In the American war many British soldiers, it was said, walked
about without their _scalps_, but not without their heads.
SANDVICENSIS.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
No one branch of antiquarian study has been pursued with greater success
during the last few years than that of Gothic Architecture; and, to this
success, no single work has contributed in any proportion equal to that
of the _Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic
Architecture_. Since the year 1836, in which this work first appeared,
no fewer than four large editions, each an improvement upon its
predecessor, have been called for and exhausted. The fifth edition is
now before us; and, we have no doubt, will meet, as it deserves, the
same extended patronage and success. When we announce that in this fifth
edition the text has been considerably augmented by the enlargement of
many of the old articles, as well as by the addition of many new ones,
among which Professor Willis has embodied a great part of his
_Architectural Nomenclature of the Middle Ages_; that the number of
woodcuts has been increased from eleven hundred to seventeen hundred;
and lastly, that the Index has been rendered far more complete, by
including in it the names of places mentioned, and the foreign synonyms;
we have done more to show its increased value than any mere words of
commendation would express.
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