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10. 1849.] NOTES AND QUERIES;

Among the many periodicals which issue from the press, daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly, there is not one especially intended to assist Men of Letters and of research in their pursuits. Literary Journals there are in abundance, many of them of the highest degree of merit, which in their Reviews and Announcements show the current sayings and doings of the literary world. There is not, however, one among them in which the reading man may note, for the use of himself and his fellow-labourers in the wide fluid of Literature, the minute facts which he meets with from time to time, and the value of which he so well knows, or insert his Queries, in the hope of receiving satisfactory answers from some of his literary brethren.

, is, as its name implies, intended to supply this deficiency. Those who meet with facts worthy of preservation, may record them in its columns; while those, again, who are pursuing literary inquiries, may, through this, ask for information on points which have baffled their own individual researches. How often is even the best informed writer stopped by an inability to solve some doubt or understand some obscure allusion which suddenly starts up before him! How often does a reading man stumble upon some elucidation of a doubtful phrase, or disputed passage;—some illustration of an obsolete custom hitherto unnoticed;—some biographical anecdote or precise date hitherto unrecorded;—some book, or some edition, hitherto unknown or imperfectly described.

This Publication, as everybody's common-place book, will be a depository for those who find such materials, and a resource for those who are in search of them; and if the Editor is enabled by the inter-communication of his literary friends, to realise his expectations, it will form a most useful supplement to works already in existence,—a treasury for enriching future editions of them,—and an important contribution towards a more perfect history than we yet possess of our Language, our Literature, and those to whom we owe them.

will be published every Saturday, price 3d., or stamped, 4d., and may be had, by order, of all Booksellers and Newsmen, and will also be issued in Parts at the end of each Month.

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LLUSTRATIONS of the REMAINS of ROMAN ART in CIRENCESTER, the SITE of ANCIENT CORINIUM. By, F. G. S. and

The work will have reference principally to the illustration of the following subjects:

1. The remains of the architecture of Corinium, including detailed drawings and descriptions of the fine Tesselated Pavements, especially the one recently discovered, as also the beautiful specimen on the estate of the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst.

2. The specimens of Roman Pottery—Vases, Urns, &c.

3. Works in Metals—Statuettes, Ornaments, &c. &c.

4. Coins.

In order that due justice may be done to the Illustration of these Remains, it is intended to have them executed in the first style of art, and only a limited number of impressions will be taken.

To secure early copies, orders must be addressed at once to Messrs. and, Cirencester, or Mr. , 186. Fleet Street. Price to Subscribers, 12.

After the close of the Subscription List, the price will be raised to 15s.

N B.—Any person possessing Roman Antiquities from Cirencester, will confer a great favour on the Authors by communicating intelligence of them to Messrs. Baily and Jones.

HE PRIMEVAL ANTIQUITIES of DENMARK. By, Member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Copenhagen, and a Royal Commissioner for the Preservation of the National Monuments of Denmark. Translated and applied to the Illustration of similar Remains in England. By, F. S. A., Secretary of the Camden Society. Illustrated with numerous Woodcuts.

While so many publications illustrative of the Archæology of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, have appeared in this country, few attempts have been made to give a systematic view of the early Antiquities of the British Islands.

The work, of which the present volume is a translation, was originally written by Mr. Worsaae for the Copenhagen Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge, and intended, in the first place, to show how the early history of the country might be read through its Monuments, and in the second, to awaken a greater interest for their preservation. It has been translated and applied to the History of similar Remains in England, in the hope that it will be found a useful Handbook for the use of those who desire to know something of the nature of the numerous Primeval Monuments scattered over these Islands, and the light which their investigation is calculated to throw over the earliest and most obscured periods of nir national history.