394 RECENT AKCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS,

Annuaire de l'Institut des Provinces etdes Congees Scientifiques. 12rao. Paris, chez Deiaclie, Rue du Bouloy, No. 7. [This little and cheap work gives an account of this institution and all the learned Societies in the Departments of France.] Definition Elejientaire de quelques Tebjies d' Architecture, par M. de Caumont. 8vo. 161 pages. Paris, chez Derache, Eue du Bouloy, No. 7. [This is a little work of similar intent to that of Mr. Parker's " Glossary of Architecture."] Du feu Gregeois, des feux de Guerre et des Origines de la Poudre a Canon, d'apres des textes Nouveaux, par M. M. Reinaud et Fave, 8vo. pp. 288, avec atlas de 17 planches. Observations Historiques et Geographiques sur l'Tnsceiption d'une borne MiLLIAIRE QUI EXISTE A TuNIS ET SUR LA VOIE RoMAINE DE CaRTHAGE A Tevesa, par M. Letronne. Paris, brochure, in 8vo. Orderici Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Collatione et Animadver- sioNiBus AuGusTi Le Prevost. Tom. iii. Paris, chez Renouard et Co. 1845. 8vo. pp. 624. Publie par la Societe de I'Histoire de France. HiSTOiRE DE Rennes, par M. M. de Villeneuve, et de Maillet, Bibliothecaire de la Ville de Rennes. Rennes, chez Morembe, 1845, 8vo. pp. 547, avec 2 plans. GERMAN. MiTTHEILUNGEN DES KoNIGL. SaCHSISCHEN VeEEINS FUR ErFORSCHUNG UND Erhaltung der Alterthuemer. Dresden, bei Walther. 8vo. 160 pages, with plates. Sendschreiben an die Freunde Kirchlicher Alterthuemer im Konigreiches Sachsen. Dresden, bei Blochmann. 12mo. 44 pages, with 4 plates. [A useful book of instructions for describing churches, addressed to members of the Saxon Antiquarian Society.] Wien's Kaiserliches Zeughaus zum ersten MALE, VON Fr. von Leber. Leipzig, bei Koehler. 8vo. 525 pages, with 2 plates. [This is an excellent Catalogue Raisonne, with an Appendix of Essays on the uses of certain parts of armour not yet well determined. It has also a well-arranged list of extracts from Inventories and other documents relative to armour of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with similar intent to a work published also at Leipzig (but which we have never seen) entitled " Rustung-Worterbuch."] Die Ritterburgen Rauheneck, Schakfeneck, und Rauhbnstein, von Fr. von Leber. Wien, bei Braumiiller. 8vo. 330 pages, with 10 plates. [Thfs is a history and detailed description of some Castles near Baden in Austria, with an account of Tournaments.] BucHLEiN VON DER FiALEN. Trier, bei Linz. [This is a reprint from a little work on architectural pinnacles, published in 1486, l)y Rorizer, an architect of Ratisbon ; edited, with an appendix, by M. Reichensperger, of Treves, and illustrated with 26 figures.]