• New Series of Pompeiana. By Sir WILLIAM GELL. Nos.
I. and II.
The universal interest which the appearance of the first series of this work excited, has been kept alive by the new discoveries that have been subsequently made, the results of which are now in the course of illustration in the progress of this work. The beauty and perfection of the ornaments in the interior of the houses of the buried city of Pompeii, diminish every day after excavation by exposure to the air ; and by the time that the whole city is brought again to light, the greater part of its decorations will have vanished, and their splendour will be only preserved in the work before ns,—which therefore has a double value. We have not space to describe topographically the more recent excava- tions of this interesting city ; for that information we refer the curious to the Work itself,—which is also intended to supply the omissions of the former. The subjects are of equal interest, and the execution of the plates in every respect worthy of its predecessor.
PEEPS AT PRINT SHOPS in our next Number.
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