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 DE CAUMONT, BULLETIN MONUMENTAL. 251 severance in producing such a number in these troubled times. We observe that he is now endeavouring to assemble another Meeting of the Society at Caen in the first week of October, and especially invites English Archicologists to attend it, on account of its ready access by way of South- ampton and Havre, and thence by the steamer up the river Orne direct to Caen, in a few hours. Annales Archeologiques dirigees par didron aine, Secretaire du Comite Historique des Arts et Monuments. Tom. 8, livraisons 7, 8. Paris, July and August, 1848, Since the revolution of February M. Didron has found it necessary to change the plan of his Amiales so far as to publish only six parts in the year instead of twelve; it now appears once in two months only, at the same price as before, in numbers, thirty francs for the year. It is conducted with the same spirit and talent which have hitherto distinguished it. The present number is fully as interesting as usual ; it commences with the rules of the National Society of Archaeology, founded at Paris in Jan- uary, 1848, chiefly under the auspices of M. Didi'on himself, and his im- mediate friends. We ai-e of course bound to wish prosperity to all societies whose object is to spread the study of archaeology ; but remembering the proverb that " union is strength," we cannot help regretting that the mem- bers of this new Society have not united with the " Societe Fran^aise pour la Conservation et Description des Monuments Nationaux," which has been several years in existence, and of which M. De Caumont is the leading member, whose activity and zeal are deserving of every encouragement. 'e will however hope that an amicable rivalry will stimulate both so- cieties into continued exertion, and perhaps more good may result than would have followed a union of forces. Tliis has been in some degree ex- emplified in England, and we may fairly hope that it will be the case in France also. The second j^'iper is " An essay on the Instruments of Music in the middle ages," a continuation of an able series of papers, by M. de Cousse- niaker; this is illustrated by engravings of figures holding musical instru- ments, from a house of the thirteenth century at Rheims, called the house of ths musicians ; they are interesting specimens of sculpture resting on corbels and under trefoiled canopies evidently of that period ; and other small figures from the illuminations of manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth 'centuries. — The next is a paper on " French Monuments at Rome" by M. F. de Guilherniy ; the present part relates to Charlemagne, a series of papers in continuation is promised ; as also another on similar monuments in Other parts of Italy by the Abbe Lacroix, French chaplain at Rome. This paper is illustrated. by an outline of a group of figures from an ancient mosaic, representing St. Peter, seated, with smaller figui'es, Pope Leo III. kneeling on the right hand, and Charlemagne on the left; this mosaic is con- sidered to be contemporary with Charlemagne, and his figure as an authentic