the _Catalogue of the Museum of Mediaeval Art,
collected by the late Mr. Cottingham_, which has been very carefully drawn
up, with a preface by Mr. Shaw, that, if the Family are disappointed in
disposing of the Museum to the Government, or by private contract, it will
be submitted to Public Sale in April next, and a Collection of the most
ample and varied examples of Mediaeval Architecture ever brought together,
which has been formed at a vast outlay both of labour and cost, will be
dispersed, and be thereby rendered inaccessible and valueless to the
architectural student.

The Rev. W.H. Kelke has published some _Notices of Sepulchral Monuments in
English Churches_, a work which is not intended for professed antiquaries,
but for that large class of persons who, although they have some taste for
the subject of which it treats, have neither time nor inclination to enter
deeply into it, and as will, we have no doubt, be very acceptable to those
to whom it is immediately addressed.

We regret to announce the death of one of our earliest and most valued
contributors, Professor T.S. Davies of Woolwich. "Probably few men in
England," says the _Athenaeum_, "were better versed in the methods of the
old geometers, or possessed a more critical appreciation of their relative
merits." His death is a great loss to geometrical science, as well as to a
large circle of friends.

We have received the following Catalogues:--Stacey and Co. (19. Southampton
Street, Strand) Catalogue of Books chiefly relating to History, Commerce,
and Legislation; G. Bumstead's (205. High Holborn) Catalogue of Interesting
and Rare Books on the Occult Sciences, America, Asia, &c.

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