After the middle of the nineteenth century the use of mourning rings and other memorial jewellery began to die out. The goddess Fashion, who throughout all ages has waged war on the productions of the goldsmith, has laid a heavier hand on these than on any other forms of personal ornament--a circumstance which accounts for the survival at the present day of a comparatively small proportion of the enormous quantity of objects of this description that must formerly have been produced. Most families from time to time have consigned to the melting-pot accumulations of these memorials of their predecessors; and those who have been long in the jeweller's business confess to the hundreds of such relics that they have broken up. It is to be hoped that the present-day revival may lead to the preservation of what remain of these quaint mementoes of our frail mortality. BIBLIOGRAPHY Akerman (J. Y.). _Remains of pagan Saxondom._ London, 1855. Allen (J. Romilly). _Celtic art._ London, 1904. Ashbee (C. R.). See Cellini (B.). _Treatises._ Translated by C. R. A. Aveneau de la Grancière. _Les parures préhistoriques et antiques en grains d'enfilage._ Paris, 1897. Babelon (E. C. F.). _Catalogue des camées antiques et modernes de la Bibliothèque Nationale._ Paris, 1897. Bapst (G.). _Histoire des joyaux de la couronne de France._ Paris, 1889. Barbet de Jouy (H.). _Gemmes et joyaux de la couronne impériale de la Musée du Louvre._ Paris, 1882. Barbot (C.). _Guide pratique du joaillier._ New edition. Paris (1883). Barrera (M^m^e de). _Gems and jewels._ London, 1860. Bartholinus (C. and T.) _C. Bartholini Thom. f. de inauribus veterum syntagma._ Amsterdam, 1676. Barth (H.). _Das Geschmeide. Schmuck- und Edelsteinskunde._ 2 vols. Berlin, 1903-4. De Baye (J.). _The industrial arts of the Anglo-Saxons._ London, 1893. Berlin: Kunstgewerbe Museum. _Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung._ Berlin, 1894. Bierdimpfl (K. A.). _Die Funde aus der Fürstengruft zu Lauingen im bayerischen Nationalmuseum._ Munich, 1881. Bishop (E.). See De Mély (F.). Blanc (C.). _L'art dans la parure et dans le vêtement._ Paris, 1874. English edition. London, 1877. Bloche (A.). _La vente des diamants de la couronne._ Paris, 1888. Bock (F.). _Kleinodien des heil. röm. reiches deutscher Nation._ Vienna, 1864. Bonnaffé (E.). _La collection Spitzer._ Vol. III. _La bijouterie._ Paris, 1891. Boselli (E.). _Gioielleria, oreficeria, oro, argento e platino._ Milan, 1889. Bosellini (C. L.). _Scelta di antichi anelli raccolti da C. L. B._ Parma, 1886. Brewer (J. S.) _Letters and papers of the reign of Henry VIII._ _Public Record Office series._ (Vols. I-IV, edited by J. S. B.) London, 1862. British Museum. _Guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms._ London, 1904. Bucher (B.). _Geschichte der technischen Künste._ Vol II. Ilg (A.). _Goldschmiedekunst._ Berlin, 1886. Buda-Pesth: Exhibition, 1884. _Chefs-d'oeuvre d'orfévrerie._ [By E.