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Britton says, is singular in shape; and 
constituting one of the round class is ex- 
tremely interesting, as displaying a dif- 
ferent and later style of architecture than 
either of the structures previously de- 
scribed. Witha circular portion at the 
west, and a semicircular east end, the' 
plan of the building is unique; and there- 
fore deserving particular illustration, Its 
exterior character, internal peculiarity, 
ground-plan, and entrance-doorway, are 
correctly displayed in three plates: judg- 
ing by the peculiarity of its members, 
which furnish the only clue in the absence 
of document, Mr. Britton refers its erec- 
tion to some period between or during 
the reigns of King John and Henry the 
Third. The whole length of the church, 
internally, is sixty feet. The circu- 
lar area twenty-six feet in diameter. 
“ Colchester Castle stands upon an 
elevated spot of ground, near the north- 
east corner of the station supposed by 
most writers to have been the ancient 
Camalodunum of the Romans: and was 
formerly encompassed with a foss and 
vallum. The remains consist mostly of 
the shell, or exterior walls of-what ap- 
pears to have been the Keep. The walls 
are extremely thick, and of vast solidity. 
They are constructed with a mixture of 
clay-stone, flint, Roman tiles, &c. the 
whole combined and strongly held toge- 
ther, by a proper quantity of lime-ce- 
ment poured into all the interstices. Yet 
strange as 1¢ may seem, after an account 
of such materials, the structure itself is 
not deemed of a remoter date than the 
Norman. conquest. Caen stones and 
Kentish rag are so much mixed with the 
masonry, that an earlier period cannot be 
assigned it. 
The doorway of the church of “South 
Okendon in Essex,” is another subject 
illustrated: it is a delicate specimen of 
what is called the Anglo-Norman style. 
These complete the first volume of Mi. 
Britton’s work : which, it appears, will now 
be confined to four volumes. Hitherto 
we have had no specimens of the earlier 
Saxon fiyle: but the subjeéts announced 
convince us thatneither pains nor expence 
will be spared to make the Architectural 
Antiguities not only a beautiful and an 
unique work, but a complete one. We 
fhall continue to report its progress. 
Dr. Coupen’s “ Notes and Observations 
on the early Part of the Hiftory of the 
s 
British Isles,” relate chiefly to the etymo- . 
logies of the names of nations and tribes; 
and he labours with no little success, 
through sixty-six pages, to prove that they 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Biography. 
were all equally of Celtic extraétion. 
The usual derivation of Scottifrom Scuith, 
a wanderer from Scythia, he deems ab- 
surd; deriving it rather from the Celtic 
Scaoth, a swarm, or multitude. An anec- 
dote toward the close tends very much 
to derogate from the bigh antiquity attri- 
buted to the Erse poems by Macpher- 
son. : 
BIOGRAPHY. 
Lord Orrorn’s “ Catalogue. of the 
Royal and Noble Authors of England, 
Scotland, and Ireland,” first appeared 
nearly half a century ago. The extended 
edition of it, however, by Mr. Parg, ac- 
companied by a series of portraits, is al- 
most a new work. It is in five volumes 
octavo. Lord Orford’s plan of giving a 
catalogue only of titled authors has been 
enlarged upon, and short specimens of 
their performances added, somewhat af- 
ter the manner of Cibber’s Lives of the 
Poets. Among the new Authors in the 
Royal List, we find Richard IL, Henry 
Vi., Anne Boleyn, the Princess Eliza- 
beth Queen of Bohemia, Charles II. and 
Frederick Prince of Wales, father to his 
present Majesty. Lord Orford’s appen- 
dix to the posthumous edition of his No~. 
ble Authors could not be transferred to 
the present, on account of purchased 
copyright; so that with that edition Mr. 
Park’s but little interferes, except in the 
correction of inadvertetces, or the inser- 
tion of casual omissions. In regard to 
the sum of his labours, Mr. Park observes, 
that what personal health has permitted, 
and family cares have allowed; what a 
love of literature partly incited to at-’ 
tempt, and what plodding perseverance 
has enabled him to accomplish, is sub- 
mitted with deference to the award of 
candour; not without some apprehension 
of being blamed both for deficiencies and 
redundancies, for having done too hittle 
or :¢00 much, according to individual bias 
for particular characters. Mr. Park com- 
mences his annotations with the preface 
to Mr. Walpole’s first edition, and conti- 
nues them throughout the whole of the 
work. 
The new edition of Mr. CuMBERLAND’S 
“ Memoirs,” in two velunies octavo, is 
accompanied by a Supplement; dated 
Feb. 19th, 18 Among other articles 
of entertai which occur m its con- 
tents, we few comments on the 
Reviewers. “ The friends (says Mr. 
Cumberland), who knew with what hefi- 
tation I yielded to their advice, and un 
dertook this task, can witness that I did 
not expect to make my own immediate 
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