NOTICES OF Al{ClIAi:OI>OCJICAL rUHMCATIoNS.

4;i;J beautiful plates is that which pourtrays a 7norsc, a kind of hroocli, eiiriched with tniiishicid cnaiiiel ; the host Hpc-oi- nien probably of tliat pro;;ressivo Btcp in the art, existing in our country. This ia trom Mr. Mngniac's collection, as is also another ornament of the same kind, and decorated with a central roundel of the like enamel ; both these brooches are of the fourteenth century. Of the latter Mr, Shaw has kindly enabled us to give the annexed illustration ; as also the curious little " pricket " candlestick, here ^-- shown, one of a set of six, which for convenience of carriage were contrived to tit one within another. It is, moreover, rcniarkablo as an early instance of the use of a lozenge - shaped heraldic escutcheon, of which another example, with the bearings of Dreux and Cler- mont, was shown by Mr. Hailstone at the April meet- ing of our society, in the present year. — (See p, 207, ante.) V the beautiful initial let- ters, introduced with such happy effect by Mr. Shaw in his various jiublica- tions, he has kindly sup- plied specimens to ac- company this notice. These illustrations of de- corative pahTogrnphy arc not the least intcrtsting feature of his labours. It must be observed, in contlus^ion, that the greater part of the plates are elaborately coloured ; and, beautiful as is the effect of these illustra- tions in the ordinary copies of the work, their brilliancy and perfection is necessarily far greater in the more highly finished copies, of which a few- have been provided of a larger size. In the introductory text will be found an interesting summary of the History of tho.sc decorative processes which are so tastefully exemplified in this attractive volume.