334 Domestic and Foreign. [Sept. 



en passant. Disgusting as every thing in Italy is, he finds evidence enough that 

 the Romans of old, ladies and all, were to the full as bad as the moderns ; and 

 Lady Morgan is not forgotten, because she could not see, or would not describe, 

 some of the indelicacy which met his own eyes, though she is far from fastidious. 

 The book, however, is very superior; the author is a man of real intelligence — 

 of considerable reading ; and he brings it to bear occasionally with great felicity. 

 He is too perpetually on the hunt for smart sayings, and sometimes misses his 

 mark ; but though this and his poetry be calculated to depreciate — that only 

 applies to the taste of the writer — there is sound knowledge at the bottom, and 

 much that is well-fitted to correct misconception and prejudice. 



FINE ARTS' PUBLICATIONS. 



' A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archceology of the Middle Ages. By John 

 Britton, F. S. A. — Of the Dictionary itself we have nothing to say, in this branch 

 of our critical department ; but the engravings, of which there are ten in each 

 part, are well executed from drawings by Cattermole and others. We are some- 

 times scarcely aware of the beauties of the minor details of architectural decora- 

 tion, until they are brought before us in this manner. There are here brackets, 

 buttresses, shafts, and crosses, in sufficient variety, to charm both the artist and 

 the antiquarian. 



Two more numbers of the English School h&ve reached us. They comprise 

 some beautiful outlines of popular pictures by Stothard, Reynolds and Wilkie, 

 besides many others worthy of remembrance. 



History and Topography of the United States of North America, edited by John 

 Howard Hinton, A.M. — The two parts, l9 and 20, just issued, complete the 

 first volume of this work ; that is to say the History of North America — the 

 succeeding parts will contain the Tojiography. After the notices we have given 

 of it, it only remains for us to express our hope that the next volume will be 

 equal to the first, that the embellishments will be of the same character, and 

 that its popularity may be proportioned to its value. 



77ie Biblical Series of the Family Cabinet Atlas, Part 3. — This number of the 

 beautiful little Atlas published under the above title, contains maps of the 

 Land of Canaan, of India or Palestine, of the Tribes of Judah and Simeon, and 

 of Canaan or the Land of Promise. 



77(6 Monastic Annals of Teviotdale, by the Rev. Jas. 3Iorton, F. S. A. E. — A 

 quarto work of first-rate promise, both as regards its literary illustrations and its 

 engravings. The first number is devoted to Jedburgh Abbey, of which an in- 

 teresting and succinctly-written history is given, containing much curious infor- 

 mation, collected, we should think, with much research, and arranged with 

 equal care. The embellishments are excellent. The first plate is a view of the 

 fine old abbey from the south-west — a well selected and picturesque view, 

 executed with extreme softness and beauty. The next is a curious old Roman 

 door in the abbey, no less masterly, in its style, than the other. These are 

 drawn and engraved by W. H. Lizars. The number also contains a plan of the 

 abbey. 



Society for the Encouragement of Medal Engraving in Great Britain. — We 

 leave the prospectus of this new Society to tell its own story, by extracting a 

 passage or two that are entitled to the attention of all patrons of art : — " Highly 

 cultivated as the Fine Arts are In this country, it is singular that this branch of 

 art (Medal Engraving) the most Imperishable in its nature of the whole circle, 

 should have been so signally neglected. It cannot be supposed that a country 

 which has produced such eminent painters, sculptors, and engravers as England, 

 would be found deficient in men fully competent to assert her superiority in medal 

 engraving. Yet Captain Mudle, who recently published a series of national 

 medals, commemorative of British victories, was obliged to get the greater part 

 of them engraved in France ! Even the celebrated series of the Kings of Eng- 

 '"""1 were executed entirely by a Frenchman ! It is now proposed to raise medal 



