AN inventory has just been made of the National Library of France. It contains 2,500,000 volumes. The cabinet of manuscripts includes 92,000 volumes, as well as 144,000 medals of all periods, both French and foreign. The engravings comprise over two millions of plates, preserved in 14,500 vols. and 4,000 portfolios. The more precious volumes, amounting to 80,000, are kept in the reserved gallery. In 1868 24,000 readers attended the reading-room, and in 1883 the number was 70,000. THE _Times_ records the discovery of a Roman villa at Woolstone, in the Vale of the White Horse, Berkshire, where some fine tesselated pavements have been disclosed. Several interments have also been revealed, apparently of the Anglo-Saxon period. The seax or knife dagger is, strange to say, still attached to the girdle of two of the bodies, presumed to be those of Anglo-Saxon ladies. The excavations, which are closed to the general public, were inspected on May 23rd by the members of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society, and the Newbury District Field Club. THE following articles, more or less of an antiquarian character, appear among the contents of the magazines for June: _Art Journal_, “The Western Riviera;” _Cornhill_, “Some Literary Recollections;” _Literary Chronicle_, “Researches for MSS. in the Levant,” and “Contents of the British Museum Library;” _Blackwood_, “New Views of Shakespeare’s Sonnets;” _Army and Navy Magazine_, “Pepys as an Official;” _Eastward Ho!_ “Bethnal-green Museum;” _Cassell’s Magazine_, “The Folk-lore of Colours,” and “A Pilgrimage to Holy Island;” _Magazine of Art_, “Raphael and the Fornarina,” “The Keramics of Fiji,” and “Greek Myths in Greek Art.” A ROMAN family burial-place has been lately discovered during some excavations at Lincoln. It contained a large number of urns, with a furnace or oven at the eastern end. “Unfortunately for the interests of archæology,” writes the Rev. Precentor Venables, “the discovery was made just when the excavators commenced their work, and from their ignorance of the value of the remains much of interest was destroyed before the foreman arrived. The whole of the oven had been demolished, only leaving one reddened wall, indicating the action of intense heat, and the blackened stones of the flue. The burial-place or ‘loculus’ was, however, perfect. It consisted of a stone-chamber, 5 ft. 10 in. in length, its breadth varying from 2 ft. ½ in. at the lower end to 3 ft. 1 in. in the middle.”