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 316 NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. design, should have been produced almost simultaneously. This has been unavoidable ; had it chanced that the authors had been aware of the projects which they respectively had in view, their united information might have been brought to bear with augmented advantage upon the subject of common research. Whilst, however, the beautiful Numbers in course of publication by Mr. Boutell, must attract many students, as promising a more complete outline of the great series of Monumental Antiquities, the value of Mr. Cutts' labours will be generally appreciated, as supplying a complete monograph of an interesting and neglected class of those remains, at a price rendering this large assemblage of curious illustrations accessible to every Archaeological student. We are indebted to Mr. Cutts, and to the spirited publisher of this volume, for the kind permission to lay before our readers the accompany- ing examples of the wood-cuts. In one, we are enabled to present an exceedingly interesting memorial, that of an English Princess, Philippa, daugh- ter of Henry IV., who espoused Eric IX., king of Denmark, and was interred in the Convent of Wadstena,' in Sweden. It is remarkable that the armorial achievement of England alone (the old bearing of France, Semee, quarterly with the lions of Britain) is found upon the tomb. So many examples of "cross- slabs " have been produced in this Jour- nal, that we have gladly selected from the profusion of illustrations two sub- jects of more novel interest. One of these is a figure, appai'ently an eccle- siastic, from Gedling, Notts, here sub- mitted to our readers, in the hope to receive some suggestion as to the age or character of so curious a memorial, which we must admit our inability to determine. An authority which must be received with the highest deference, would assign the figure to the twelfth century, as a portraiture of an Austin Canon. Another highly curious spedimen is supplied by the figure of a Vicar of Corwen, Merionethshire, unique in de- sign, and striking as a production of native sculpture in a remote part of our island. We are not informed of the age or history of Jorwerth Sulien, and we look with keen expectation to the fruits of Mr. Westwood's indefatigable researches into the antiquities of this nature in the Principality. ,. ii._i_- Effigy in very low relief, Gedling, Notts. ' Inadvertently printed " Modstena," and in the letter-press " Madstena."