Dec. 2. 1854.] 



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''Bather'' (Vol. x., p. 252.).— We could not, 

 agreeably to usage, substitute sooner for rather in 

 the expressions — ''Bather a handsome woman," 

 " Bather unwell," though preference or prece- 

 dence in comparison is plainly denoted. Q. 



Bloomsbury. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The eminent services rendered by Dr. Diamond to 

 Photography, and through Photography to Archaeology, 

 have given rise to a general feeling that he is entitled to 

 some public aclinowledgment in the nature of a Testi- 

 monial. Scarcely any of the practisers of photography 

 have not received great benefit from the suggestions 

 aud improvements of Dr. Diamond. Those improve- 

 ments have been the results of numerous and costly 

 experiments, carried on in the true spirit of scientific 

 inquiry, and afterwards explained in the most frank 

 and liberal manner : without the slightest reservation or 

 endeavour to obtain from them acy private or personal 

 advantage. Dk. Diamond's conduct in this respect has 

 been in every way so peculiarly honourable, that we 

 cannot doubt that many persons will be rejoiced to have 

 an opportunity of testifying their sense of his high merits 

 and their own obligations to him, by aiding the suggested 

 Testimonial. A meeting of gentlemen favourable to the 

 proposal is about to be held, aud we shall be happy to 

 I'eceive any communications upon the subject, or contri- 

 butions towards the proposed end. 



" We hear," says The Athenaum, " that it is at length 

 positively determined that the State Papers shall be re- 

 moved from their present custody, and deposited in the 

 new Record Offices. After the manner in which the im- 

 propriety of this arrangement has been shown, and the 

 policy of placing these documents where their counter- 

 parts are alreadj' arranged and accessible — namely, in 

 the British Museum — has been urged, perseverance in the 

 sclieme of placing them under the charge of Her Majesty's 

 Keeper of Records, looks like a deliberate refusal to at- 

 tend to the express wishes of literary men. Surely Her 

 Majesty's Government cannot be ignorant of what has 

 been so often proved — namely, that when it was deter- 

 mined to publish the collection of State Papers, it was 

 found necessary to get nearly one-half of the materials 

 for the eleven volumes from the collections at the British 

 Museum: — a fact which establishes the propriety of the 

 transfer to that establishment of the documents now pro- 

 posed to be sent to the Record Offices. We may add, 

 that the rumour is in circulation, that the amount of 

 papers forwarding to the Record Office from all the dif- 

 ferent public departments is such, that the new buildings 

 will not be sufficient to contain them." 



The Arundel Society continues its praiseworthj' en- 

 deavours to promote the knowledge of Art. It has just 

 issued its publications for the past year, which consist of 

 six engravings on wood (concluding the series of four- 

 teen) by Messrs. Dalziel, from Mr. W. Oliver Williams' 

 Drawings from the Frescoes by Giotto in the Chapel of 

 S. M. deir Arena, at Padua, and, what will be sure to 

 be even more prized by the subscribers to the Society, 

 the first part of Mr. Raskin's Giotto, and his Works in 

 Fadua. This, which is explanatory of the subjects en- 

 graved at the fourth and fifth years' publication of the 

 Society, is well calculated to accomplish the object which 

 Mr. Ruskin had in view, namely, to render this series of 

 plates intelligible and interesting to those among its 



members who have not devoted much time to the ex- 

 amination of mediaeval works. 



We have received from our accomplished friend, Pro- 

 fessor Worsaae, of Copenhagen, a work which we have no 

 doubt will be received with great satisfaction by English 

 antiquaries. It is entitled Afbildninger fra det Kongelige 

 Museum for Nordiscke Oldsager i Kjobenhavn. Ordnede 

 ogforklarede af J. J. A. Worsaae; and, as the name im- 

 plies, contains a series of engravings of objects of archajo- 

 logical interest from the Royal Museum of Antiquities at 

 Copenhagen, selected and explained by Professor Wor- 

 saae. The intimate relations which have, even from the 

 remotest period, existed between Denmark and these 

 islands, must ensure for the present volume a wide cir- 

 culation in this country. 



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