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186 Provençe; the cathedral of Bonn, a specimen of the style prevalent in Germany at the beginning of the thirteenth century; the mosque of Ibn Tûlûn at Kairo, said to have been completed in 878, a valuable specimen of Saracenic architecture; and the cathedral of Freyburgh, an imposing monument of the Gothic style as prevalent in Germany. All these form very excellent studies, and the outline will naturally be filled up by other examples in the two following volumes; for it appears by the preface that the whole work is to extend to three volumes.

This volume concludes with two specimens of modern buildings, the church of the Invalides at Paris, a work of the age of Louis XIV., and the Halle-au-Blé, or Corn Exchange, with its remarkable dome of cast-iron, executed in the earlier part of the present century. 2em 

At the morning sitting of the 23rd of June, business was commenced by an account of some renewed excavations on the site of the castellum at Jublains, lately purchased as a specimen of transition from Gallo-Roman to that of early feudal military architecture, and the Society had the pleasure to learn that a habitation having thereon been built for the superintendant of the roads thereabout, this monument had been put under his protection; and it was also announced that an archæological map of Anjou had recently been published. M. de la Sicotiere having then read an account of the preceding evening's archæological promenade, the Director, in continuation of his former questions, asked. What were the most ancient churches of the neighbourhood, and what peculiarities of construction and decoration did they exhibit? In answering this, the Abbé Bourassé took occasion to suggest the advantage of carefully studying all those churches built by Gregory of Tours, in order to ascertain therefrom the principles of Romano-Byzantine architecture in Touraine. Other questions discussed were—Whether any Angerine churches of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were of circular or Greek-cross form, or with unusually arranged masonry, or peculiarly shaped buttresses, or the beak-moulding, the pearl-studded moulding, or that called by the French flabelliform, and more especially what churches had been fortified with machicolations. The archivist of the department having then presented sundry documents illustrating the dates of several churches therein, and of the old stone bridge at Angers, the President closed the sitting by inviting the Society to visit at noon the abbey church of St. Serge.

At the second sitting, at two o'clock, M. Godard, the author of an excellent monumental history of Anjou, informed the Society as to the mouldings most worthy of remark in that province. M. de Caumont then animaderted