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Allen, C: G. B. The beckoning hand; and other stories. 1887.

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and Cotes, M. Kalee's shrine. 1886.

"A more weird story we have seldom read." — Bookseller.

"Were a sufferer from toothache to become absorbed in Kalee's shrine,' the toothache would soon be forgotten." - Academy, Mar. 13, 1886.

Aubigné, T. A. d'. Mémoires; pub. avec préf., etc., par L. Lalanne.

"His name is not unworthy to stand beside those of the many distinguished Protestants who in the sixteenth century did so much to raise France to greatness, beside those of Jean Goujon, Bernard Palissy, Ambroise Paré, the Estiennes, and Ramus. The Memoirs are characterised by Michelet as 'les plus beau livre du temps,' and though this praise is perhaps excessive, it is in the right direction. There may

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be inaccuracies with regard to matters of detail such as dates, and the names of places, but the general tone of the narrative is truthful." - Arthur Tilley in Macmil lan's mag., Feb.

Aumale, H: E. P. L: d'O., duc d'.

princes de Condé. Vol. 5.

Histoire des

"The period embraced in the fifth volume begins in the autumn of 1645, when Louis de Bourbon, then still Duke d'Anguien was just recovering from illness, and at the moment when he having become Prince de Coudé by the death of his half-lunatic father, was committed to Vincennes." -Sut. rev., Apr. 6.

Barrett, F. A recoiling vengeance. 1888. 2 v.

"In its clearness and brightness it reminds us a little of the manner of Anthony Trollope." - Sat. rev., Sept. 8, 1888.

Bond, J: J. Handy-book of rules and tables for

verifying dates with the Christian era. Book-prices current; a record of the prices at which books have been sold at auction, Dec. 1886 Feb. 1889. 2 v.

"Though of modest rank as literature, cannot fail to be of service for reference."Sat. rev., Apr. 27.

Boyesen, H. H.

The light of her countenance. "Thoroughly readable and entertaining."— Literary world, Sept. 14.

Butt, B. M. Elizabeth; and other sketches.

"All except the first have already appeared in Blackwood's magazine a fact which furnishes presumptive evidence of their literary merit. The narratives

are, generally speaking, of a sombre and melancholy type, some of them deeply pathetic, but the plots are slender, and the matter fragmentary." - J. Burrows in the Academy, May 4.

Caballero, R. D. Breve examen acerca de los pri

meros tiempos del arte tipografico en España; version castallana por Don V. Fontan. 1793, repr. 1865.

Caine, T. H. The Deemster. 1887. 3 v.

"Well worthy of the author of The shadow of a crime.' In shifting his scene of action from the hills of Cumberland to the Isle of Manx, Mr. Hall Caine has left behind him none of his three great gifts of imagina tion, pathos, and humour; and he has found a people even more distinct than Cum'shire folk,' with charac. ters as well suited to exhibit human passion in its sim. plicity, and a dialect as rich and racy as any in the North of England.” — Cosmo Monkhouse, in the Acad emy, Nov. 26, 1888.

"As a picture of Manx life the book is marvellously faithful. In the locale of his story Mr. Caine has been fortunate. An island that still retains so mueh of ancient local self-government would be most interesting and suggestive of romantic treatment even if its popu lation were large; but when we consider that the Manxmen could be lodged in a suburb of Manchester the

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picturesqueness of such a dramatic field becomes in. tensified. If there is any reader for whom Mr Caine's situations are not strong enough, he must be one whose 'blood runs as cool as a merman's,' to use a Manx expression." - Athenæum, Dec. 3, 1887. Carette, Mme.

Recollections of the Court of the Tuileries; tr. by E.. P. Train.

Carey, R. N. Only the governess. 1888. 3 v. Chaseray, A. A plat ventre; étude humoristique et philosophique d'une très petit monde.

1888.

"M. Chaseray est-il allé plus loin qu' Huber, le très consciencieux, mais un peu niais observateur des four. mis? Ses fines et innombrables remarques, parfois loya lement et sincérement contradictoires, ajouteront-elles quelque chose de définitif à la nomenclature ou à la psychologie des fourmis? Je laisse cette question à résoudre aux autorités compétentes. Pour mon compte j'ai accompagné volontiers M. Chaseray dans ses excursions humoristico-scientifiques. Je regrette que son volume ne puisse être conseillé ni aux femmes ni aux enfants. Les unes y trouveraient des citations de Rabelais qui les choqueraient, les autres y apprendraient trop tôt que ce monde est mal fait et que les fourmilières humaines laissent beaucoup à désirer."— A. Filon in Revue bleue, 9 fèv.

Cheney, Mrs. E. D. Louisa May Alcott; her life, letters, and journals.

Church, Rev. A. J: To the lions; a tale of the early Christians.

"It is the object of this grateful tale to present the circumstances of one of the early persecutions of the Christians, the persecution under Trajan, in that accurate and vivid form in which none but a considerable classical scholar familiar with all the literature of the period could present them. It does not challenge comparison with Cardinal Wiseman's Fabiola,' or Cardinal Newman's Callista;' for the story is much lighter. The story is more or less subservient to the history rather than the history to the story: and after reading it, we feel that we understand much more clearly than be. fore, both the compulsion under which some of the best Roman Emperors acted in ordering these persecutions, and the kind of influences which set the authority of the law in motion against the Christians; and yet we are interested throughout, and are never conscious that we are being instructed rather than amused." Spectator, June 15.

Crawford, F. M. Sant' Ilario.

"The fulfilment of a promise given in Saracinesca,' that he would continue the story in another novel. The sequel is much better than the commencement. The plot is more skilfully concocted, and the interest is sustained to the end. As a story of incident the book leaves little to be desired. The various events, roman. tic and even sensational follow naturally and neatly, and the whole is a very clever piece of work."- Athe næum, Aug. 17.

Crawfurd, O. J: F: Sylvia Arden.

"It is something between a pure romance and an enlarged Christmas story, is full of hairbreadth escapes from imminent deadly Greeks and others, pilots the hero and the readers through them with speed and skill, and comes to a satisfactory and striking end." — Academy, May 19.

"A capital story, which no reasonable person will leave unfinished or regret having read." Saturday review, June 9. Crouch, A. P.

Glimpses of Feverland; or, A cruise in West African waters.

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"Ce polémiste ardent, toujours prèt à batailler pour une idée, parfois pour une illusion, avait soif de vérite froide, de sincérité brutale dans les questions d'ordre purement historique. Aucun autre lien entre ces études qu'une recerche scrupuleuse de la réalité des faits, une ardente volonté de découvrir la figure vraie du personage. la caractère positif de l'événement, sous l'épaisseur de voiles amoncellés par la passion, le préjugé, le parti pris d'accommoder l'histoire à une opinion ou à une doctrine." - Rev. pol. et lit., 4 mai. Fenn, G: M. One maid's mischief. 1887. 3 v.

"Mr. Fenn carries the art of telling a story by means of conversation a long way towards perfection. One maid's mischief' has a sustained gaiety throughout, and it is well filled with adventure. The exciting part of the action takes place in the Malay Peninsula."— Athenæum. Feh. 18.

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"There is no padding in A voice in the wilderness;' it would be hard to find a single unnecessary word in all the three volumes, more especially in the dialogue, which is concise and peculiarly happy in idea and expression. Some of the passages are most amusing and well worth lingering over, particularly Mrs. Wentworth's accounts of the various exploits of her children. The characters of these children are admirably drawn; they are original in everything, and their logic is irresistable. A book that will bear reading more than once, if only for its clever dialogue." - Sat. rev., Mar. 3. Francillon, R. E: King or Knave? 1888. 3 v.

"Has that spice of the fantastic about it which all Mr, Francillon's books, or, at least, all his best books, have. The double life of a man who is, on the one side, an honourable and prosperous citizen has been frequently handled, but never with greater boldness than in this case. The whole book is interesting.". -G: Saintsbury in the Academy, Apr. 14. Gambier, Capt. J. W. Swifter than a weaver's shuttle. 1887. 3 v.

"Its interest never flags from the first page to the last, and the reader is kept almost to the very end in that delightful uncertainty which is one of the most vi tal charms in fiction." W. Sharp in the Academy, Feb. 27, 1887.

Garnier, E: The soft porcelain of Sèvres; with hist. introd.; tr. by H. F. Andresen. Pt. 1. Representing 250 water-colour subjects after the originals." -Athenæum, June 8.

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"The soft paste was only made for about forty years [1750-90], was enormously expensive, and is now corre. spondingly rare. The drawings, done by M. Garnier himself, are wonderfully brilliant, and the engrav ings in chromo-lithography well printed, and represent

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Gould, S. B. The Gaverocks; a tale of the Cornish coast. 1887. 3 v.

"Wild, singular, extraordinary as the conceptions and combinations of the author of Mehalah are, they are almost if not entirely removed from the realm of imagination. The stories of English rural life which have followed Mehalah form each in its way bits of human history, studies of eccentric development, scenes from the comedy of unsophisticated life." — Sat. rev., Nov. 12, 1887.

Grimaldi, S. Origines genealogicæ;

or, The sources whence English genealogies may be traced from the conquest to the present time. 1828.

Harrison, W. Memorable London houses; a handy guide; with illust. anecdotes, etc.

"There are two principal points in which this book differs from the standard work on the subject, Mr. Law. rence Hutton's Literary landmarks.' It is so small it can be put into a pocket, and it is profusely illustrated with vignettes from drawings by Mr. G. N. Martin. A neat unpretending little book; a very pleasant and useful pocket companion in the western portion of London."— Saturday review, Sept. 21.

Hartley, Mrs. M. L. Ismay's children. 1887. 3 v. Holden, D: Journal, French and Indian war, Feb. 20-Nov. 29, 1760; with notes and introd. by S. A. Green, M. D. Horatius Flaccus, Q. Odes, Epodes, Satires, and Epistles; tr. by the most eminent English scholars and poets. (Chandos classics.) "Three centuries of poets and scholars, who have successively ventured on the 'dulce periculum' of translating Horace, have been laid under coutribution to bring about the result of an ideal Horace in English.' The ideal, it is true, is still a long way off, but the result is interesting.". Spectator, Apr. 27. Jerningham, H. E. H.

Diane de Breteuille. 1887.

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"A really exquisite little story exquisite in its plot, in its style, in its combination of English frankness that never descends into brutality and French charm that never degenerates into chic.". W: Wallace in the Academy, July 23, 1887.

Johnston, H. H. The history of a slave.

"Author of The Kilimanjaro expedition.' This story of a slave is a new and startling picture of slavery in the Barbary States, and western equatorial Africa." "A work of fiction based upon every-day occurrences in the Dark Continent, and well calculated to bring home to the reader the social condition of heathen and Mohammedan Africa, and the horrors of the domestic slave trade."— Athenæum, June 15.

Keddie, H. (pseud. S.. Tytler). Disappeared. 1887.

"More ambitious and less satisfactory than anything she has published for three years past."- W: Wallace in the Academy, July 23, 1887.

Knights of the Lion, The; a romance of the 13th century; with a pref. by the Marquess of Lorne.

"In our opinion the story is worthy of rehabilitation Athenæum. in an unchivalric age."

Lacombe, P. La famille dans la société romaine; étude de moralité comparée. (Bibl. anthropologique.)

"Un tableau complet des mœurs romaines, où tout en observant ce qu'elles présentaient de spécial par suite de circonstances particulières, il signale ce qu'elles avaient de commun avec celles des autres peuples. M. Lacombe estime que les historiens qui ont écrit jusqu'ici

l'histoire de la société romaine pèchent à la fois pas excès d'indulgence et par défaut d'exactitude; Rome à son avis, fut plus immorale et plus corrompue qu'ils ne le supposent. Pour justifier cette assertion, il fait appel à la législation dont on n'avait pas suffisamment tenu compte; il montre, d'après les textes juridiques, ce que devaient être les mœurs romaines, et il prouve par l'examen des écrivains latins la véracité de ces conjectures." Rev. pol. et lit., 20 av.

Laffitte, P. Le suffrage universel et le régime parlementaire. 1888.

Lee, K. (Mrs. H: Jenner). An imperfect gentleman. 1888. 3 v.

"An imperfect gentleman' is a variation on the same theme as that once famous novel, 'Ten thousand a year' the inability of a man reared in comparatively humble circumstances to adapt himself to the position of a country gentleman of considerable estate, when suddenly lifted into it. But the workmanship is more del. icate than Samuel Warren's slapdash manner, and the hero is not a Yahoo." Academy, Oct. 6, 1888. Leland, C: G. The Breitmann ballads. Leroy-Beaulieu, A. L'Empire des tsars et les

Russes. Vol. 3: La religion.

"Si les deux premiers volumes sont aussi remarquables que le dernier, - et nous n'avons pas de raison d'en douter, nous devons considérer ce livre comme l'ouvrage le plus complet et le plus sérieux que l'on ait écrit en notre langue sur la Russie." - -E. C. in Le livre, 10 juillet.

Lever, C: J. The confessions of Con Cregan. [1878.]

Leys, J: K. The Lindsays; a romance of Scottish

life. 1888. 3 v.

"A good novel. It is for the most part excellently written, and never in the least degree commonplace or dull. A tale of adventure." - Saturday rev., Apr. 28. Linskill, M.. The haven under the hill. 1886. 3 v.

"A fine, healthy, breezy novel, dealing with Whitby and its people; while it is instinct with human feeling on the one hand, its passages descriptive of the wild coast of Yorkshire are also very vivid and realistic."G. B. Smith in the Academy, Oct. 9, 1886. Lonicer, P. Icones Livianae praecipvas Romanorum historias repraesentantes, succinctis versibus illustratae. 1573. Macquoid, K. S. Sir James Appleby, Bart. 1886.

3 v.

Majende, Lady M. E.. Precautions. 1887. 3 v.

"A pleasant, eminently readable, healthy-toned, wholesome novel, not destitute of humour; containing some decidedly clever sketches of character." - - Spectutor, Jan. 7, 1888.

Malden, Mrs. S. F., wife of C: Jane Austen.

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"If it could be truthfully said of any human being that he or she lived a life in which nothing happened, surely no life could more completely justify the saying than that of Jane Austen. Nor does the life of the writer vide any more material than the life of the woman. Mrs. Malden has done her work carefully and conscientiously; though it must be said that she might, and doubtless could have produced a volume which would have been more interesting and satisfactory to those by whom Miss Austen's works are known and loved. has chosen the possibly more useful, but certainly duller, task of endeavouring to attract what, it is to be feared, is the much larger number of those to whom the great writer is almost or altogether unknown; and to this end she gives a summary of each story, illustrated by copious quotations. The author's occasional critical remarks are classified by a sympathetic discrimination which would have enabled her to produce a really interesting book had she hit upon a happier method." - James Ashcroft Noble in the Academy, Aug. 17.

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"An American clergyman and man of letters. Mr. Merriam has written the life of an English man of letters and his wife, and he has done it excellently well. William Smith was born in 1808, and died in 1872. His best known works are "Thorndale,' and 'Gravenhurst' in which he threw into conversational form discussions of philosophical and religious matters. He anticipated many evolutionist's ideas, but we regret that he never brought the full force of his thought to bear on the general scheme of evolution. A fine meditative quality was his most excellent gift. It would seem as if no one could read him, or about him without finding in him a kind of English Amiel." - Nation, July 11. Murray, D: C. Old Blazer's hero. 1887.

"One is always certain of something above the ordinary level when taking up a novel by Mr. Christie Murray, and this is up to his mark," B. M. Ranking in the Academy, Oct. 1, 1887.

Norris, W: E: Miss Shafto. (Leisure hour ser.)

"Mr. Norris's literary skill and sound taste have only just prevented Miss Shafto' from being dull." Athenæum, Sept 7.

Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Lady Car; the sequel of a life.

"A new and good specimen of the improved work which has recently resulted from Mrs. Oliphant's reversion to the practice of writing short stories." - G: Saintsbury in the Academy, July 20.

Joyce. 1888. 3 v.

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Joyce' is, for five-sixths of it at least, the best novel that Mrs. Oliphant has written for some dozen years. That fatal determination to give just as much interest, just as much art, just as much literary skill, as will put an ordinary novel reader through three volumes, and not one pennyworth more is nowhere evi. dant until quite the end. This end is so unsatisfactory in every way that we only imagine Mrs. Oliphant to have said to herself - This really will not do, I shall be giving them another "Salem chapel" for their money if I go on like this;' and then to have botched the finish anyhow lest she should commit an unbusinesslike extravagance.". Academy, May 19, 1888.

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"But for the great pains which Mr. Robinson has ta ken, in The youngest Miss Green,' to gratify the popu lar demand for melo-dramatic incident in fiction, I should have said that this is the ablest novel he has produced for nearly ten years." Academy, Sept. 29. Runciman, J. The Chequers; the natural history of a public-house set forth in a loafer's diary. [1888.]

"Of the baker's dozen of narratives here brought together there is not one that as a story is not deeply in. teresting." Academy, May 12, 1888.

Schweitzer, P. Geschichte der alt-skandinavi

schen Litteratur, bis zur Reformation. 1885. Seneca, I.. A. On benefits; tr. by A. Stewart.

1887.

Sergeant, A, Seventy times seven. 1888. 3 v.

"We have not read lately a more enjoyable novel of incident than Seventy times seven.' It is a treat when an author has the wit to construct an effective plot and to work it out simply, without worrying the reader with immaterial side-issues and jejune reflections.". Academy, June 2, 1888.

Sergent-Marceau, A. F. Reminiscences of a regicide; ed. from the orig. mss. by M. C. M. Simpson.

"Mrs. Simpson has supplemented their personal details by much information from printed books, and has produced a volume which is very interesting in parts." Athenæum, Aug. 3.

"Sergent the conventionnel,' held with Montaigne that the only good histories are those written by the very people who were at the head of the movements de. scribed, or, who at any rate, took part in their conduct.' If the memoranda from which his careful and laborious editor has evolved a profoundly interesting narrative, do in truth constitute a good' history of the events in which he took a part, then have we read, with more or less confidence or credulity, a great many bad histories of the terrible revolutionary drama, and the actors in it. The Reminiscences' of this Regicide have the fascination of a romance of the time when romances were romantic."- Spectator, Aug. 17. Shallow, J. The Templar's trials; an attempt to

estimate the evidence published by Dupuy, etc., and to arrange the documents in the chronological order suggested. 1888. "He has written a thoughtful book in which he has accumulated in a highly compact form a large mass of evidence. It is a pity the style has not been more carefully watched over.” — Athenæum, May 18. Siemens, Sir C: W: Scientific works; papers and

discussions; ed. by E. F. Bamber. 3 v. "What most strikes us in opening the volumes here and there at random is the extreme lucidity of Sir William Siemens's style both as a writer and a speaker. Not only is each statement clear in itself, but the arrangement of matter and order of thought are precisely what are required for luminous exposition. The papers include explanations of his own numerous inventions, together with presidential addresses, and popular lectures. The discussions relate to every branch of mechanical and electrical engineering." -Athenæum, June

15.

Simon, J. F. S. S. dit J. Souviens-toi du deuxdécembre.

"Ce volume est mieux qu'un volume de circonstances, et il survivra á l'agitation électorale au milieu de laquelle il s'est produit." — Le livre, 10 av.

Smith, L. A. Through Romany songland.

"A compilation, and at second hand. It is not uninteresting, but it is purely popular, and of no value for anything like serious study of gipsy verse." — Sat. rev., August. 3.

Tallyrand Périgord, C: M. de, prince de Bénévent. Lettres inédites à Napoléon, 1800-09; avec introd. et des notes par P: Bertrand. Theal, G: M. History of South Africa, 1854-72. "Mr. Theal is not only their most thorough historian, their ardent panegyrist and subtle apologist, but he has the knack of telling his story with an air of guileless candor and impartiality that can hardly fail to exercise a persuasive effect upon many minds."- Athenæum, July 27.

Thomas à Kempis. The imitation of Christ; now for the first time set forth in rhythmic sentences according to the original intention of the author; with pref. by H. P. Liddon. "The form may be more impressive, and may be more readily retained in the memory of the reader than other versions, but it can hardly be said to possess those qualities which in the original have been compared to the Psalms or the Proverbs." - Sat. rev., July 27. Thompson, Sir H: Modern cremation; its history

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Woods, C: W. A month at Gastein; or, Footfalls in the Tyrol. [1873.]

Woods, M. L. Lyrics and ballads.

"Shows that Mrs. Woods has a native instinct for writing metrically. Delight in nature and in life, trust in the instincts of both, an intense pleasure in being simply alive and young, that delicious physical exhilaration which to many is an unknown sensation, all this has been felt and is rendered with admirable skill in a defiant lyric." — Athenæum, Mar. 8.

Zit and Xoe; their early experiences; by the au

author of "Lady Bluebeard."

Additions. 2d ser.]

BOSTON ATHEN AUM.

Aldenhoven, F. Itinéraire descriptif de l'Attique

et du Péloponèse. 1841.

Alger, J: G. Englishmen in the French Revolution.

"An extremely interesting volume of gossip about the English prisoners at Paris who were set free by the French Revolution, the English visitors to Paris during its continuance, the English enthusiasts who played a greater or less part in it, the English guillotined, and the English captives of Napoleon. Thoroughly reada ble, and will interest the general reader with a taste for the lighter side of history."— Athenæum, Aug. 17. Andresen, K: G. Sprachgebrauch und Sprachrichtigkeit im Deutschen. 1887. Apotheosis of the fine arts; authentic portraits of masters in painting, sculpture, and architecture; [description of Paul Delaroche's Hemicycle, with biog. sketch]. 1861. Archer, T. A. The crusade of Richard 1., 1189– 92. 1888. (Eng. hist. by contemp. writers.) Armaillé, M.. C. A. de S., comtesse d'. Madame

Elizabeth; sœur de Louis XVI. 1886. Aubert, F. Le parlement de Paris, de Philippe-leBel à Charles VII., 1314-1422; son organisation. 1886.

Austin, Mrs. J.. G. Standish of Standish; a story of the Pilgrims.

Bacallar y Sanna, V., marqués de San Felipe. Comentarios de la guerra de Espana e historia de su rey Phelipe v., [1700-25. 1729?]. 2 v. Bagehot, W. Works; with memoirs by R. H. Hutton; ed. by F. Morgan. 5 v.

Ballad of the emu. Ms.

Ballou, M. M. The new Eldorado; a summer journey to Alaska.

Barr, Mrs. A. E. H. Feet of clay.

"A tale of the Manx fisher folk, encumbered with an elaborate and improbable romance of a wicked young squire. Mrs. Barr is at her best in such books as 'Jan Vedder's wife' she is not at all at her ease in the realms of the fashionable forger, and we hope that she will revert to her older and simpler style." Athenæum, Aug. 24.

Barrett, F. Honest Davie. 1883. (Franklin Sq. lib.)

Barrows, C. M. Annals of the Boston Life Underwriters' Association, 1888.

Besant, W. To call her mine, etc.

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"Three lengthy tales. To call her mine,' is al most, if not quite, as good as Katherine Regina, and both are distinctly better than Self or Bearer.'

There is a little too much of Man (with a big M) and of woman (with a small w) in this book as elsewhere in his writings." - -W: Sharp in the Academy, July 13. Blavatsky, Mme. H. P. The secret doctrine; the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy. 1888. 2 v.

Bode, W: Italienische Bildhauer der Renaissance. 1887.

"The purpose is to throw new light, especially on those epochs in the development of plastic art in Italy, about which heretofore misconceptions have prevailed, by critically examinining the collection of sculptures in the Berlin Museum. The arguments tend to conclusions which, if accepted, would become the foundation of a new history of Italian art, being based on principles that are the very negation of our generally received views. The foundation stones for such a novel edifice are to be found, according to Dr. Bode, in the late acquisitions of the Berlin Museum, most of them due to his own indefatigable exertions."- Academy, Sept. 1,

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"This Danish critic [author of Eminent authors of the nineteenth century],' in the first part of the book, gives his personal observations of life and character, with anecdotes of the mysticism and frankness, the popular superstitions, the reformers, and the foreign and educational policy of the government. In the second part, Russian literature is considered, the charac teristics of the novelists and other writers, some of whom are not generally known, like Schevtchenko, the poet of little Russia, are analyzed."

Buchanan, R. The heir of Linne. 1888. 2 v. Canning, Hon. A. S. G. Literary influence in British history; an historical sketch.

"Mr. Canning is not pretentious; he is industrious after his way; he has selected a subject on which a really brilliant book might be written. But he has taken his literary knowledge apparently from 'manuals' his historical knowledge from popular histories. By far the larger part of the work has nothing to do with 'Literary influence on British history,' but is simply an ill-arranged series of remarks on certain British authors. Literature and history in England considered in the light of manuals and Macaulay' would have been the better title, and even then it would be rather hard on Macaulay and the manuals." - Sut. rev., Sept.

14.

Carlyle, Mrs. J.. W. Early letters, with a few of later years, and some of T: Carlyle, hitherto unpublished; ed. by D: G. Ritchie. "Admirably edited volume. Carlyle's twelve letters might have been spared, as they throw no fresh light on his character, and add but little to the abundant inform ation we have about him; but all the forty-three written by his wife are valuable. Had the writer been other. wise unknown, they would have been welcome for their illustration of the brightness and shrewdness of a Scotch lassie sixty or seventy years ago who had no wider knowledge of the world than she could get during a few short visits to Edinburgh, and of the remarkable good sense with which she afterwards adapted herself to the conditions of her married life."- Athenæum, June 29. Cattermole, R: Literature of the Church of Eng

land, indicated in selections from the writings of eminent divines, with memoirs of their lives, and historical sketches. 1844.

2 v.

Catullus, Q. V. Liber; recog. app. crit. proleg. app. add. R. Ellis. 1878.

Chaudordy, le comte de. La France en 1889.

M. de Chaudordy sketches a liberal programme which is based on a spirit of compromise, and would according to him reconcile modern France to the France of the past." "Athenæum, July 6.

Chenevière, A. Secret amour.

"Un roman décent sans austerité,sage sans pédantisme, délicat sans fadeur, distingué sans prétention, n'est pas une chose très commune aujourd'hui Secret, amour par M. Adolphe Chenevière, a tous ces mérites, et d'autres

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