Pollock, W. H. Lectures on French poets. "Mr. Pollock deals with two themes, Beranger and Romanticism. The section on Alfred de Musset is particularly worthy of attention. We do not know that the singular temperament of this poet has ever before found so acute an observer, and we are inclined to claim for Mr. Pollock's criticism in this case greater originality than in any other." Sat. rec., April 5. "Musset said that the war between classicism and romanticism could never end in an absolutely definite victory for either school, nor was it desirable that it should be so. 'It was time', he said, 'for a third school, which should unite the merits of each'. Mr. Pollock's lectures are, so far, an attempt to justify this deliverance of De Musset." - Brit. quar. rev., July 1879. Pougens, M. C: J. de. Jocko, précédé d'une notice par A. France. VFF P86 "Joli conte publié pour la première fois en 1824; aucune édition n'approche de celle que vient de donner la maison Charavay. Le spirituel récit de l'auteur du Trésor des origines de la langue française' est inspiré et embelli d'un bout à l'autre." — Polybiblion, Jan. Rattazzi, Mme. M. L. Rattazzi et son temps. "Will contain not only unpublished anecdotes of this eminent Italian statesman, but unpublished letters and papers by him; it ought to be very interesting; it is published anonymously. Is it by his widow, Princess Marie de Solms, sometime Bonaparte Wyze?" - Pub. weekly, Feb. 26. Renan, J. E. Bertrand de Got, pape sous le nom de Clement v.; extrait de l'Histoire lit. de la France, t. 28. Stapfer, P. Etudes sur la littérature française. XVF ST27E "Those essays on 'Les industries de Beaumarchais' and on 'La comtesse de Rochefort' will please people who like anecdote and the personal element in literature. The other essays are more purely literary. One of the longest papers in the book is entitled 'La poésie française en 1872'. M. Stapfer's judgment seems to us very generally sound both as to the merits and the defects of the school and its opponents. As to the latter, his verdict on M. Maurice Bouchor is admirable. A shorter but equally interesting essay on Catullus, Chénier, and Musset' deserves mention. Two papers on Mérimée emphasize very excellently a curious idiosyncrasy, and (beyond all doubt) defect in that admirable master of style- - to wit, his deliberate affectation of a by no means genuine cynicism - and point out the limitations which this imposed upon his critical powers." - Saturday review, Nov. 6, 1880. Swinburne, A. C. Studies in song. VEP SW6st "The defect with which Mr. Swinburne started, namely, a want of knowledge and interest in men and their surroundings, and an inordinate love for the jangle and gurgle of words, became more and more noticeable in each succeeding volume. It has now reached a climax past which we think it cannot go." Spectator, Mar. 5. Les origines de la France contempoTaine, II. A. raine: La Révolution. T. 2. La conquête jacobine. Eng. The origins of contemporary France: The French Revolution; tr. by J: Durand. Vol. 2. "This second volume of The French Revolution' constitutes Book 4 of M. Taine's crowning work, The origins of contemporary France'. It is devoted exclusively to The Jacobin conquest', to a study, that is to say, of the processes by which a handful of mad doctrinaires, with the aid of the rabble, of professional thieves and assassins, of the criminal classes generally, succeeded in overawing and tricking France into complete subjection to a minority which was really representative of nothing whatever except itself. The book is not a narrative of events at large. The war into which the Jacobins plunged France is barely referred to; almost nothing is said of the business and social state of the country. The work is, therefore, the complement rather than the rival of other histories of the French Revolution. It completes the singularly perfect equipment of the student of that great upheaval. In M. Thiers' history we have a brilliant, glowing, living narrative of events as they occurred, with such portraits and characterizations of men as are rarely found in any piece of historical writing. M. Mignet is less brilliant, less dramatic, but more philosophical, and perhaps in some respects sounder. Carlyle has illuminated the picture with red lights, and now M. Taine analyzes and minutely depicts the methods and the means employed in producing it.". - N. Y. tribune. Vanderbilt, Mrs. G. L. The social history of Flatbush, and manners and customs of the Dutch settlers in King's County. "Wonderfully bright, spicy, entertaining, and rich with materials of poems and romances." — Literary world, June 18. Wander, K: F: W: Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon. 5 v. Wilde, O. Poems. VEP W645 The book is not without cleverness, but is marred everywhere by imitation, insincerity, and bad taste." Saturday review, July 23. Alcott, A. B. New Connecticut; an autobiograph W5P AL14 ical poem. Anderson, J: P. Book of British topography; a classified catalogue of the topographical works in the library of the British Museum, relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Azuni, D. A. Droit maritime de l'Europe. 2 v. Bailey, W. W. The botanical collector's handbook. (Naturalist's handy ser., no. 3.) Baines, T: Lancashire and Cheshire, past and present; a history and description of the Palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester; with an account of the manufactures, etc., by Sir W: Fairbairn. 2 v. With engravings. Balfour, F. M. Treatise on comparative embryology. Vol. 2. Barrus, H. History of Goshen, Mass., 1661-1881; with family sketches. Beardsley, E. E. Life and correspondence of S: Seabury, Bp. of Conn. 2d ed. Beesly, A. H. Sir J: Franklin. Bible. N. T. Greek. The New Testament in the original Greek; the text rev. by B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort. Amer. ed., with an introd. by P. Schaff. Birch, S: Bronze ornaments of the palace gates of Balawat; with descriptions and translations by T. G. Pinches. Pt. 3. Black, W: That beautiful wretch; a Brighton story. VEF B562T Block, M. Entretiens familiers sur l'administration de notre pays. 7 v. 3. 5. Contents. 1. La France. 2. Le département. Bouillé, R. de. Histoire des ducs de Guise. 4 v. Italy; [by R. S. Poole]. Catalogue of Greek coins: Seleucid kings of Catalogue of Greek coins: Tauric Chersonese, Broilliard, C: Cours d'aménagement des forêts enseigné à l'Ecole Forestière. "A work of unusual excellence on forestculture, by an eminent professor of the Ecole Forestière at Nancy." G. S. in Publishers' weekly, April 16. Brown University. Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding, Sept. 6, 1864. Bryan, M. E. Wild work; the story of the Red River tragedy. W5F B84W Buck, Mrs. E. G. Memoir of S: Hubbard. Reprinted from Memoirs of N. E. Hist. Geneal. Soc. Bull, G:, Bp. Defensio fidei Nicænæ; a defence of the Nicene creed out of the extant writings of the Catholick doctors [of] the first three centuries of the Christian Ch., etc.; new trans. 2 v. (Vol. 1, 2 of his Works on the trinity; Libr. of Anglo-Cath. theology.) - Examen censuræ; or, An answer to strictures on Harmonia apostolica; added, an apology for the Harmony and its author, etc. (Libr. of Anglo-Cath. theology.) Harmonia apostolica; or, Two dissertations in which the doctrine of St. James on justification by works is explained and defended, etc. (Libr. of Anglo-Cath. theology.) Judgment of the Catholic Church on the necessity of believing that Christ is very God, etc.; new trans. (Vol. 3 of his Works on trinity. Libr. of Anglo-Cath. theol.) Carle, G. La faillite dans le droit international privé, ou du conflit des lois de differentes nations en matière de faillite; tr. et annoté, etc., par E. Dubois. "M. Carle soutient que, dans la théorie du droit international privé, le principe de l'unité et l'universalité de la faillite est le plus conforme aux progrès de la science. Nous croyons avec lui que l'adoption de ce principe est conseillée par le raison et par l'intérêt du commerce. Les notes du M. Dubois étendues et judicieuses augmentent considérablement la valeur de l'original." - Rev. de droit int., v. 7. ... Catullus, Quintus (or Caius) Valerius. Poems; tr. into English verse, with life of the poet, excursûs, and illust. notes. Cauchy, E. F. Du respect de la propriété privée dans la guerre maritime. Cellini, B. Memoirs; with notes and obs. of G. P. Carpani; tr. by T: Roscoe. Champneys, B. Quiet corner of England; studies of landscape and architecture in Winchelsea, Rye, and the Romney Marsh. "Mr. Champneys is an architect who takes the liberty to think for himself - a man of much original genius and sincere culture, young, and with an enthusiastic contempt for conventionality, which I hope he may never outgrow."N. Y. tribune, letter from London correspondent. Cheever, G: B. Lectures on the Pilgrim's progress, and on the life and times of J: Bunyan. 8th ed. Chronicles of the White Rose of York; a series of hist. fragments, etc., rel. to the reign of Edward; with notes, etc. Church of England. Canons. Collection of the laws and canons to the reign of Henry VIII.; tr. with notes by J: Johnson. New ed. 2 v. (Libr. of Anglo-Cath. theol.) Clarke, W: H. Horses' teeth; a treatise on their mode of development, etc. Cognetti de Martiis, S. Le forme primitive nella evoluzione economica. Contents. Discovery of the true cause why Ireland was never brought under obedience [to] England. Letter to Earl Salisbury on the state of Ireland, 1607, 1610, giving an account of the plantation in Ulster. Speech, 1613, tracing the ancient constitution of Ireland. Delaware. Laws, Oct. 14, 1700-Aug. 18, 1797. (In 2 v.) Vol. 1. Disraeli, B:, Earl of Beaconsfield. Wit and wisdom; collected from his writings and speeches [by H: G: Calcraft]. ... "There is much more folly than wisdom in it, though possibly more wit than either. There is a good deal in it of very indifferent quality, which is neither wit, folly, nor wisdom, - a great deal of poorish and very ornate description, which is quite out of place in these pages. Mr. Disraeli's novels abound in showy description, rather of the auctioneer's kind than the artist's; and it has, unfortunately, pleased the editor of this work to transfer a great many pages of this kind to his work. On the whole, the quotations from the speeches are much better than the quotations from the novels." --Spectator, Aug. 6. Marian Evans. 2d ed. philos. libr., v. 15.) VFF•F436MO Feydeau, E. A. Monsieur de Saint-Bertrand, suite d'Un début à l'opéra. 2e éd. Fleury, J., called Champfleury. Bibliographie céramique, nomenclature analytique de toutes les publications faites en Europe et en Orient sur les arts et l'industrie céramiques depuis le 16e siècle jusqu'a nos jours. Fochier, L: Souvenirs historiques sur Bourgoin. "Cet ouvrage posthume, publié par les fils de l'auteur, atteste un libéralisme et une science également solides. Les historiens de la Révolution Française trouveront là plus d'un document précieux, notamment sur l'attitude du clergé de province en 1789." Rev. pol. et lit., Jan. 29, 1881. Forde, G. A lady's tour in Corsica. 2 v. "Leaves on the mind a vivid impression of the people and of the scenery."- St. James's gazette. Fournel, M. J. H: Les Berbers; étude sur la conquête de l'Afrique par les Arabes; d'après les textes arabes imprimés. 2 v. Freeman, E: A: The historical geography of Europe. 2 v. "He has not only given definitions of boundaries, but but he has shown the causes of the alteration in each case. In this way he has supplied a framework of European history. He has done thoroughly and well his task. We do not, however, feel sure that Mr. Freeman has done all that the title of his work assumes. 'Historical geography' involves two factors; Mr. Freeman has given the history, but has omitted the geography; he has told us of the peoples who settled in the land, but has said nothing of the effects which the land produced upon its settlers." - - Athenæum, April 30. Green, S: A. A centennial address delivered in the Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, June 7, 1881, before the Mass. Medical Society. Guernsey, A. H. Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and poet. "By the author of 'Carlyle: his life-his books— his theories'. The larger part of this volume is made up from characteristic quotations from Emerson's works, strung together by a slight sketch of his life and analysis of his character and writings. His sermons, accounts of his visits to Europe, his lectures and addresses, critical and biographical discourses, 'Nature', 'Essays', 'English traits', 'Representative men', 'Conduct of life', 'Society and solitude', 'Letters and social aims', and his poems have all been liberally drawn upon for extracts."- Publishers' weekly, Sept. 17. Harmonist, The; or, Musical cabinet; a collection of classical and popular music. 2 v. in 4 pts. Harvard College. Class of 1881. Secretary's report. Hazelius, E. L., D.D. History of the American Lutheran Church, 1685-1842. Henshall, J. A. Book of the black bass, comprising its complete scientific and life history; with a treatise on angling and fly-fishing, and a description of tools, tackle, and implements. Hooker, W: J., and Taylor, T:, M.D. Muscologia Britannica, cont. the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland. 2d ed., corr. and enl. Hooper, Mrs. The Tsar's window. (No name ser.) W5F-H766C Hunnewell, J. F. Bibliography of Charlestown, Mass., and Bunker Hill. Hyde, E. History of Winchendon from 1735 to the present time. Jacoby, P: Etudes sur la sélection dans ses rapports avec l'hérédité chez l'homme. "An important contribution to Darwinism." emy, July 16. Acad. Johnson, Rev. J: Theological works. 2 v. (Libr. of Anglo-Cath. theology.) Lacroix, E. Dictionnaire industriel à l'usage de tout le monde, ou Les 100,000 secrets et recettes de l'industrie moderne. 3e éd. 4 v. "Ouvrage adopté par M. le Ministre de l'Instruction Publique pour les Bibliothèques communales, etc." Leighton, Rev. W. A. The lichen-flora of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. 2d ed. Leypoldt, F., and Jones, L. E. The American catalogue; subject entries of books in print and for sale, July 1, 1876. Lincoln, C. Discourse to the First Parish in Hingham, Sept. 8, 1869, on reopening their meeting-house; with app. Livingston, V. Inquiry into the merits of the reformed doctrine of 'imputation' as contrasted with those of Catholic imputation', etc.; with introd. by J. Hughes. McCaskey, J. P., ed. Franklin Square song collection. McNair, Maj. F: Perak and the Malays; sarong and "kris." "Full of interest, leaving no side of his subject untouched. He writes from 20 years' knowledge of the Malays."— Spectator, Feb. 16, 1878. With very interesting accounts of the country, the animals, the natives, and a chapter on the strange frenzy, amok, "running a muck." Maintenon, F. d'A., Mme. Scarron, afterw. marquise de. Lettres sur l'éducation des filles; avec un commentaire et des notes par Th. Lavallée. Mallock, W. H. A romance of the 19th century. VEF M29R "It is difficult to imagine that this book can have any effect that is not mischievous." Spectator, July 16. Marrast, A. La vie byzantine au 6e siècle; préface et commentaires par A. Planté. Maryland, U. S. Proceedings of the conventions of the Prov. of Md., held at Annapolis in 1774-76. Méry, J. Les nuits d'Orient; contes nocturnes. VFF MON Military Historical Society of Mass. Peninsular campaign of Gen. McClellan in 1862; papers read before the Soc., 1876-80. Vol. 1. Tales of the Cymry; with notes. Motley, J. He that will not when VEF OL35H he may. "This is a novel which no one can read without pleasure. In plot, in treatment, and as regards most of the characters, it is almost devoid of faults. Mrs. Oliphant has written so much, that she is almost too complete mistress of her art; we find in her none of the struggles and flashes, the whims and the fire, of tumultuous genius laboring to achieve expression. Her book is a calm and harmonious reflection, not a picturesque and impassioned creation. She writes from the fullness of experience, with the mastery of methods. She has no cause to plead, no wrongs to right, no spite to gratify, but only a story to tell." - Spectator, Oct. 16, 1880. "This novel is not equal to some of Mrs. Oliphant's earlier works, but it would be a poor compliment to say that it is superior to the generality of the stories now published." G. B. Smith in Academy, Nov. 20, 1880. O'Reilly, E. Les deux procès de condamnation de Jeanne D'Arc. 2 v. 5F-D240 Overall, J:, Bp. The convocation book of 1606, commonly called Bp. Overall's convocation book, conc. the gov. of God's Catholic Church and the kingdoms of the whole world. (Libr. of Anglo-Cath. theology.) Pagan, M. L'honesto essempio del uertuoso desiderio che hanno le donne di nobil ingegno. Parton, J. Life of Voltaire. 2 v. "Of the actual facts of Voltaire's strange and busy career, a very full, and on the whole sufficient account has been got together in these voluminous pages. No one who has hitherto derived his ideas of Voltaire's visit to Frederick merely from Mr. Carlyle and Lord Macaulay should omit to correct them by the account here givenone of the most careful parts of the book. So, too, the account of the Cirey stay is very interesting, and much the fullest that we know in English." - Saturday rev., Aug. 20. Poynter, E. F. Among the hills. 2 v. "There is a far less abundant humor than is manifest in all George Eliot's tales, and no sign at all of that bitter Thackerayan irony which took the charm of restfulness out of so many of them. But you might suppose that Among the hills' had been written by the author of Silas Marner in her loftiest tone of thought, and with all the rare simplicity of her best style.". Spectator, June 18. Printers' circular. Vol. 7, nos. 10-12; v. 8-14, 15 no. 1. Skene, W: F. Celtic Scotland; a history of ancient Alban. Vol. 3. ... "Of all European histories, there is none in which the historian has greater difficulties to contend with, especially in its earlier stages. This difficulty is attributable to two causes- - firstly, the very fragmentary and meagre character of the materials at the historian's command; secondly, the mass of fiction which has been presented and received as history to fill up the blanks left by the absence of authentic fact. Hence the greater part of the historian's task is to expose the fallacies which by dint of frequent repetition are at last accepted as truth. The better to account for and to explain the tenure by which the Highlanders held the soil, and the peculiarities of their social organization, that clan system which has outlived the tribal system in any other part of Europe, Mr. Skene traces the various legendary accounts of their origin to their source. He divides these legends into three classes the ethnic, the linguistic, and the historical. Then he turns to the genealogies of the several clans, and discusses fully the Highland names, and concludes with an interesting chapter on the tenure of land in the Highlands and Western Isles subsequent to the 16th century." . Sat. rev., March 5. Specimens of the German lyric poets; consisting of translations in verse from the works of Bürger, Goethe, etc.; with biog. notices, etc. 2d ed. ... Spooner, Z. H., ed. Poems of the Pilgrims. W5P.99P6 Stearns, W. A. New England bird life; a manual of New England ornithology; rev. and ed. by F. Coues. Pt. 1. Steere, T: History of Smithfield, 1730/1-1871. Stormouth, Rev. J. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language; pronunciation rev. by P. H. Phelp. 6th ed., rev. Strahan, E: Art treasures of America. Section 6. Sully, J. Illusions; a psychological study. "No other department of psychological investigation could better suit Mr. Sully's peculiarly subtle turn for the unravelling of obscure mental processes; and in none other could his happy knack of minute introspection be employed to better advantage. He has occupied a novel field, for his treatment of illusions is purely psycholog ical, and his essay is confined to what may be called normal or healthy cases."- Grant Allen in the Academy, Aug. 6. Symonds, J: A. Renaissance in Italy: Italian literature. 2 v. "Concluding the work." "An excellent history of Italian literature from 1450 to 1530, with a preliminary essay on its origin and develop. ment up to that date. It is the period when the division between popular literature and humanistic culture came to an end, when classic form, appropriated by scholars, was given to the prose and poetry of Italian literature. It is the period in which Italy worked out and expressed the results of her long quest after style, which thenceforth she established as a possession for all other nations." M. Creighton in Academy, Aug. 13. Timbs, J: Historic ninepins; a book of curiosities. Todière, L'Autriche sous Marie-Thérèse. Trumbull, J: Sortie of Gibraltar; photograph. Trumbull, J. II. Indian names, etc., in and on the borders of Connecticut; with interpretations of some of them. U. S. Naval Observatory. Astronomical and meteorological observations made during 1876. Pt. 1. 2. Surgeon. Gen.'s Office. Index-catalogue of the Vaterlaus, J. La lingua reto-romauntscha. Villaviciosa, J. de. La mosquea. 3a imp. Walker, J. B. West. Weber, G. Le Sipylos et ses monuments, ancienne Smyrne (Novlochon); monographie histo rique, cont. une carte, etc. Weismann, A. Studies in the theory of descent; with notes and add. by the author; tr. and ed., with notes, by R. Meldola; with a prof. notice by C: Darwin. Pt. 2. Wheeler, L. Ñ. The foreigner in China; with introd. by Prof. W. C. Sawyer. Whetham, J. W. B. Across Central America. Whitaker, G: M. Record of births, marriages, and deaths of Sturbridge, from the settlement of the town to 1816. White, Rev. E: The tone and teaching of the New Testament on certainty in religion; the Merchant's lecture for Oct. 1880. "A striking little book." — Spectator, Dec. 12, 1880. Wildmann, R. International law. Wildridge, T: T. The misereres of Beverly Minster; a complete series of drawings of the seat carvings in the choir of St. John's, Beverley, Yorkshire; with notes. "The misereres in Beverley Minster, although not the earliest, are among the best known and most generally characteristic examples of an application of the work of the sculptor which, between the 13th and 16th centuries, enriched our churches with the humorous fancies and exaggerations of grotesque art." W. E. A. Azon in Acad., Aug. 16, 1879. Wilson, W. History and antiquities of the Dissenting churches in London, Westminster, and Southwark; with app. on the origin, progress, and present state of Christianity in Britain. 4 v. Winthrop, R. C. Address at the unveiling of the statue of Col. W: Prescott, on Bunker Hill, June 17, 1881. Yonge, C. M. Love and life. "The story of the maiden whom the love of Eros made immortal sets before us, in a shadowy way, the world. old lessons of the power of love and pain to transform and elevate the human spirit. There may be deeper meanings in the legend, but Miss Yonge has contented herself with shaping it anew into a plain love-story of the last century, and she has done her work with consid. erable skill. A reader knowing nothing of the loves and sorrows of Cupid and Psyche, but merely taking up the book as an ordinary novel, will hardly lay it down till he has finished it." - Spectator, Aug. 13. Ziemssen, H. W. von. of medicine. Cyclopædia of the practice Vol. 20: General index. |