The great interest excited by the further discovery in August last, of
tesselated pavements at Cirencester induced Professor Buckman and Mr.
Newmarch at once to issue proposals for a work, descriptive not only of
those beautiful specimens of Roman art, but also of all such other of the
numerous remains found in the same locality as they could satisfactorily
identify. The result was, such a well-filled Subscription List, and such
ready co-operation on the part of those who had collectetd and preserved
such objects, as have enabled these Gentlemen to produce, under the title
of _Illustrations of the Remains of Roman Art in Cirencester, the Site of
Ancient Corinium_, a work which will not only gratify the antiquary by its
details, and the beauty and fidelity of its engravings, but enable the
general reader, without any great exercise of imagination, to picture to
himself the social condition of Corinium when garrisoned by Roman cohorts,
"'Ere the wide arch of the ranged Empire fell."
To the grandeur of form, dignity of character, and great breadth of
treatment exhibited in these Pavements,--Mr. Westmacott, the Royal
Academician, bears his testimony; and the fidelity with which they have
been copied in the valuable work before us reflects the highest credit upon
all parties engaged in its production.
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson (191. Piccadilly) will sell on Wednesday next
an extraordinary Collection of MSS., comprising a cotemporary MS. of
Occleve's Poems, Autograph Poetry of Mary Queen of Scots; Legend of St.
Molaisse, an Irish MS. of the 11th century, &c., and, among other things,
many thousand early Charters, from the time of the Conqueror to the 17th
century.
We have received the following Catalogues:--Charles Dolman's (61. New Bond
Street) Catalogue of Books in various Languages; Supplement E., comprising
many of the works of the Fathers, Ecclesiastical History, &c.; John
Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue, Part CXIII., No. 7. for 1850, of
Old and New Books.
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