16 THE DANCE OP DEATH.

Many of the bridges in Germany and Switzerlandwere ornamented in this manner, a specimen ofwhich is still to be seen at Lucerne; and it isprobable that almost every church of eminencewas decorated with a Dance of Death. In thecloisters of St. Innocent's church at Paris, inthose belonging to the old cathedral of St. Paulat London*, and in St. Mary's church at Berlin,these paintings were to be seen. At Klingen-thal, a convent in the Little Basil, are the re-mains of a Dance of Death, differently designedfrom that at the Dominicans, and thought to bemore ancient. The figures remaining till verylately in Hungerford's chapel, in the cathedralat Salisbury, and known by the title of Deathand the Young Man, were undoubtedly part ofa Death's Dance, as might be further insistedon from the fragment of another compartmentwhich was close to them. In the church a,tHexham, in Northumberland, are the remainsof a Death's Dance; and at Feschamps, in Nor-mandy, it is carved in stone, between the pil-lars of a church; the figures are about eighteeninches high. Even fragments of painted glass,

* On the walls of a cloister on the north side of St. Paul's,called Pardon-church-haugh, was painted the Machabre, orDance of Death, a common subject on the walls of cloister*or religious places. This was a single piece, a long train of allorders of men, from the Pope to the lowest of human beings;each figure has as his partner, Death; the first shaking his