younger members of his house on the buried beauties of the College Chapel, during the hour of that curious institution " Sunday Private." But if some realistically-minded lower boy ever suggested that, since these paintings were so beautiful, it might conceivably be of interest to uncover them, the great tutor somewhat severely pointed out the obvious impossibility of making any change in the College ChapeL Etonians must, indeed, be grateful to Lord Lee for having by his efforts greatly enriched their Chapel, for even in their present mutilated form the paintings are a. vast improvement on the canopies of the stalls. They must, of course, never again. be. covered up. If Lord. Lee. had not emphasized this point in his letter, we should have supposed that the question could never have arisen.
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