Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Topagraphy, Kc. 
price of labour and materials, but even 
of the manner in which the latter were 
worked. From the first part of these 
accounts we learn, that the stone which 
was used came principally from Caen, 
Ryegate, and Portland. From others, 
which relate to the glaziers and painters 
on glass, it appears that the material was 
brought to the chapel in an unprepared 
state for use, and not only cut and joined, 
but even drawn upon and painted on the 
spot. The same also appears in regard 
to the paintings on the walls, the aifferent 
colours of which were ground and tem- 
pered at the building. From the dif- 
ferent items, the g generality of the masons 
appear to have had from’ 4d. to oad. 
day; the scaffold-makers 34d.; the ite 
terers and carpenters 4d. ; ‘the men who 
made the stalls 5d. and 6d.; the master 
glaziers 1s.; the working glaziers 6d.; 
the colour-grinders 4$d.; and the paint- 
ers on glass 7d. 
labourers of the lower class 23d. and 3d.; 
and the painters of the tabernacles 6d. 
7d. and even 10d. a day each. All of 
them higher in proportion than the wages 
which occur upon the rolls of Edward the 
First’s time, 
No fair idea, however, can he formed of 
the cost of the whole undertaking, nor even 
any average of the weekly expenditure. 
The plates, which are executed in dif- 
ferent styles, do preat credit to the artists 
employed. Some of them are richly co- 
“sured; and the work, altogether, is high- 
Ly deserving of encouragement. 
As a book not only of recent but cor- 
rect description we mention * The New 
Picture of Scotland,” in two small vo- 
lumes. Instead of dividing the kingdom 
into counties or shires, the distinction of 
tours or roads is adopted; so that the 
traveller who may use this publication 
for his guide, will find the route he is 
pursuing, the stages, distances, antiqui- 
ties, curiosities, historical memoranda 
and beauties, in one continued uninter- 
Tupted line, without being obliged to 
turn for diiferent counties to different 
and unconnected parts of the work. 
In the ‘“ Hisforical and descriptive 
Account of the Town of Laacaster,” we 
do not find much more than might be 
expected in an ordinary Guide, What 
is related of its present condition seems, 
generally speaking, correct: although 
there may not be any good authority for 
saying that “The county of Lancaster 
48 supposed to have been first settled by 
a colony of the Cetta, about five hundred 
years beiore the birth of Christ.” The 
The paviors 5d.; the 
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most curious part of this little volume 
is probably that which relates to the 
Roman antiquities which have been 
found at different times within the limits 
of the town. It is accompanied by an 
ancient and a modern plan of Lancaster, 
a plan of the castle, and a wood en- 
graving of a Roman miliary. 
With the fourth volume of Mr. Matr- 
cotm’s “ Londinium Redivioum,” we 
must contess oerselves less pleased than 
with its three precursors. The most 
curious of the numerous articles which 
compose it, are probably those on the 
Fire of London, on St. Martin’s Ludgate, 
St. Olave’s Jewry, and St. Mary - le- 
Strand: but there is a prolixity in the 
details which tends, we think, to make 
it more a book for reference than read- 
ing. Mr. Malcolm, however, has evinced 
his industry asa collector of materials. 
Mr. Ineram’s “ Inaugural Lecture, at 
Oxford, on the Study of Anglo-Saxon Li- 
terature,” will be fouud well worthy the 
attention of the antiquary. It is the 
first work, for the production of which 
we are indebted to Dr. Rawlinson’s en- 
dowment. The following are the mate- 
rial points which Mr. Ingram appears to 
have pressed upon his audience in favour 
and recommendation of Anglo-Saxon Li- 
terature. — First, that the study of it has 
never been neglected or vilified by men 
of learning, but, on the contrary, uni-: 
formly cultivated and promoted. In the 
second place, he enlarges on the induce- 
ments to its cultivation. And in the 
third, suggests, that it is not only of par- 
ticular Importance to Englishmen, but 
even capable of being made a subject 
of general interest in the pursuit of uni- 
versal knowledge; and that it may serve 
as a medium of illustration to those who 
are disposed to study and investigate the 
philosophical principles of grammar and 
the true theory of language. 
Under tie first head Mr. Ingram briefly 
traces the encouragement which Anglo- 
Saxon Literature has received from time 
to time, not only among our monastic 
institutions antecedent to the reforma-~ 
tion, but subsequently. Among its zea- 
Jous promoters in the sixteenth century 
he enumerates Leland, Lambard, Arch- 
bisnop Parker, Bale, Dr. Laurence Now- 
ell, Dr. Keyes, and Fox the martyrolo- 
gist. Among ‘those of the seventeenth, 
Sir Edward Coke, Camden, Selden, Sit 
Symonds D)’Ewes, Sir Robert Cotton, the 
Spelmans, Ww heloe, Somner, and Fran- 
ciscus Junius; followed at a later period 
by Wanley, Bishop Gibson, Dr. Mull, 
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