well as those of other eras. The papers on Cornish Churches, on the Polychromy of Swedish Churches in the Middle Ages, and on the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, as well as various others, have, he knows, been read in many quarters with extreme interest; and he has had the advantage of receiving an account of the great Discoveries in Orkney direct from the gentleman at whose charge they were made, whilst some of the most competent Runologists have chosen his pages as the medium for communicating with the learned world on the subject. It is indeed with pride that he alludes to the many distinguished men who are enrolled among his Correspondents. Some, whose names in compliance with their own wish do not appear, keep him correctly informed as to the Proceedings of the various Learned Societies; and relatives or friends constantly supply him with Obituaries of all the most prominent persons as they in turn pass away. This is the co-operation that he has so long experienced, and with which he trusts he shall long be favoured. In consequence of the miscarriage of an additional proof-sheet, some inaccuracies appear in the Memoir of Bishop Mackenzie, at pp. 492-494, which may be thus briefly corrected. The name of the deceased was "Charles Frederic," not "Charles Frazer;" his age was 35, not 36, at the time of his death; and the date of his sailing for the Zambesi was Jan. 12, not Jan. 6, 1861. LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. CORNISH CHURCHES: South Doorway, Cury Church Hagioscope and Exterior of Low Side Window, Cury. Plan of Hagioscope, Cury. Gunwalloe Church Fragment of Font, Gunwalloe Crucifix and Corbel-head, Mullion Tower Stoup, Bench-end, and Arms of the Passion, Mullion Capital and Base of Pier, St. Keverne Church Plan of St. Keverne Church Shields on Bench-ends, St. Keverne Plan of Manaccan Church . Piscina in Transept and Interior of Chancel, Manaccan Hagioscope, St. Mawgan Effigies, St. Mawgan. Shields on Tower, and Keystone, Tower Window, St. Mawgan 265 ib. 539 Window of Chancel and East Window of Aisle, St. Antony. ib. Font, St. Antony Exterior of Low Side Window, Landewednack South Doorway, Landewednack. Shield on North and South Bells, Landewednack 540 ib. 548 549 EGYPT : The Nilometer 133 Pigeon-house on the Banks of the Nile 134 Raft of Pottery, and Portrait of Cleopatra 135 Roof of the Temple, and Water-spout, Dendera Triangular Notching, and Plan of St. Ruan Major Church Two Crosses and Recessed Arch at Phila RICKMAN'S ARCHITECTURE :— Plan and North Elevation of Brixworth Church Capital, Lincoln Cathedral, A.D. 1092; Capital, Norwich PAGE Cathedral, A.D. 1096—1119; Malling Abbey, Kent. . 280 Window from the Hall of the Bishop's Palace at Wells, a.D. 1280-1292; Tower, New College, Oxford, A.D. 1400; Tower, Huish Episcopi, Somerset, c. 1460 East Window of Chancel, St. Mary's Church, Warwick, A.D. Combs, and Shoe of a rare pattern Varieties of the Sickle, and Culinary Vessel Bowls of various sorts, and Fibulæ Varieties of Fibulæ, and Enamelled Button. Cap-shaped and Crescent-shaped Ornaments Four varieties of Torques Part of the Screen of the Chantry of Henry the Fifth. Part of one of the Gates of Henry the Seventh's Chapel Part of the Grille of Henry the Seventh's Tomb. Early English Chests in the Triforium West Front of Wells Cathedral (plate) St. Augustin and his Mother (plate) POLYCHROMY OF SWEDISH CHURCHES:- First Bay of Vaulting from the East End, Rising Church First Bay from the East, Kumbla Church Seal of Edward the Black Prince Penny of Stephen. Tympanum, &c., from the ruined Parish Church of Turriff, MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Kent Archæological Society - Architectural and Archæological Society of Durham and Northumberland Miscellaneous Corre- spondence of Sylvanus Urban-Deed of Gift to the Church of St. Michael's Mount Discovery of the Heart of Charles V. of France, in the Cathedral of Rouen ANTIQUARIAN AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Society of Antiquaries of Lordon, 49; Archæological Institute, 51; British Archæological Association, 55; Numismatic Society, 56; Chester Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society, 57; Royal Institution of Cornwall, 59; Leicestershire Architectural and Archæological Society, 66; Architectural and Archæological Society of Durham and Northumberland, 67; Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 72; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 74; Yorkshire Philosophical Society CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-Coats of Arms in the Churches of Stamford and its Neighbourhood, 77; Teutonic Antiquities St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, 79; Minster, Thanet, 82; The Desecrated Churches of Nor- wich, 84; The Name of Thack well HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS, AND LITERARY NOTICES.- Lewin's Invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar-Smith's Authenticity and Messianic Interpretation of the Prophecies of Isaiah Vindicated-Green's Treatise on the Grammar of the New Testament, 86; Daily Steps towards Heaven - Talbot's Parochial Mission-Women - Reminiscences, Personal and Bibliographical, of Thomas Hartwell Horne, 87; Burn's History of Parish Registers in England- Passages in the Life of a Young Housekeeper-The Cricket Tutor-A Handbook to the Guildhall and to the various Offices of the Corporation of London OBITUARY.-Earl Canning, 100; Lord Willoughby de Broke-Sir James Doughty- Tichborne, Bart.-Sir Benjamin Hawes, K.C.B., 101; The Duke de San Miguel, 103; The Very Rev. J. H. Cotton, 105; The Rev. Henry Penneck, M.A., 106; Dr. Joseph Wolff, 107; Charles Parker, Esq., F.S.A., 109; Richard Wharton NOTICE. SYLVANUS URBAN requests his Friends to observe that Reports, Correspondence, Books for Review, announcements of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, &c., received after the 20th instant, cannot be attended to until the following Month. KENT ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. THE annual meeting will be held at Hythe, under the presidency of the Marquis Camden, on the 10th and 11th July. ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND. THIS Society, whose first meeting is reported at some length in another page, will visit Hexham Abbey Church, on Wednesday, July 23. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN. MR. URBAN,-I have one volume in my set of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE that I never saw in any other, and therefore think it must be rare; perhaps you can tell me. It is called "Miscellaneous Correspondence: containing Essays, &c., on various subjects sent to the author of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE which could not be conveniently inserted at length, or properly abridged:" 1742 -1748; 360 pages.-I am, &c. THOS. BARTON. June 12th, 1862. [Some account of this volume will be found in the "Autobiography of Sylvanus Urban," in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for Feb. 1857, p. 152.] DEED OF GIFT TO THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT. MR. URBAN,-I wish to make a remark on the grant to the abbey of St. Michael's Mount, a copy of which appears in your number for the present month, (p. 747). St. Michael's Mount "in periculo maris" is not the Cornish Mount, but Mont St. Michel in Normandy; the priory at St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, was attached to the Abbey at Mont St. Michel until the for MEANING OF THE WORD MR. URBAN,-In Turner's "Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages," vol. i. p. 25, note, it is asserted by (I presume) the intelligent editor, that "the signification of the word 'torcher' is obscure." But it is still quite common to speak of torching slates or tiles; and by this is meant plastering the under face of them, so as to secure the joints with plastering-mortar. The word 'torch' in this sense evidently comes from the French torcher, to wipe' or 'rub over.' Torchon is a rubber; torchon de paille a handful of straw, such as may be used either in rubbing down a horse or else in thatching a house. Cotgrave, Miege, and Sobrino agree in their definitions of torcher and torchon I hope on some future occasion to furnish you with a list of several words which, like torcher,' in our sense of it, have no place in any so-called dictionary of the English language.-I am, &c. JAMES RAWSON. Lichfield, June, 1862. 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