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 252 NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. portrait ; it agrees in a remarkable manner with a small equestrian statue of Charlemagne in metal, in the possession of INIr. Albert Lenoir. — The next paper is on " The Goldsmith's Work of the middle ages" by the Abbe Texier ; the present paper is chiefly occupied by an account of the workmen of Montpellier and Limoges; in future numbers we are promised an analysis, classification, and description of their works ; the present paper is illustrated by an engraving of the reliquary of St. Julie at Jouarre, it is an elegant work of the thirteenth century. — The next is a continuation of a series of papers on the drama of the sixteenth century, by M. de la Fons Melicocq. The next head is "Melanges et Nouvelles," corresponding to our "Archae- ological Intelligence." Under this head the first subject is the " Jesse Window at Dorchester, Oxfordshire," with an engraving of it from the Oxford Society's history of that church ; it is probably well known to most of our readers as a window of the fourteenth century, and not much if at all after 1350 ; it is assigned by M. Didron to the end of the fifteenth cen- tury. This mistake probably arises from the resemblance of the later ex- amples of English Decorated work to the French Flamboyant work of a century later. M. Didron states that there are no examples of Jesse win- dows in France, similar to this at Dorchester, with the exception of the pierced tympan of the north doorway of Beauvais cathedral, and he does not appear to be aware that there are several other examples in England. We have next an unpublished letter of Chai-les VIL, relating to the siege of Orleans in 1429. Some account of 2:)aintings on the walls of several churches in the departments of Lot and Haute Vienne, by the Abbe Texier. A remonstrance against the mutilation of the church of Saint Leu, and the destruction of the church " Des Dames du Calvaire," in Paris, and. on the suppression or mutilation of several other monuments. The number con- cludes as usual with short notices of recent archseological publications, a valuable and useful feature of the Annales, especially in this countiy, where it is often difficult to learn the progress of archteology in foreign countries, or to hear of the new works of foreign archaeologists. It is but justice to M. Didron to mention also that the engravings in his Annales are beautifully executed, some on copper, others on wood, which are also carefully printed on separate pages as plates ; while those in De Caumont's Bulletin, though very numerous, are very rough and coarse woodcuts, and printed in the most rude manner merely as type.