8 DECEMBER 1832, Page 18

POMPEII.

THE press has not in our memory produced a more interesting or a better compiled work than this Pompeii, now completed by the publication of the second volume. By the aid of plate, cut, description, quotation, we are taken back bodily into the midst of the Romans, and not merely to behold them and their temples and their forums as a spectacle, but to the very inmost of their private life. Assuredly "antiquities" never assumed so lively, so agreeable, and so striking a form. The view in the frontispiece, of the forum at Rome as it was, restored by Mr. COCNEREL, is worth the whole price of the volume. There are, however, besides, in the way of illustrations, three engravings on steel and one hundred and fifty-four on wood.