text:  We love a ramshackle place like this; it does one good to get out of the associations of the present century and to retrograde a bit; it is pleasant to see how people used to pig together in ancient days without any of the mathematical formalities of the present day; it keeps one's eye in tone to look back at works of the middle ages; and we may learn the more justly to criticize what we see arising about us by refreshing our recollections of the mouldering past