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Rh objects of eastern fabric which bad been acquired by the bishop during the few months he was resident in the east, among others a chess-board which had been presented to him at Acre. It is characteristic of the times and of the peril attendant on travelling in the Holy Land, that he bequeathed to his servant Lundwid his hauberk with a hood, vernacularly called a "culder."

We hope this short notice may convey some idea of the value of these interesting volumes, and that they may obtain from English antiquaries that attention which they so eminently deserve. In conclusion we may observe that this collection, together with other scarce works on Swedish literature, has been presented to the Archaeological Institute by the Royal Library at Stockholm, through M. Arwidson; a gratifying recognition of the importance of those objects for the attainment of which the Institute has been organised.

congratulate the editors on the completion of the first volume of this able publication, and trust it has met the success which it merits. The antiquities of Wales have been long neglected ; and it is a satisfactory proof of a growing desire for their illustration, on sound principles, that a work should have appeared devoted solely to Cambrian archæology. The comprehensive plan adopted by its conductors will be best understood in their own words:

"We intend, in the pages of the Archæologia Cambrensis, to follow the example of the French Government Commissions, and to print sets of instructions, questionaries, or formularies, by which the antiquary will be greatly aided in his operations, from knowing what, and how, to observe. And to this end we shall avail ourselves of the printed forms issued by those Commissions, as well as of the similar forms used by some English antiquarian bodies, which have kindly given us leave to profit by their discoveries. Antiquarian research may thus be carried on throughout Wales on something like an uniform plan; discoveries may be more easily compared, illustrated, and classified; difficulties may be more readily solved; and communication of knowledge more rapidly sustained. In drawing up such formularies, however, it is necessary that the general experience of the antiquarian world be consulted. We therefore solicit the aid of all who feel an interest in studies of this kind; and we beg of them to communicate to us their ideas and their observations. In making observations of this kind, scarcely any remark is too trivial to be thrown away: what to some persons may seem unimportant or ridiculous, may, on farther examination and comparison, prove to be of great value. Who could ever have thought of