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 NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. 119 Chancellor Seton, about the year 1000, aud presents an endless variety of detail, to which Mr. Billmg has not failed to do justice in the larger plates, which have all been engraved by Le Keux. As the author professes to give, at least, one representation of every ancient edifice worthy of notice in Scotland, it would far exceed our limits, to enter into any particular description of the numerous subjects already selected by him for illustration ; but as an exception to the style prevalent at the period of its erection, we have selected a specimen of Window IIe:nl at Wintoun House. detail from a window head at Wintoun House, built in 1620, and which, with its lofty stacks of ornamented chimneys, partakes freely of the Eliza- bethan or Tudor style, in vogue in England in the seventeenth century, though still presenting many distinctive national features. We nmst not close this brief notice without calling attention to the singularly picturesque little vignettes plentifully distributed throughout the work, from which we select, as not the least interesting, in a historical point of view, Tautallon Castle, the ancient stronghold of the Douglas, and whose former glories have been so beautifully sung in Scott's " Marmion." Two volumes of tliis work are now published, consisting of thirty parts ; it is proposed by the spmted proprietors, to complete it in thuty more.