Higgs, P. The electric light in its practical application.

Hitchman, F. The public life of the Earl of Beaconsfield. 2 v.

"He has the patience of the compiler, but lacks the judgment which is required even to handle paste and scissors with discretion. He is full of the fervid admiration of a disciple, without that knowledge of his master's mind which is indispensable to enable him to comprehend its workings. On every word uttered, and every line written by Lord Beaconsfield, is lavished praise indiscriminate." Examiner, Nov. 30. Jackson, Rev. G: A. The apostolic fathers and the apologists of the 2d century. (Fisher, G: Early Christian lit. primers.) Kalidasa. Sakuntala; Schauspiel; übers. von F.

Lexandre, A. Pèlerinage au pays de Brizeux.

"Si vous voulez accompagner M. Lexandre dans son pèlerinage, vous avez le plaisir d'errer sur les grèves nues et âpres, mais d'aspect grandiose, de vous enfoncer dans les chemins creux, de rencontrer le pâtre breton aux longs cheveux vous regardant d'un air étonné, d'entendre dans la petite église abritée sous le feuillage les cantiques très simples, sur le mode mineur, qu'a chantés M. Renan au séminaire de Treguier et qu'il ne peut écouter aujourd'hui encore, nous dit-il lui-méme, 'sans que son cœur se fonde'. Avoir établi de façon positive l'existence de la Béatrix d'Arzanño, c'est avoir rendu service à l'histoire littéraire: le pèlerinage de M. Lexandre n'a donc pas été inutile. Il nous aura valu en outre d'agréa ble descriptions de la Bretagne et de ses mœurs naïves." - Rev. pol. et lit., 12 avril. Lubbock, Sir J: Addresses, political and educational.

"Much slighter than the 'Lectures', both in matter and treatment." - Ath., July 12.

Scientific lectures.

"A condensed account of its subjects, set forth in the most simple, easy, and lively manner." -Ath., July 12. Lyndsay, Sir D: Works; with memoir, notes, and glossary, by D: Laing. 3 v.

"Man's a man for a' that, A."

Marmette, J. Les Machabées de la NouvelleFrance; hist. d'une famille canadienne, 16411768.

Maudsley, H: The pathology of mind.
Metcalf, W. C., ed. Visitations of Essex by

Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570;
Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634;
add., miscel. Essex pedigrees from Harleian
mss., and app. cont. Berry's Essex pedigrees.
Pt. 1. (Harleian Soc. Pub., v. 13.)

Molbech, C. K. F. Ambrosius; a play; from the Danish by A. Berry.

"This drama has enjoyed a success on the stage at Copenhagen which has had no parallel for five or six years. It has become a recognized part of the repertory of the Royal Theatre, and has besides been played with success in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. In a graceful translation by the late Adolf Strodtmann it has been performed in a dozen German theatres." - Sat. rev., May 31.

The hero of this play was a poor student (b. 1705, d. 1758), whose works have been carefully edited by Dr. Barford. "Among all Denmark's old poets there is none more delightful than Ambrosius Stub."-Spectator, June 28.

Morley, J: letters.) "Will not be surpassed in value by any other volume of the series. The best criticism yet published on the life and character of Burke is contained in Mr. Morley's compendious biography. His style is, as in his other works, vigorous and polished, and both his political and personal judgment and his literary criticism are just, generous, subtle, and in a high degree interesting." -Sat. rev., Aug. 16.

Burke. (Morley, J., ed. Eng. men of

My queen. (Appletons' new handy-vol. ser.)
New quarterly mag., Aug.

"Mr. George Meredith, always a quaint, unaccountable, cultivated writer, is at his quaintest in his story 'An episode in the history of Beau Beamish." - Spectator, Aug. 9.

Notes on building construction; arr. to meet the requirements of the syllabus of the Sci. and Art Dept. of the Comm. of Council Educ., S. Kensington. 3 pts.

Osler, W. R. Tintoretto.

Pole, W: The philosophy of music.
Revue des Deux Mondes, 1 août.

on

"The works of this celebrated Hungarian author have held a conspicuous place in Le revue des Deux Mondes for a long time." Am. bookseller.

"A force de tirer le héros en tous sens pour l'ajuster à la mesure de son idée, M. Sacher-Masoch l'a rendu si mince qu'on voit le jour au travers. Pisarenko n'a ni muscles ni os; c'est un être de raison; il fait et il pense ce qui doit être fait et pensé pour démontrer la thèse de l'auteur. En revanche, rien de moins conventionnel que les personnages secondaires: servantes et laboureurs, fermiers et cabaretiers. Ce ne sont plus des abstractions, ce sont des créatures de chair que M. Sacher-Masoch a rencontrées dans la vie réelle et qu'il a reproduites avec beaucoup de relief et de couleur. Les scènes épisodiques lui ont fourni des pages qui compteront parmi ses meilleures." Rev. pol. et lit., 19 avril.

Sauvé, L. F. Proverbes et dictons de la BasseBretagne.

"Le texte est accompagné d'une traduction dans la quelle l'auteur s'est attaché à être scrupuleusement fidèle, tout en conservant à ses copies la physionomie et la couleur des modèles. Les proverbes et dictons ont été recueillis de la bouche même des gens du peuple. Ils constituent le trésor, de la sagesse bretonne, sagesse mélancolique, où la leçon pratique est rarement égayée d'un sourire, et qui se résume dans le dicton suivant: 'Il y a trois maniére de vivre; vivre, vivoter, et miserer'." -Rev. pol. et lit.

Sedjarat malayou.

Légendes et traditions historiques de l'archipel indien; tr. par L. M. Devic.

"Known in the East under the title 'Selalat es Selatin' (Arabic), The genealogy of the Sultans', or 'Sedjarat malayou' (Malay), i. e. "The Malay tree'.

Slowacki, J.

Euvres choisies: Lilla Vénéda; tragédie; trad. franç. en vers, par J. Mien. "Lilla Vénéda, tragédie en cinq actes et un prologue, qui passe pour exprimer fidèlement les doctrines philoso phiques auxquelles Slowacki a dû le surnom de ‘représentant du pessimisme dans la poésie polonaise', par opposition à son rival Mickiewicz, chef des optimistes. Une de ses meilleures pièces, au jugement général. Dans la pensée de Slowacki, les personnages de Lilla Vénéda sont symboliques; l'un represente la fatalité, l'autre l'infortune de la nation; Rosa est la vengence, Lilla personnifie le mythe de l'unité et de l'amitié. Bien fin qui le comprendra. La théorie pessimiste qui éclate, assure-t-on, à chaque ligne du drame n'est pas facile non plus à distinguer, même lorsqu'on est prévenu." - Rev. pol. et lit., 8 juin, 1878. Smith, E: William Cobbett; a biography. 2 v.

"In spite of its length, Mr. Smith's book is completely saved from being dull by the numerous extracts which it gives us from one of the liveliest writers who ever

wielded a pen. Cobbett was anything rather than a 'political saint'. He deserves the title as little as Wilkes or Swift did. He was stiff in his opinions, and could defend them with marvellous skill. But his judgment

was

so frequently blinded by prejudice and passion, that although he assumed with persistent vehemence the name of 'patriot', it is doubtful whether he deserved it better than the editor of the North Briton, or than the author of Drapier's letters. At the same time, his claims to be called an English classic are as indisputable as those of the great Dean himself. His nervous, racy and ever lucid style would be a sufficient passport by itself. But Cobbett's matter is often as good as his manner. His description of rural sights and sounds is nothing less than masterly, and if his inimitable pictures of this kind were removed from the worm-eaten frames of political invective in which they are now set, and were suitably illustrated, we should have a book which, in its own way, would be second to none in the language." Spectator, March 8.

"Cobbett is occasionally too absurd even for Mr. Smith; and so the narrative has not the wearisome character of an unbroken panegyric. When it is said that Cobbett had the command of a style forcible, picturesque, and all his own, that he was never afraid of any one, and that he bearded the Government in bad times, and made a wonderfully good fight against oppression and corruption, all is said that can be said. He was very ignorant, very obstinate, very prejudiced, and very quarrelsome. In fact, he had the virtues and defects of a self-made man. What he had to distinguish him was the felicity of his style and the peculiar direction of his energy. In spite of its force and beauty, his

style, however, has not sufficed to keep his books alive.

If it were not for a few exquisite passages describ ing English rural life and scenery, Cobbett would not be known even by extracts from his works. The main direction of his energies was to plead the cause of the English poor. This was only the main direction; for, as he quarrelled with every one, he was nearly swamped in the floods of his gushing vituperation. But his chief

work was to maintain that much ought to be done for the poor, and that the poor ought to do much for themselves." Sat. rev., Jan. 18.

Spencer, H. The data of ethics.

"His work contains masses of strikingly expressed criticism and illustration of the incoherence of our actual ethical standards. It is certain to form a powerful centre of crystallization for the fluid thought of recent days, and is, it seems to us after this first perusal, decidedly the most noteworthy production of its energetic author." - Nation, Sept. 11. Staats, W: A tight squeeze; or, The adventures

of a gentleman who, on a wager of $10,000, undertook to go from N. Y. to New Orleans in three weeks, without money, as a professional tramp. Stent, G: C. Entombed alive, and other songs, ballads, etc.; from the Chinese.

"Mr. Stent is an indefatigable worker in the field of

Chinese legends. It is not long since he brought out a collection under the title of "The jade chaplet. Very little has hitherto been done in this branch of Chinese literature." Acad., May 31.

"That pieces containing such sentiments should be brought within reach of English readers is a real gain; and, possibly, when we recollect the almost unknown tongue in which they are embalmed, we ought to be more grateful to Mr. Stent than we confess we feel. His skill in the field of poetry is very small. Not only is his metre often very faulty, but his English is wanting in both grace and grammar." - Sat. rev., June 7. Sterndale, R. A. The Afghan's knife. Stokes, H: P. Chronological order of Shakespeare's plays.

Talmud, The; by J. Barclay; with illust.

Select translations from the Mishna, illustrated by translations from the German.

"The best effort of modern times to enable the English reading public to answer for itself the perplexing question, What is the Talmud? His book is not without value as enabling the ordinary reader to estimate somewhat more precisely the difference between the Talmud when seen in the light of common day and under the influence of the roseate hue with which the genius of the late Emanuel Deutsch invested it some ten years ago in a well-known article of the Quarterly review." — Contemp, rev., Apr.

Theuriet, A. Young Maugars.

Treat, M. Chapters on ants. (Harper's half-hour series.)

Tyler, M. C. History of American literature, 1607

1765. 2 v.

"Thoroughness, candor, and care." Lit. world, Oct. Valentini, P. J. J. The Mexican calendar stone;

from the German; Terra cotta figures from Isla Mujeres [by S. Salisbury, Jr.]; Archæological communication on Yucatan by Dr. A: Le Plongeon; Notes on Yucatan by Mrs. A. D. Le Plongeon; comp. and arr. by S. Salisbury, Jr.

Van Laun, H: The French revolutionary epoch.

V.

"Mr. Van Laun means to offer a pleasant narrative rather than a satisfactory explanation of how the epoch became revolutionary. Though he has transferred to his pages the explanations which have been suggested by more inquiring minds, he adds none of his own, and where De Tocqueville, Taine, and Michelet fail him, he not only does not solve difficulties, but does not see that there are difliculties to be solved. Research is not

His

our author's forte any more than philosophy. range of authorities seems small; he knows nothing of any German writers. In this, to be sure, he only followS the example of his French teachers. Almost all alike undertake to relate the conquest of Germany by Napoleon without having read what the Germans themselves have written on the subject, and without the most superficial knowledge of the state of Germany at the time. The names of MM. Lavallée and Lock should perhaps have appeared rather upon the title-page than merely in the preface. As Mr. Van Laun accepts passively M. Taine's views, it is curious to consider how different his book would be if he had had the benefit of them in the period after 1791 as he has in the earlier period. As it is, he begins under the guidance of one who regards the leading actors in the revolution as little better than lunatics, and then comes suddenly under the influence of a set of writers whose theory is irreconcilable with M. Taine's, and henceforth Mr. Van Laun appears as a moderate champion of the Jacobins. The same inconsistency appears in his estimate of Napoleon. It shows an opinion in the act of changing. On one page we find ourselves in the midst of the well-known Napoleonic legend, and Napoleon is everything that is marvellous and divine; on the next we find some bitter paragraph from Michelet, exhibiting him as a vulgar impostor."Athen., March 29.

history of humanity has been a rise, not a fall not a degradation from completeness to imperfection, but a constantly accelerating progress from savagery to culture.' Its enmity is to the system of mythological explanation which bases itself on the observation of atmos pheric phenomena. This is a sentiment which will be leniently judged by many readers, their sympathies having been of late to some extent averted from the 'solar myth' by the pranks which have been played by its indiscreet supporters. There seems, however, to be some danger of the savage becoming as tedious as the dawn has lately proved." - Ath., June 7.

"The controversy as to whether savages represent, on the whole, a state of 'culture' earlier than civilization, or whether they are, as Archbishop Trench chooses to aver, creatures fearfully degraded', is apt not only to rouse angry passions, but subtly to induce men to tamper with evidence. The charm and value of Mr. Farrer's book consist precisely in his avoidance of these snares, and indeed of all useless controversy.". Sat. rec., May 31. Fisher, R: Catalogue of a collection of engravings, etchings, and wood cuts.

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"Mr. Fisher is one of the most accomplished of English connoisseurs; he describes his specimens of German, French, Spanish, and Italian engraving, and supplies beautiful facsimiles. They are selected with rare taste to display at its best the art employed in decorating early printed books, as well as the more developed skill of Marc Antonio, De Musè, G. Bonasone, Martin Schongauer, D'Omutz, Albert Dürer, Burckmair, H. S. Beham, Rembrandt, and other masters. Mr. Fisher has grouped his prints in strict order, school by school, the productions of each master following in the assumed order of their design. Each section is prefaced by a careful and concise digest of the leading facts in the history of the school which it represents; biographical notices of the artists serve as introductions to their works; each example is succinctly described, and its state indicated by a reference to the collection from which it passed into the present owner's hands. It is surprising how great is the amount of information thus imparted. Mr. Fisher's engravings have long been renowned for fineness and rarity."- Athenæum, June 14. Fitzgerald, P. The great canal at Suez; its polit.,

etc., history; with an account of the struggles of its projector, F. de Lesseps. 2 v. Fortnightly review, August.

"Prof. Colvin has an admirable essay on art and criticism.-Dr. Maudsley's thoughtful paper on 'Materialism and its lessons' is deeply interesting."- Exam., Aug.2. Foucart, P. Des associations religieuses chez les Grecs: Thiases, Eranes, Orgeons. Freytag, G. Die Brüder vom deutschen Hause. (Die Ahnen, 3e Abth.)

Die Geschwister. (Die Ahnen, 5e Abth.)

"Though consisting of short, disconnected stories, the series, nevertheless, possesses a connecting link, since it traces from pagan days the fortunes of one family. Besides tracing the progress of culture in an historical novel, Freytag apparently intends to appeal to the patriotism of his countrymen, and thus to unroll before them the history of the struggles and ideas that have culminated in the present Empire and its blood-and-culture' creed. At first we were shown the days of Paganism, in Ingo and Ingraban'; this was followed by its overthrow in 'Das Nest der Zaunkönige'; in 'Die Brüder des deutschen Hauses' the Catholic church was triumphant, and power rested entirely in the hands of the clergy, until these, again, were overthrown by the Protestant ministers in Marcus König'. Here, in 'Die Geschwister', we catch the first indication of the impending eclipse of both by the might of the army, the pride, hope, and joy of modern Germany. For those readers who like to read history seasoned with fiction, Freytag's books are a boon, for they possess the rare merit that their history is careful and correct; while their fiction is, in most cases, equal to, if not above, the average of historical romances," - Spectator, June 7.

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"Deals with the last years of the Thirty Years' War, and admirably shows how the people had become lawless

and reckless from this long warfare, how the land was devastated and neglected, and how an earnest craving for peace gradually arose even in the ranks of the army. The hero of the story belongs to one of the German regiments that had deserted Marshal Turenne, and wandered through the land under leaders of their own choosing, helping to add to the general confusion and misery, though their wish to free themselves from foreign rule and fight for the German cause was laudable. The second story is not so complete in itself as the first. It is more of a family chronicle, showing the state of Germany seventy years or so after the peace, introducing Frederick William 1., Augustus the Strong of Saxony, and, finally, the Seven Years' War in short, more of an historical romance than a novel proper, but, like the former, eminently readable when one has once got over the initial obstacle of Freytag's somewhat dry and inanimate style." Athenæum, Jan. 25.

Frost, T: Life of Thomas Lord Lyttelton.

Secret societies of the European revolution, 1776-1876. 2 v.

Gaspé, P. A. de. Les anciens Canadiens. 2 v. Geary, G., (Editor of the 'Times' of India). Through Asiatic Turkey. 2 v.

"He has put into shape from conversation with the leading men everywhere, and from personal observation, a number of valuable notes on the condition and character of the different races-Arabs, Turks, Chaldeans, Kurds, and Jews, on the government of the country, its resources, and natural features, together with a fair amount of incident and personal adventure." Athenæum, Dec. 21.

Godkin, G. S. Life of Victor Emmanuel 11. 2 v.

"The general story of the reign is told with much clearness and a just sense of proportion, and commendable pains are taken to keep a middle course between excessive hero-worship and its opposite. Miss Godkin, too, is very successful in keeping steadily before her readers the king's own part in all the action of the time." Brit. quar. rev., July.

Grammar of house planning; hints on arranging and modifying plans of cottages, etc.; by an M. S. A. and M. R. A. S. 2d ed.

Graves, A. P. Songs of Killarney. 2d ed.

us.

"These 'Songs of Killarney' are natural music. It is impossible to read them in a dull moment without having the incubus of care removed from the mind. Song itself, in its best sense, seems to be almost dying out amongst With the conviction that the writer of 'Songs of Killarney' is to be classed amongst its renovators, we now part from him, with the desire of finding his talents ripened when next we meet with him." Fraser's magazine, August, 1873.

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"A book of very great beauty and humor, called 'Songs of Killarney', has just come under our notice, all the best part of which is as delicate an embodiment of tender gaiety as it has often been our lot to find. For the poetical humor of the book touches, with just that delicate ease and vivacity which it is so difficult for ordinary mortals to attain, subjects which interest the heart-but it only touches them, and plays with them with a sportiveness that enhances the tenderness of the touch. Irish poetic humor is almost unrivalled, and could hardly be better represented than in 'Songs of Killarney'."- - Spectator, Jan. 3, 1874.

"We have seldom read any poems which are more thoroughly Irish in the best sense."- Athenæum, 1873. Greg, P. The devil's advocate.

The function of the Advocatus Diaboli is to resist the claim of newly-proposed candidates for Romish canonization. Hence the title. The pretensions of a multitude of new ideas, negative and positive, to acceptance as settled dogmas of the intellectual world, are canvassed from every point of view, the speakers being men and women representative not so much of distinct schools of opinion as of diverse types of character, moulded by the several experiences of their respective individual lives and professional careers."

"A curious and very thoughtful book, hardly fairly represented by its title. That it does explain at great

length and with considerable ability what there may be to be said by an ingenious sceptic for several very bad causes indeed, is perfectly true. But then it also explains, perhaps at somewhat less length and with considerable less ingenuity, what there is to be said against them; and now and then, the Devil's advocate of this work, like Mephistopheles occasionally in Goethe's 'Faust', turns out to be a much more effectual counsel for the Creator than for the Devil. But on the whole,

the book is not the book of an advocate on either side, but rather one recording the search after truth of a mind of great vigor and great prejudices.”—Spectator, Jan. 11. Harden, E: J. Life of G: M. Troup. Harrison, J. A.

Spain in profile; a summer among and aloes.

the olives Hazlitt, W: C. Collections and notes, 1867-76. Henderson, R. The soldier of three queens. 2 v. History of a ship from her cradle to her grave; with a short account of modern steamships. 3d ed. Hollingshead, J: Miscellanies; stories and essays.

He

"Mr. Leslie is one of those who are by no means satisfied with the dry formulas of Ricardo. His essays overflow with facts, and interesting and pertinent facts, so that no competent person can read the essays on The distribution and value of the precious metals', or 'The new gold mines and prices in Europe in 1865', on The movements of agricultural wages in Europe', on 'Economic science and statistics', and so on, without becoming a fuller and more cautious economic thinker. ... shows beyond all question that there is no such thing as uniformity of wages in a country. Every diversity of local industry or of climate and soil makes itself felt in a variation of the laborers' average earnings, and yet, strange to say, self-interest and competition do not equalize things as they should do according to the Ricardian formulas. The general outcome of Mr. Leslie's inquiries is more emphatically stated in what we may fairly call his famous essay On the philosophical method of political economy', which is reprinted in this volume.

Ricardo demonstrated so clearly that all laborers must be living at the starvation point; that all men of business must earn the same rate of profit; and that everything must proceed by fixed laws, that statistical inquiry seemed superfluous. His followers have been over-confident in the almost Euclidean certainty of his formulas, until at length such empirical inquiries as those of Mr. Leslie, Prof. Thorold Rogers, M. de Laveleye, and others awaken us to the insufliciency, if not the partial falseness, of the Ricardian hypotheses. But Mr. Leslie is mistaken in supposing that because Ricardo is vulnerable, therefore his method and doctrines must be entirely discarded." — Spectator, June 21.

Liefde, J: B. de. The maid of Stralsund; a story of the Thirty Years' War.

Lounsbury, T: R. History of the English language.

Prof. Lounsbury has published two articles in the Sept. and Oct. nos. of Scribner's mag. in favor of the spelling reform. It may be noticed here that the Utica herald, (the most influential N. Y. paper published out of the city of N. Y.) the Chicago tribune, the Independent and the Home journal have all adopted the new spelling. Low, G: A tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland.

"Nearly one hundred years after the death of the devoted naturalist to whose untiring research and perseverance it is due, this volume is at last allowed to see the light of day. Even during his lifetime it was plundered mercilessly by piratical bookmakers." July 5.

Ath.,

Maccall, W: Foreign biographies. 2 v.
Macmillan's magazine, August.

"The contents are unusually varied and interesting. Prof. Seeley has a brilliant article on history and politics. Many will turn to the lecture on boundaries in general, by the late Prof. Clifford, which exhibits all the marvellous power of popularizing an abstruse subject which that distinguished man possessed in so eminent a degree. Mrs. Chesney advocates in horticulture a new vocation for women."- Exam., Aug. 2.

Mantell, G. A. Pictorial atlas of fossil remains. Melusine, pseud. Moy O'Brien; tale of Irish life. (Franklin Sq. lib.)

"Love-story of Ireland of to-day; characters taken from the educated class; discussion of home rule' and other questions now agitating Ireland.

Mitchell, Maj.-Gen. J: Biographies of eminent soldiers of the last four centuries; ed., with a memoir by L. Schmitz.

Morris, W: The decorative arts; their relation to modern life and progress.

Müller, F: M., ed. Sacred books of the East; tr. by various Oriental scholars. 3 v.

Contents. Vol. 1. The Upanishads; tr. by M. Müller. 2. The sacred laws of the Aryas; tr. by G. Büller. 3. Sacred books of China; tr. by J. Legge.

"Some of the sacred books of the East will, in future, hold a far humbler position in general esteem than has hitherto been the case. The Upanishads do not belong to the earliest stage of the Vedic religion, but they represent to us the fundamental ideas of that relig. ion as finally systematized in the form handed down to us. The general character of the Vedic literature, in its several stages as we have it, is that of a literature of professional priests. It mostly gives the prayers, or rather incantations, that the Brahmans used, and occasionally still use; directions for the ceremonies, and speculations on their meaning." . A. Burnell in Acad., Aug. 9.

Muro, G. La princesse d'Eboli; tr. de l'espagnol par A. Weil.

"The fair fame of Anne de Mendoza, princess of Eboli, whose name and supposed sins one of the bestknown tragedies of modern literature has made familiar to thousands, is tarnished beyond all cure. The names of the princess of Eboli and of king Philip are alike connected, and to the ineffaceable shame of either, with a third name -- that of Antonio Perez, whose paramour she was as certainly as the king was first his accomplice in murder and afterward his unrelenting persecutor. But a belief has long and widely prevailed that king Philip was likewise a lover of the princess, and that it was her coldness towards him which he sought to avenge upon the more favored secretary. Of this belief Muro's monograph seeks to demonstrate the groundlessness. It is to an examination of her career that he has as much as possible confined himself, only passing beyond the limits of his immediate subject when it was unavoidable. To supplement the narrative before us it is therefore necessary to turn to Mignet's well-known monograph on Philip . and Antonio Perez, which, with the lucidity characteristic of its author, narrates a life paralleled in its extraordinary vicissitudes by hardly any other, even in an age so prolific of changes of fortune as the epoch proper of modern European despotism." Sat. rev., Aug. 3, 1878.

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Nohl, L. The life of Mozart; trans. by Lady

Wallace.

"L'ouvrage du Dr. Nohl, revue et complété dans une édition récente, est ce que l'on possède de plus détaillé et de plus agréable sur la vie du maestro. L'ouvrage d'Otto John sur le maître, cette source à laquelle tous les biographes nouveaux doivent puiser, contient plutôt l'histoire de son œuvre que celle de sa vie; celui de M. Pohl, publié en 1867, ne renferme qu'un épisode de la vie de Mozart, mêlé à un épisode semblable de la vie de Haydn: les mémoires rassemblés par le conseiller Nis sen, le mari de sa veuve, ne sont que des matériaux de biographie." - Rev. pol. et lit., 23 août.