Adams, H. Documents relating to New-England

federalism, 1800-15.

American almanac and treasury of facts, statistical, financial, and political, for 1878; ed. by A. R. Spofford.

Barkley, H. C. Bulgaria before the war, [1864-73]. "After writing one book on Bulgaria, which met with a certain success, Mr. B. has now written another, which, contrary to the ordinary rule in such cases, is better than the first."- Athen.

"Although the beginning of his seven years' experi ences dates back so far as 1864, we do not fancy that that highly conservative country had changed greatly before the outbreak of the war. His unpretending little work is only indirectly political, but he necessarily saw a great deal of the natives in the discharge of his duties as a railway engineer.” Satur. reo.

Richard Hooker.

Benj.

Barry, A. Masters in English theology; being the King's College lectures for 1877. Contents. Historical preface. Church, R. W. Lancelot Andrewes. Plumptre, E. H. William Chillingworth. Westcott, B. F. Whichcote. Jeremy Taylor. Farrar, F. W. Cheetham, S. John Pearson. "These belong to that period (1558-1662) which may be said to have gradually established the position-in some sense unique in Christendom-of the Church of England. They were originally selected, not simply for their intrinsic greatness, but as being fairly representative of different schools of thought." - Preface. Blackie, Prof. The natural history of atheism.

"The most instructive part of his book is his chapter on Buddhism, in which he sketches with great care and ability the religious physiognomy of that strangely popular faith, and draws out its very curious analogies with the agnosticism of John Stuart Mill and the other professors of scientific doubt." - Spectator. Blackmore, W. D. Erema; or, My father's sin.

(In Cornhill, Nov. 1876, etc., and Harper's mag., Jan. 1877, etc.)

"The plot pure and simple is of what is called the strong, not to say coarse melodramatic order. It would make a capital play. But the downright violence, so to speak, of the story itself, and the staring contrasts of the scenery and the characters, produce a peculiar effect." Contemporary reo.

"Mr. Blackmore's style is as faultless as ever. There is the same deliberate luxuriousness of expression, the same cultured grace and quiet humor that we have found in his former works; but it is not the flowers by the roadside that make a landscape, nor will the most excellent verbiage [!] compensate in a story for the lack of the grander elements of plot and passion." — R. O. Masson in the Acad.

"In some respects we consider 'Erema' his finest work." Westminster rev.

Bousquet, G. Le Japon de nos jours et les échelles de l'extrême Orient.

Bousquet is for Japan what Wallace is for Russia and Baker for Turkey, except that he writes with ease, grace, and in a picturesque style. The author was for 4 years consulting counsel to the French embassy, and his facts were perseveringly sought and are well arranged. Bryce, J. (author of "The Holy Roman Empire".)

Transcaucasia and Ararat, a tour in 1876. "Possesses the genuine genius for noting down what is worth noting and recognizing the leading and remarkable features of the country through which he passes. Nothing gives a better example of his merits as a traveller, and at the same time of the great impor tance of what may be termed obvious observations, than Mr. Bryce's comparison between Russia and the U. S., [the huge distances, the vast scale of the rivers, lakes, and forests, the abundance of raw material, the want of finish, culture, and elegance, the absence of past history, the inevitable speculations as to the future]. For moun tain-climbers his account of his very spirited ascent of Mt. Ararat [in which he was deserted by his attendant Turks and Cossacks] will form the main charm of his book." Nation.

"Very few persons have accomplished the ascent of Mt. Ararat, and the natives have a rooted belief that no human being since the days of the patriarchs has ever stood on the top of it. An entire chapter is devoted to a description of the wonderful mountain, an account of the traditions which attach to it, and of the superstitious reverence in which it is held."

Champney, Mrs. L. W. Bourbon lilies.

"A story of artists' life at Ecouen near Paris and the loves of the painters, told with much simplicity and directness, and an exquisite sense of beauty of color." Cook, J. Orthodoxy, with preludes on current

events.

Costa de Beauregard, marq. A. Un homme d'autrefois; souvenirs.

"In French the 'Reminiscences' have something of the charm that belongs to such books as the 'Récit d'une sœur'; in their English dress this charm wholly disappeared." T. H. Ward in Acad. Coutance, A. L'olivier, histoire, botanique, etc. "One of those beautiful monographs which the French do so perfectly." Daudet, A.

Le petit chose; histoire d'un enfant. Lately republished with the title 'Histoire d'un enfant'. The Rev. d. D. Mondes says of the new edition "Félicitons M. Daudet d'avoir rendu à sa destination première une de ses œuvres les plus charmantes, l''Histoire du petit-chose', qui est redevenue, moyennant quelques suppressions, un vrai livre pour la jeunesse." The Nabob; from the French, by L. H. Hooper. De Fonblanque, E. B. Lives of the Lords Strangford.

"There are very few peerages dating from the begin. ning of the 17th century whose rise, decline, and fall exhibit so dramatic a completeness as that of Strang. ford, or which excite so much interest by the strongly. marked characters and misfortunes of the line."- Exam.

"Mr. Fonblanque, throughout his book, never really explains, he hardly ever really tells, anything. The greater part of the volume is a chaos of scraps. Many of those scraps indeed take the form of letters which are well worth preserving; but of anything like the biographer's skill in weaving the scraps together into some kind of whole Mr. Fonblanque shows no sign whatever." Sat. rev.

"The volume apparently owes its existence to the three Lords Strangford of our own day, all men of mark, of varied gifts, and still more varied character.

...

The principal digression consists of the correspondence of Endymion Porter, who. though only in the third rank of statesmanship, is none the less one of the most characteristic figures in the annals of his time." Athenæum.

Dumont, L. Théorie scientifique de la sensibilité ; le plaisir et la peine. 2e éd.

"On y trouve un historique des théories du plaisir depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nous, auquel nous ne voyons rien à comparer: une classification des émotions, contestable peut-être, mais systématique et originale; de jolies analyses des sentiments esthétiques; une ingénieuse explication du rire." Quoted from a good sketch of Dumont's life and doctrine, by M. H. Marion in Rev. pol. et lit., 1877, p. 25-32.

Durier, C. Le Mont-Blanc.

Ce beau volume est probablement l'ouvrage le plus complet sur le Mont-Blanc qu'on puisse offrir aux gens du monde. C'est avec un intérêt vivant, passionné, que M. Durier raconte tous les exploits et toutes les catastrophes dont le Mont-Blanc a été témoin. Si nous lisons ce beau volume comme une étude, nous sommes surpris d'y trouver tant de plaisir; — comme un ouvrage Rev. pol. d'agrément, tant de science et de sérieux." et lit. Fornander, A. Account of the Polynesian race; its origin and migrations, and the ancient history of the Hawaiian people to the times of Kamehameha 1. Vol. 1.

The author considers himself qualified by "34 years' residence in the Hawaiian group, numerous journeys

through every section of it, a knowledge of the language, and the possession of the greatest collection of Hawaiian lore in or out of the Pacific, to unveil the past national life of the Polynesian people and to pick up the missing links that bind them to the foremost races of the world, -the Arian and the Cushite". But the Sat. rev. makes very merry with his Cushite theories. "He has long been absent from Europe and has had to form his opinions by the aid of books not always fortunately se

lected."

Fortnightly rev. for Feb.

Note Saintsbury's paper on Cherbuliez, Symonds' on Florence and the Medici, and Huxley's on Wm. Harvey, the last. "a luminous, brilliant article full of hard hitting and plain speaking, and marked by a reach of historical learning and an appreciation of the work of the men of long ago that is rarely found in conjunction with those other gifts of a scientific mind". Acad. Frothingham, O. B. Gerrit Smith. A biography.

"As a business-man he ranked among the most sagacious and successful of his time; as a philanthropist he came as near fulfilling the ideal of Christian charity as any man, perhaps, who has ever lived; with a princely income he lived like a simple farmer, and literally gave it all away or expended it in ways which profited others quite as much as or more than himself; and as a reformer he was undoubtedly one of the most powerful of those forces which shaped, even if they did not produce, the recent political and social upheaval." - - Appleton's jour

"There is hardly any conceivable plan for the improvement of the human race that experience shows to be wildly visionary and impracticable that did not at one time or other ineet his approval." N. Amer. rev. Glynne, Sir S. R. Notes on the churches of Kent.

312 churches built before the Restoration. "It mattered little to what extent successive modifications had interfered with the original design of the church; Sir S. Glynne would at once, as if by instinct, read its architectural history."

Gobineau, J. A., comte de. La Renaissance;

scènes.

"A careful and comprehensive study of the Italy of the 16th century; in a series of historical scenes wherein he makes all the great personages of the time, Savonarola, Cæsar Borgia, Julius II., Leo X.. and Michelangelo pass in review before us. I do not know whether readers little versed in the historical facts would find these scenes sufficiently clear and intelligible, or whether they could readily appreciate the subtlety of the psychological observations and the accuracy of the drawing; but the well-informed reader takes genuine delight in them." - Acad.

Gray, A. Z. Mexico as it is; a recent tour.
Green, J. R. Short history of the English people.

"Mr. Green, about three years ago, had the rare fortune to write a book that everybody read; scholars acknowl edged his learning, his breadth of view, and his grasp of his subject; the world in general, finding that he had strewed the path of history with flowers, read his book simply because it was interesting. Though the materials of the earlier book have been worked into this, and though we recognize many of the most brilliant passages as old friends, still the arrangement is so altered, and the amount of fresh matter is so large, that it is sub. stantially a new work. History in these days is one of the most progressive of sciences, and Mr. Green deserves great credit for the readiness with which he has assimilated new information, and for the frank and unhesitat ing manner in which he has withdrawn from untenable positions." - Sat. rev.

The whole book is rearranged, its plan is made more systematic, the narrative is more continuous, the

style is chastened, errors are corrected, many of Mr. Green's peculiarities in the division of his subject have been abandoned, and the whole book wears a greater aspect of sobriety and maturity both of thought and style. Yet we should still have been glad of more staidness of expression. It makes us feel uneasy to read of such incessant excitement and emotion as Mr. Green's characters indulge in. They do not talk nor walk like ordinary folk, but behave like heroes of melodrama on the stage. They 'cry', 'shout', 'exclaim passionately', hurry', 'fling themselves', and so on. He has read and assimilated the results of all the labours of students during the last half-century in the field of English history, and has given them a fresh meaning by his own independent study. It is so good that we cannot but regret that it is not a little better. If it had added to its merits of forcible and pictorial writing the artistic quality of reserve, it might have won its way to being reckoned as one of the English classics. If it had added to its power of imaginative arrangement philosophic conception of historical progress. it might have exercised a more lasting influence on popular thought. As it is. the pictorial element overmasters the philosophic." Examiner.

Greg, S. A layman's legacy; and a brief memoir. "I have rarely met with a man so profoundly penetrated with the true sentiment of religious veneration. That of which others talked, he felt. This intensely Christian conviction was the more remarkable from the delight which he took in every effort of bold and free inquiry in the wide range of Biblical speculations." - Pref. letter by A. P. Stanley.

Groth, K. Ut min Jungsparadies; dree Vertelln. Contents. Min Jungsparadies.

heid. De höder Mael.

"A genuine work of art." — Acad.

Vun den Lütten

Hunter. Statistical account of Bengal. 20 v.

Dr. Hunter in 1869 drew up, under the orders of Gov ernment, six series of leading questions, illustrating the topographical, ethnical, agricultural, industrial, admin. istrative, medical, and other aspects of an Indian dis trict, which might serve as a basis for the investigations throughout all India. On this plan the materials have been collected, and these 20 volumes contain the results of the Statistical Survey of the 48 districts of Bengal, an area of close on 200,000 square miles, and a popula tion of 62,867,467 souls. Each volume proceeds on a uniform plan. dealing with the same subjects in the same order of sequence, and as far as possible in the same words.

Hymans, L. Types et silhouettes.

"J'ai tâché de présenter sous une forme anecdotique Je talbeau de certains groupes de la société belge, qui a son caractère spécial comme toutes les sociétés connues." · Prejace.

Jackson, W. The doctrine of retribution philosophically considered. Bampton lect., 1875. An emphasis is to be placed on the word philosophi cally in this title. The author also aims at something higher than his title intimates. "For, if the facts of our moral nature distinctly point to a finality of retribution, they must also prove the reasonable truth of certain religious beliefs which transcend man's present existence and constitute a natural religion.” — Introd. Jonge, J. K. J. de. The Barents relics; trans.

Willem Barents was frozen into the Ice Haven in Novai Zemblai in 1596 and kept there all winter in great cold. poverty, and griefe'. In 1871 Capt. Carlsen by chance discovered Barents' house that had been untouched for 274 years, and in 1876 Mr. C. Gardiner brought away all the relics, which are described in this book, and gave them to the Danish government.

See De Veer's Voyages of Barents lately published by the Hakluyt Soc.

"Very unequal. The authoress never seems to have fairly made up her mind whom she intends to imitate." Westminster rev.

Kingsley, Rev. C. All Saints' day and other sermons; ed. by W. Harrison.

"These sermons were written out very roughly sometimes at an hour's notice, as occasion demanded and were only intended for delivery from the pulpit." - Pref. note.

Lecky, W. E. H. century.

History of England in the 18th

"It has been my object to disengage from the great mass of facts those which relate to the permanent forces of the nation, or which indicate some of the more enduring features of national life. The growth or decline of the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the democracy of the Church and of Dissent; of the agricultural, the manufacturing, and the commercial interests; the increasing power of Parliament and of the press; the history of political ideas of art, of manners, and of belief; the changes that have taken place in the social and economical condition of the people," etc.- Prefuce. "The best known histories of the 18th century are those of Smollett, Belshain, and Ld. Stanhope. None ranks among English classics. If Ld. Stanhope's be superior to the others it is chiefly because its author had access to materials at once new and valuable. No picture of the reign of Q. Anne is both so vivid and true as the one to be found in the romance of 'Esmond'. Lecky's volumes are of surpassing merit. The student of history will find them replete with interest, but the ordinary reader will consider them somewhat hard to understand. They contain too much disquisition and too little story. Two closely printed volumes of 1220 A break in the pages reach to the death of George II. arrative, covering about 500 pages, is devoted to the affairs of Scotland and Ireland, designed as an antidote to Mr. Froude's English in Ireland'." Among the interspersed disquisitions is one on Lord Stanhope's remarks on Whigs and Tories (in which Lecky says that stupidity is naturally Tory and folly naturally Liberal"), and another on government patronage of literature, (which is defended against Herbert Spencer), and a third on the importance of having young men in Parliament. Lecky avoids" as much as possible discussing the personalities of history, except so far as they illustrate the political character and tendencies of the time', preferring the task of accumulating and marshalling facts to that of representing as in a mirror the generations that have passed away. But in his two best chapters he follows nis old manner, the one which treats of national tastes and manners, and the one which depicts the religious revival of the 18th century."- Ath., Jan. 26.

"A fluent and facile narrative of the principal histori cal events of the age, and a luminous survey of its social aspects. Great part of the second volume is occupied by a review of the condition of Ireland during the Fortperiod of unmitigated Protestant ascendancy.". nightly rev.

Linton, E. L. The world well lost.

"Mrs. Linton is an able woman, and her new novel is an able book; indeed, it is, to our thinking, the most finished tale she has written. The plot has been carefully contrived, the characters are sedulously elaborated, the dialogue is good, the descriptions are full of point and vigour, and the reader's interest is kept up to the end. But to Mrs. Linton, with all her ability, has been denied the gift essential to a novelist of the highest class, a gift which is natural, not acquired, and which women inferior in talent and knowledge to Mrs. Linton have possessed, - that of creative power." - Athen.

Luebke, W. Outlines of the history of art; ed. by Clarence Cook.

This is translated from the 7th German ed., which has the author's latest revision and additions, and contains valuable notes by Mr. Cook, especially a chapter on the Di Cesnola discoveries and their contribution to the early history of art.

"The American translation of Professor Lübke's 'Outlines' is not quite satisfactory. There is little fault to be found, indeed, in the matter of style; but occasionally the meaning of the author has been missed, and the technical terms, especially in that part of the work which relates to the architecture of antiquity, are Scribner's. very frequently incorrectly rendered." McLaughlin, M. L. China painting; manual for the decoration of hard porcelain.

"Entirely practical. Almost her only disquisition, which it is to be hoped may be heeded, is an insistence -Atlantic. upon the indispensable use of drawing." Manning, H. E., Cardinal Archbp. of Westminster. True story of the Vatican Council. Republished from the 19th century. "A clear and concise narrative" of the circumstances which led to the convoking of the Council, the history of the dogma of infallibility, the assembling and opening of the Council, and the couspiracy formed by certain German professors and European statesmen against it. The last chapter replies accisively to the strange misconceptions which popular prejudice has raised against this last solemn act of the Catholic Church."- London Tablet (Catholic) Mind. Vol. 1, 2.

"We get fewer contributors from among thinkers of the school of Kant or Hamilton than thinkers of the school of Hume or Mill. But though Mind might, having regard to the character of the articles in it, be almost as accurately called Brain, since it certainly deals almost as much with the nervous as with the psychological phenomena which throw a light on the nature of man, seldom, indeed, do we find in it an article which is not able of its sort, and which fails to inspire respect for the intellectual force of the writer." - Spectator. Letters from Russia; Moltke, H. C. B., Graf von.

trans. by G. Bigelow. Count von Moltke attended the coronation of the present Emperor of Russia in 1856. Moore, T.

Prose and verse, humorous, satirical, and sentimental, hitherto inedited; with notes by R. H. Shepherd.

"Scrapings and sweepings. The verse comes first, and is no better than the verse of thousands of children. The 'Satirical and humorous poems', which follow, were rejected by Moore when he collected his poetical works, for the very good reason that without one exception they are absolutely worthless. The next section contains 'Contributions to the Edinburgh review, 1814-34'. We At never saw such doleful specimens of padding. p. 343 comes the first really inedited work, The chapter of the blanket', which is bright and humorous, and the sentimental passages are written prettily, in a faded style. Then follow thirteen unpublished letters."

Exam.

Newcomb, S. Popular astronomy.

"Its object is to present the general reading public with a condensed view of the history, methods, and results of astronomical research, especially in those fields which are of most popular and philosophic interest at the present day, couched in such language as to be inThe historic telligible without mathematical study.

and philosophic sides of the subject have been treated with greater fulness than is usual in works of this char. acter; the purely technical side has been proportionately condensed. Secchi, Faye, Young, and Langley have presented brief expositions of their theories in the Preface. chapter on the sun in their own language." Northcote, Sir J. Notebook; containing memoranda of proc. during the 1st sess. of the Long Parliament, 1640; from the ms. original; ed., with a memoir, by A. II. A. Hamilton.

"Sir John's Notes are curious rather than important. They will have a special interest for the Northcote family, but do not supply us with much new light on the history of the eventful period during which they were taken." - Tablet.

Page, H. A. Thoreau, his life and aims.

Not a very satisfactory book. A mosaic of passages from the works of Thoreau and from those of his biographers, framed in a rhapsody of Mr. Page's own. But quotation tempered by eulogy is not exactly what we understand by the higher criticism; and so poorly constructed is Mr. Page's study, that he gives the reader no means of distinguishing Thoreau's articles from his books, and omits to give any dated list of the latter.". Exam.

Poole, S. L. Life of Edw. W. Lane.

Lane was the author of a Description of Egypt said to be admirable but as yet unpublished; "Modern Egyptians" of which 70,000 copies were sold; the best version of the "Thousand and one nights"; and an "Arabic lexicon", published at the cost of the Duke of Northumberland. The diary of Lane's second visit to Egypt is here given almost entire.

Quarterly rev.

The most noteworthy article in the Jan. number is Matthew Arnold's "A French critic [Scherer] on Goethe", a companion to the celebrated review of the same critic's estimate of Milton which Mr. Matthew Arnold wrote last year. The article is reprinted in Littell's liv. age, Feb. 23. Ranke, L. von. Denkwürdigkeiten der Staatskanzlers Fürsten v. Hardenberg.

"A most instructive and important contribution to the history of modern Europe. They throw a clear and unimpeachable light on the greatest transactions in which Prussia was engaged during the wars with France and Napoleon, more especially on the treaties of Basel, Schönbrunn, and Tilsit. They are perfectly authentic, while the Memoires d'un homme d'état', falsely purporting to be written from Hardenberg's papers, are not."- Edinburgh rev.

"Ranke has perhaps surpassed most of his previous efforts," yet the work "is painfully bare of rhetorical embellishment, anecdote, and illustration”. Rose, Hugh James. Among the Spanish people.

"The majority of those who have written upon Spain since Ford's scholarly handbook have laboured under ignorance of the language of the people. Hence it is that so many eulogies have been lavished on the beauty of the country while the people, rulers and ruled, have always been castigated after the fashion set by Ford half a century since. Ford's antiquated lay figure is still accepted by many as the living Spaniard. The present book is an English clergyman's experiences amongst the peasantry with whom he lived and was able to converse in their own patois. His style is plain, and in some chapters even bald, but the wealth of orig inal matter quite outweighs any defect of style. Every page of the book is of interest." - Athen.

Schliemann. Mycenæ.

An article in the Nation, Feb. 7, 14, maintains the heroic origin of the treasures of Mycenæ, but calls the heroic age "an indefinite period before the Dorian invasion". There is a review by Prof. L. R. Packard in the New Englander for March.

Troy and its remains.

Fraser for Feb. contains 'A visit [in 1875] to Dr. Schliemann's Troy', by W. C. Borlase, which is important as giving the testimony of an evidently careful observer, and showing how misleading is the enthusiastic exaggeration (to say the least) in Schliemann's books and letters.

Société russe, La; par un Russe; trad. par E. Figurey et D. Corbier, avec une introd. de A. Proust. 2 v.

Attributed to Oblomof Gutcharof. Contents. Vol. 1. La société de Saint-Pétersbourg. - Le prince Gortchakoff. — Le général Ignatieff. — Le comte Schouwaloff. - Walouïeff. Le comte Protassoff. Les comtes Adlerberg. Les frères Miliou. tine. - La grande-duchesse Hélène. Les frères et les

fils de l'empereur. -La comtesse Antoinette Bloudoff. Le prince de Bismarck à Saint-Pétersbourg. 2. Les trois Tourguénieff. Nos Le haut fonctionnarisme. ministres de l'instruction publique. Pouschkine et Dantès. Les sciences en Russie.- La littérature et les hommes de lettres sous l'empereur Nicolas. Ecrivains et journalistes.

Staal de Launay, Mme. de. Memoirs; tr. by S. Bathurst.

"The memoirs are divided into three parts - convent, Bastille, and the household of the brilliant, intriguing, and conspiring duchess of Maine. But in all three love reigns supreme, and the curtain falls, as in most comedies, upon a marriage." - Athenæum.

Grimm "declared that, save the prose of M. de Voltaire, Mdme. de Staal's was the most agreeable with which he was acquainted". First pub. in 1875. Sterndale, R. A. Seonee, or, Camp life on the Satpura Range.

"A book about sport and natural history in Central India, with graphic sketches of scenery and native life, connected by a slight thread of story."- 19th cent.

The incidents are all personal experiences of the author and his friends.

Torrens, W. T. M. Memoirs of Visc. Melbourne.

For study the history has an exasperating paucity of dates, and the author's estimate of the hero's merits is thought to be greatly exaggerated; but the work "contains a deal of valuable matter and of animated, eloquent writing. Lord Melbourne was a high-bred, high-minded, highly-cultivated, thoroughly English statesman." (Quar. rev) There is an interesting life of Lady Caroline Lamb, and a sketch of Lord Melbourne's relations with the Hon. Mrs. Norton.

Tourneur, Cyril. Plays and poems; ed. by J. C. Collins. 2 v.

"Works more faulty in construction, more inadequate in execution, more strained or hysterical in emotion than Tourneur's tragedies can scarcely be found; and yet we read his two tragedies again and again; we are powerless to resist the spell of his barbaric harmonies, and we are forced to admit that he knew, in spite of his crude affectations, the right way to purge the soul with pity and terror." — E. W. Gosse in Acad.

Swinburne speaks of his "unquenchable and burning fire, the bitter ardor and angry beauty of his verse", and his "keenness and mastery of passionate expression". And Charles Lamb allows him "supreme tragic excellence".

Viollet le Duc, E. E. Le massif du Mont Blanc, sa constitution géodésique et géologique, ses transformations et ses glaciers.

"An important contribution to our daily increasing knowledge of the ice theory, and of its bearings on the present aspects of mountainous districts." - Brit. quar.

rev.

Wright, C. Philosophical discussions.

There is an interesting account and estimate of Wright by John Fiske in the Radical rev. for Feb. Yriarte, C.

Venise.

"Depuis plusieurs années déjà M. Yriarte a vécu à Venise et de la vie de l'antique Venise. Il étudie successivement son origine, le développement de sa puissance, l'organisation de son gouvernement, l'histoire de l'architecture, de la peinture, de la sculpture, des monuments publics les plus importants, des cérémonies solennelles, qui jouaient un si grand rôle dans la vie vénitienne. L'arsenal, le commerce, la navigation, l'industrie du verre, celle de la mosaïque si intimement mêlée an développement artistique, l'industrie des dentelles, les archives, l'imprimerie, tout cela possède son chapitre spécial. Il fouille les manuscrits et les incunables pour y découvrir des gravures curieuses, les musées pour y emprunter des médailles ou des objets d'art inconnus." Rev. pol. et lit.

The Librarian calls the attention of those who are annoyed that the books in their private libraries will not stand upright upon unfilled shelves to the book. supports now used in the Athenæum.

Adams, W. D. Dictionary of English literature.

His plan is to give the name of every author of any note, together with the chief facts in his life, and an account of his work; to give also, under separate headings, the names of these works, the principal characters in poetry and fiction, familiar quotations, first lines of poems and songs, noms de plume. Boston almanac and business directory, 1878. Brandt, H. von. Souvenirs d'un officier polonais; scènes de la vie militaire en Espagne et en Russie, 1808-12; [tr. par A. A. Ernouf].

An abridged translation by the baron A. A. Ernouf of vol. 1 of "Aus dem Leben des Gen. H. von Brandt", Berlin, 1868-69, which appeared in part in the Recue contemporaine.

"Scènes de la vie réele dans les armées du premier empire. Quelle verve, quel entrain, et quel bonne humeur! L'officier polonais écrivait comme il s'était battu, avec une furie toute française."- Rev. pol. et lit. Brunton, J. Anthologie de quatrains; anc. et mod. "Recueil charmant." - Rev. pol. et lit.

"Anthologie signifie choix, et ici il n'y a pas eu de choix. Pas plus que de choix, il n'y a eu d'ordre dans la disposition des petites pièces.”. Polybiblion. Campbell, J. McLeod. Memorials; selected from his correspondence; ed. by his son. 2 v. Carr, Mrs. C. North Italian folk.

"Mrs. Carr's sketches are pretty, but they are sketches; and just the same may be said of Mr. Caldecott's illustrations." Athenæum, Feb. 9.

"Nice perception of certain local types of character." -Sat. rec., Jan. 26.

Caylus, A. C. P. de T., comte de. Correspondance

inédite avec le P. Paciaudi, théatin, 1757 65, suivie de celle de l'abbé Barthélemy et de P. Mariette avec le même, pub. par C. Nisard. 2 v.

"Rien de plus varié que cette correspondance, qui a été copiée par M. Nisard à la bibliothèque de Parme et enrichie par lui de notes exactes et minutieuses. C'est bien le goût commun de l'antiquité figurée qui a rapproché ces hommes distingués; mais ou se tromperait fort en croyant que dans ces lettres il n'est question que d'archéologie. Caylus surtout conte à son ami Paciaudi tout ce qui se passe à Paris; il le tient au courant, jour par jour, de tout ce qui regarde les Jésuites. Paciaudi détestait cette compagnie d'une de ces haines que l'on a nommées haines de théologien. - Revue d. D.

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Treats of the growth of the commonwealth, Icelandic law, introd. of Christianity, and fall of the republic. Cook, D. Book of the play; studies and illustrations of [English] histrionic story, life, and

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Daudet, E. Le procès des ministres, 1830.

Four of the ministers of Charles X. were impeached by the Chamber of Deputies and tried for high treason. Davis, N. S. Contributions to the history of medical education and medical institutions in the U. S., 1776-1876. Dingelstedt, Franz. Sämmtliche Werke. 8 v. Contents. Vol. 1-6. le Abth: Erzählende Dichtungen. Vol. 1. Bade-Novellen: Reine Liebe. Ischl; Der Schein trügt. Karlsbad; - Molken-Kuren. Kreuth; Esel-Fritze. Ems; BadenKreuz-Mariage: Baden;- Das Mädchen von Helgoland. 2. Künstler-Ge. schichten: Der Schmied von Antwerpen; Ein armer Poet: - Ein reicher Poet; - Lorbeer und Myrthe;Vier Jahres-Zeiten; Deutsche Nächte in Paris. 3. Bunte Reihe: Kinder-Liebe; - Das böse Auge; -Blinde Liebe; Nachbar-Kinder;-Meister Gutenbergs Tod; Die Schule der Welt. 4. Unter der Erde. 5. Wanderbuch: Bilder aus Hessen-Kassel; -Wilhelms. Höhe; Boa Constrictor;_ Ein stiller Freitag in Weimar; Rhöne-Fahrten; - Tagebuch aus Ostende; - Holländ. ische Schildereyen; — Auf der Seine: Fontainebleau; -Seestück; -Ein Tag in Heilbronn; - Der Zauberer von Rom; - Die Externsteine. 6. Die Amazone. 7, 8. 2e Abth: Lyrische Dichtungen. 7. Erste Liebe; Jahreszeiten; - Dornröslein;- Ein Seestern; Irrfahrten; Spaziergänge eines kasseler Poëten; -PoëtsCorner; Letzte Liebe; - Erzählende Dichtungen. 8. Nachtwächters Stilleben; Nachtwächters Weltgang; Intermezzo; ein Roman; - Hohe Liebe: Sonettenkranz; - Hauslieder; - Nacht und Morgen. Durand, Mme. (pseud. Henri Gréville). Les Kou

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A Russian story somewhat in the style of Turgenef. "Just the novel which people want who are always looking after a story in the French tongue which shall not deal directly or by implication with evil-doing.". Atlantic.

Duruy, V. Histoire de France. Nouv. éd.

A good history of France to place in the hands of young people; profusely illustrated. Espinas, A. Des sociétés animales; étude de psychologie comparée.

"Une livre d'un rare intérêt, un livre qui n'avait pas encore été fait et qui ouvre une voie féconde de recherches et de découvertes. Cet ouvrage nourri de faits, écrit dans la meilleure langue française, avec un tour vif et piquant, se recommande surtout par de fines, ingénieuses, et profondes analyses. Aucun philosophe n'était encore entré à ce point dans l'âme des bêtes et n'avait si bien compris leurs jalousies et leurs rivalités, leurs sympathies et leurs amours, leurs vertus domestiques et politiques." Rev. pol. et lit.

"A very important study of two problems: (1) What is the relation between the individuals and the physical centre to which their activity binds them or the group within which they live each with a distinct body and consciousness of their own? (2) What sort of a thing is society? Is it a being properly so called a thing real and concrete, or is it only an abstraction, a concep. tion without object. a word? Is society a living thing like the individual, or is it only a unity of collection, a verbal entity?... His object is to make manifest the presence of communal life throughout the animal king. dom from the lowest grades to the highest. Collective life is, he contends, no accidental occurrence here and there, but a normal, constant, universal fact." - Mind. Ewald, A. C. Sir Robert Walpole; a polit. biog., 1676-1745.

"Although it requires but a very slight examination to discover many errors of carelessness in the details and constant sins against good taste in Mr. Ewald's volume, candid criticism will allow that the conception which he has formed of the character of his subject is corroborated by an independent study of the politics of the age." W. P. Courtney in Acad.