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 216 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. with which this instructive collection has heen viewed, has naturally sug- gested the production of several puhlications, to preserve faithful memorials of the precious objects, now first brought together, and so soon to be dispersed. The Honorar}- Secretary of the Exhibition Committee, Mr. Augustus Franks, is engaged ia preparing a detailed description of these works of art : and the value of his publication, to be amply illustrated from the drawings of Mr. Philip Delamotte, will be enhanced by the addition of notices of artistic processes employed, in accordance with a plan so ably carried out by Mons. Labarte, in his Catalogue of the invaluable Debruge Cabinet, forming a Cyclopaedia of Medieval Art, which should find a place in the library of every archaeologist. Subscribers to Mr. Franks's work are requested to send their names to Mr. Bell, the publisher. Another work, which promises to be of a very attractive character, has been announced by Mr. Cundall, and is nearly ready for publication. It comprises a series of sixty " choice examples of Art- workmanship," selected from the Medieval Collection, including several objects exhibited by the gracious permission of Her Majesty, the inimitable Lynn cup, and many exquisite specimens of ancient plate. Subscribers' names may be sent to Mr. Delamotte, 14, Queen's Terrace, Bayswater. Mr. H. EcROYD Smith, whose spirited undertaking in preserving faithful memorials of the tessellated pavements at Aldborough, we commended to the notice of antiquaries on a former occasion, has just completed another addition to his vahiable series of examples of this nature, one of singular beauty and interest, — the pavement discovered in 1830 in Jury Wall Street, Leicester. We are glad to learn that it is his intention to add {Ini Siibscription) a representation of another remarkable mosaic, of small dimensions, at the same place, the subject of which has hitherto been an enigma. When it is remembered how liable works of this nature are to injury, and how many vestiges of the Romans in Britain have, like the fine mosaics at Stonesfield, on the estates of the Duke of Marlborough, near Oxford, perished through disgraceful neglect, the good services rendered by Mr. Smith in the preservation of most accurate delineations of these remains deserve the warmest encouragement. Communications may be addressed to him at Saffron Walden, Essex. A work which cannot fail to interest many of our readers, has been announced, comprising specimens of ancient crosses and fonts in Cornwall : a county in which numerous sculptured remains of an early period ai'e to be found, hitherto little known. Antiquaries have been indebted to the Rev. William Ilaslam for bringing under their notice some of these ancient Christian memorials. It is proposed to give three numbers, of which the first, containing twenty-four crosses, will shortly be ready for delivery. The publisher is Mr. Cleaver, 46, Piccadilly. The curious churches existing in Sussex, some of which are already known to our readers through the memoir contributed to this Journal by Mr. Petit, have long claimed a greater degree of attention than they had hitherto received. The useful stimulus given to inquii-y in that county through the Meetings and Publications of the " Sussex Archieological Society," has, no doubt, encouraged the projected production of a series of examples, to be published by Mr. R. IL Nibhs, Brighton (by subscription). The first series will comprise twelve monthly parts, each of six plates.