ed complete in itself;
each county can be bound up by itself; or the whole alphabetically,
gazetteer-wise.

The index will be also in three divisions,--i. general; ii. names of
places; iii. names of persons.

With regard to the number of volumes,--I need not say that that is entirely
_in nubibus_. My impression is limited to seventy-five copies, the same as
my father's _Oxfordshire_, with which it corresponds in size.

I should have preferred seeing the government performing the task of
preserving manuscripts of all existing monuments; but it is the fashion in
Britain for government to leave all apparently national undertakings to
individual exertion. I will here conclude with a quotation from the report
I have just published of the Transactions at the Congress of the British
Archaeological Association held in Worcester:

"Lamentation is, however, worse than useless: the spirit of the age
forbids all idle mourning. If we would awaken a sympathy and interest
in our pursuits, we must gird up our loins like men, and be doing, and
that right earnestly; for it is hopeless any longer waiting for the
government, as a 'Deus ex machina,' to help us to rescue our
antiquities from destruction."

ALFRED JOHN DUNKIN.

Our next is from a correspondent (who has favoured us with his name)
who proposes a scheme almost more extensive than that advocated by MR.
DUNKIN, but who differs from that gentleman by recognising the
necessity of combined endeavour to carry it out.

A few years since I propounded a scheme for an _Ecclesiologicon
Anglicanum_, or record of the history, not only architectural and
monumental, but also local and traditional, of every parish in England.
Though I had long conceived such a design, I must confess myself indebted
to some excellent remarks on the subject which appeared in the
_Ecclesiologist_ (New Series, No. x., April 1846). Fully aware that so
stupendous a work could never be accomplished by any single individual, I
compiled a prospectus of my design, and invited the co-operation of all
antiquaries. I proposed to publish at intervals, and in alphabetical order,
the parishes of every county, and by dividing the labour among different
coadjutors, and giving to each a separate branch of inquiry, thereby
insuring, by successive revisions, a certainty of correctness, I hoped to
succeed in the undertaking. My project was, however, laid aside by reason
of other engage