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Church. He resides in one of our western States, 

 and as soon as a communication can reach him, 

 inquiry shall be made as to what it was that he 

 did say respecting the destruction of the Inqui- 

 sition in Spain. He was for many years in the 

 French army, and when in this city a year or 

 two ago, he delivered a series of lectures upon the 

 horrors of war. He was here as a member of a 

 synod or convention of his Church. 



It is true that he is "a refugee Pole," and in 

 my humble judgment the circumstance does him 

 honour. So long as there is no Poland on the 

 map of Europe, the man is not to be sneezed at 

 who refuses to remain a Russian vassal in what 

 once was Poland. He has made a happy exchange 

 in coming to this country. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Earthenware Vessels found at Fountains Ahhey 

 (Vol. X., pp. 386. 434.). — I think there can be 

 no doubt that the vessels described by both your 

 correspondents were acoustic instruments. Vi- 

 truvius, in the chapter of his work on Architecture 

 which treats " Of the Vases of the Theatres " 

 (book V. ch. v.), recommends that brazen vases, 

 selected and arranged according to the laws of 

 harmony, should be placed in cells formed within 

 the seats of the theatres, and concludes with these 

 words : 



" If it is demanded in what theatres they are made use 

 of, Rome cannot show any ; but the provinces of Italy, 

 and many cities of Greece, can show them. We know 

 also that Lucius Mummius, who destroyed the theatre of 

 Corinth, brought to Rome the vases of brass, and dedi- 

 cated them in the temple of Luna. Likewise, many in- 

 genious architects, who construct theatres in small towns, 

 to save expense make use of earthen vessels to help the 

 sound, which being adjusted according to these rules, 

 answer the intended purpose." — The Architecture of 

 Vitruvius Pollio, translated by W. Newton, Architect, 

 London, mdccxci. 



C. Forbes. 

 Temple. 



It is highly probable that the earthenware jars 

 imbedded in the masonry of Fountains Abbey, 

 respecting which Mr. Peacock inquires, were so 

 placed for the sake of assisting sound. I have 

 read that the Romans so used them in their 

 buildings ; and that they have been found so 

 placed in the walls of the Coliseum, but have lost 

 my reference to the passage. Ovtjs. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Mr. Russell Sedgfield, of whose exquisite Photograph 

 of Salisbury Cathedral we spoke so highly some twelve 

 months since, has commenced a series of illustrations of 

 the principal objects of interest throughout these Islands. 

 The work is accordingly entitled Photographic Delinea- 



tions of the Scenery, Architecture, and Antiquities of Great 

 Britain and Ireland; and Mr. Sedgfield hopes to be 

 enabled to produce about eight Parts in the course of the 

 twelvemonth. The subjects of the present are: — I. The 

 Norman Tower, Bury St. Edmunds. II. The Abbey Gate, 

 Bury St. Edmunds. III. The South Transept of Norwich 

 Cathedral, the details of which are given with exquisite 

 minuteness and great beauty. IV. The West Front of 

 Burham Priory, Norfolk. V. Part of the Cloisters of 

 Norwich Cathedral. It is well remarked by our artist, 

 that however beautiful as works of Art may be the views 

 which have before been taken of the spots which he has 

 chosen, " there attaches a doubt of their perfect accuracy, 

 which detracts greatlj' from their value as faithful me- 

 morials of the objects of which they profess to be a 

 record." This objection, it is obvious, does not apply to 

 such a work as the one before us : and we know no higher 

 gratification to our students of topography, than that 

 which they must derive from the contemplation of such 

 truthful, yet artistic pictures, as those which Mr. Sedg- 

 field supplies in these Photographic Delineations. 



Mr. Murray has at length, by the publication of the 

 seventh volume, completed the third edition of Lord 

 Mahon's History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to 

 the Peace of Versailles, 1713 — 1783. The present volume 

 of this carefully-compiled and ably-written work, em- 

 braces the years 1780 — 1783, and has, like its predecessor, 

 an appendix of original documents, which adds greatly 

 to its value. The index, that important division of all 

 books, especially of books of history, which are books of 

 reference, is full and satisfactory. 



Our numismatic fiiends will thank us for calling their 

 attention to the Historical Notices of the Royal and Ar- 

 chiepiscopal Mints and Coinages at York, by Robert Davies, 

 F.S.A. It is a work full of much curious and interesting 

 matter, and does credit to the industry and judgment of 

 Mr. Davies. 



Books Received. — The Works of Philo Judcevs, the 

 cotemporary Of Josephus ; translated from the Greek, by 

 C. D. Yonge, B. A. — Vol. II. forms the new issue of Bohn's 

 Ecclesiastical Library, and we do not know in the whole 

 of that series a work which does greater credit to the 

 enterprise of the publisher. — Mr. Murray has just added 

 to his Railway Reading two small volumes of essentially 

 different character — though both reprints of works which 

 " have made themselves famous." The first is Mr. Henry 

 Taylor's Notes from Life, in wJiich the author of Philip 

 van Artevelde discourses thoughtfully and impressivelv on 

 Money ; Humiility and Independence ; Wisdom ; Choice 

 in Marriage ; Children ; and the Life Poetic. The other, 

 destined to please a wider circle, is a glorious shilling's 

 worth of humour, being the Rejected Addresses, or the 

 New Theatrum Poetarum, by James Smith and Horace 

 Smith ; with the Authors' latest Correbtions, Notes and II- 

 liistrutions. 



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