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however, we must refer to the pages of 
our forth-coming Supplement such of our 
readers as may not previously haye leisure 
or opportunity for the perusal of the work 
itself. 
The Monumental Remains of Noble and 
Eminent Persons, comprizing the Sepulchral 
Antiquities of Great Britain, Engraved 
from Drawings, by Exwagp Borg, F.s.A. 
With Historical and Biographical Illustra- 
tions.—Parts I., IT., and III., of this very 
splendid work, now before us, contain the 
Monuments of Edward the Black Prince 
(1376)~-from Canterbury Cathedral ; Ef- 
figy of the same; Thomas Hatfield, Bishop 
of Durham (1381)—from Durham Cathe- 
dral; Archibald, fifth Earl of Douglas 
(1438)—from the church of Douglas; and 
Gervase Alard, Admiral of the Cinque 
Ports (time of Edward III.)—from the 
church at Winchelsea; Effigy of Elinor, 
Queen of Edward I. (Ob. 1290)—from 
Westminster Abbey; Monuments of Ed- 
ward III. (1327)—from Ditto; Richard 
Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (1439) 
—from the Beauchamp-chapel, Warwick ; 
Sir James Douglas (1331)—from Douglas ; 
and Archbishops Peekham (Ob. 1292), and 
Warham (Ob. 1532), joined together— 
from Westminster Abbey; Monuments of 
Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland 
(1425) — from Staindrop-church, Dur- 
ham; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester 
(1446) —from St. Alban’s; Brian, Lord 
Fitzalan, of Bedale (1301) —from Be- 
dale-church, Yorkshire.—The plates are 
beautifully executed, in the very best style of 
architectural engraving, with sufficient re- 
lief of light and shadow, without any of 
that heavy blackness, or those abrupt lamp- 
light-contrasts with which our eye has fre- 
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this description. The florid ornaments of 
the gothic sculpture are brought out with a 
light, but effective touch ; and there is gene- 
rally enough of the broken line in the trace 
of the graver; to give the semblance of an- 
tiquity to the objects, without degenerating 
into slovenly roughness, or an affectation 
of detail, inconsistent with the scale of the 
representation. The historical and bio- 
graphical compilations which accompany 
the plates will merease their interest, in 
the estimation of those who do not con- 
sider such publications as mere furniture ; 
and the typographical part (though we 
think the letter somewhat too slight and 
delicate to be in accordance with : the 
monuments of antiquity it illustrates) will 
be regarded ‘as in the best style of fashion- 
able printing: and the paper is equally su- 
perb in size and texture. The work, when 
complete, promises to be worthy of a place 
among the splendid quartos which adorn 
the libraries of the luxurious, and gratify 
the pride of the antiquary. ‘The price, con- 
sidering the execution, would be far from 
immoderate, even for the plates alone— 
12s. 6d. a part, with five plates in .each, 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
[July 1, 
besides occasional vignettes (of which we 
have a large one, in the third part, of the 
subterranean vault of Duke Humphrey, at 
St. Alban’s). For those who would fur- 
ther enhance the luxury “ of books by far 
too splendid to be read,” there are copies in 
royal quarto, with proofs on-large paper, 
price 20s:; and, for the optimates of biblio- 
graphic _epicurism, a few impressions are 
drawn off on India paper, price 30s. 
The History and Antiquities of the Tower 
of London, with Memoirs of Royal and Dis- 
tinguished Persons, &c. &c., from Records, 
State Papers, and other Original and Au- 
thentic Sources. By JOHN BaYtey, Es@., 
r.k.S. P.8.A. Part If. 4to.—This is one 
of those truly valuable works, which do 
more towards giving us a true conception 
of what is really important in the history 
of past times, than all the flourished vo- 
lumes of the Humes and pseudo-historians, 
who deck out the pretended records of 
reigns and national achievements, the de- 
tails of sieges and battles, and the conten- 
tions of parties for dominion and. power. 
That it constitutes a valuable appendage to 
the volumes of State Trials, is the smallest 
part of its merit. It lets us know, in many 
striking instances, what power is—the 
power of rank and station, as well as of 
acknowledged sovereignty and office; and 
how, when not restrained by equal laws and 
diffused intelligence, through the means of 
publicity, and a popular power, organized 
and acknowledged, to give efficacy to those 
laws, and enforce responsibility, it will 
inevitably be abused; swelling to hideous 
amount the sufferings of oppressed huma-~ 
nity. And what makes the work so much 
the more valuable is, that it accomplishes 
all this without design; being written and 
compiled, as all history should be, with no 
other apparent view than that of preserving, 
and rendering accessible, the faithful reeord 
of events that have occurred; not as mat- 
ter of argument, but as authentic narration. 
The materials, however, are too interest- 
ing, and the sympathy which, in many in- 
stances, they excite, too vivid, not to super- 
induce such reflections in the mind of th 
considerate reader. ; 
History of Paris, from the Earliest Pe- 
riod to the Present Day. 3 vols. 8v0.— 
Among the very few works of general in- 
terest that have lately been presented to 
the public, this history may take some Jead. 
Paris has become so familiar to all classes, 
that the bare mention of the name is’ suf- 
ficient to attract attention; and any work 
that serves to recall] old associations, and to 
give new and curious information, tends to 
enlarge the ideas, and strengthen the bond 
of amity between nation and nation. Paris, 
even more,than London, abounds with ob- 
jects worthy of the notice of the inquirer ; 
and the description of various publie build- 
ings, churehes, monasteries, and palaces, 
with their history, joined to anecdotes, tradi- 
tionary 
