... "Has some value as a guide-book, but its psychologi cal interest is still greater. The travellers seem to have had for their chief aim the promotion of a union between the Anglican and Greek Churches. The author had unusual opportunities of observing, and was by no means blind in remarking the characteristic traits of the monastic system of the Dark Ages in that most wonderful historical survival in the world which exists still on Mount Athos that museum of living antiquities, and of still adored relics." Athenæum, Aug. 6. Robertson, J: D. Handbook to the coinage of Scotland, from Alexander 1 to Anne. 1878. Robinson, P. Cyprus and Sokotra; physical, etc., aspects. 1878. Roux, J., l'abbé. Nouvelles pensées. "Il lui déplait qu'on attribue une large part du succès de son premier volume à les sourds tressaillements de révolte qu'on avait cru y sentir. Cependant, tel est son épanouissement d'avoir échangé sa dure chaise de petit curé contre un fauteuil bien capitonné de chanoine, qu'il semble justitier les vieux griefs d'aigreur, de mécon tentement, et de sourde révolte. Un peu trop de mauvaise humeur alors; un peu trop de joie rayonnante aujourd'hui." Maximo Gaucher in Rev. pol. et lit., 9 avril. Rowbotham, J: F: History of music. Vol. 3. "Completes the elaborate and masterly work. Mr. Rowbotham's style has a charm about it all his own. It is not merely that he writes with complete knowledge and an immense research, but that he follows out the 'ethos' of his subject, Homeric hexameter, or Sopho. clean chorus, or Gregorian chant, besides putting the scene before his reader with a vividness and a felicity of language rarely equalled." - Bookseller, Aug. 5. Rudelbach, A. G. Hieronymus Savonarola u. seine Zeit. 1835. Sachs, H. Hans Sachs im Gewande seiner Zeit, u.s.w. 1829. Sarazin, C: Récits sur la dernière guerre franco allemande, 1870-71. "A very remarkable little volume." Nation, June 9. Secchi, A. Le soleil. 1875-77. 2 v. Shirley, J: M. The Dartmouth College causes and the Supreme Court of the U. S. 1879. Sighart, J. Albertus Magnus; sein Leben u. seine Wissenschaft. 1857. Simms, F: W. Treatise on levelling; with Telford's rules; added, tables, by J. H. Alexander. [1837.] Simon, J. F. S. S. J., dit. Victor Cousin. (Les grands écrivains français.) "Ce volume qui m'a charmé n'est nullement didactique et académique. C'est une causerie, et l'on sait qu'il n'y a pas de plus séduisant causeur que M. Jules Simon."-Maxime Gaucher in Rev. pol. et lit. Memoir of a Smart, B: H. (pseud. F. Drake). metaphysician. 1853. Strobel, G: T. Melanchthoniana, od. Sammlung einiger Nachrichten zur Erleuterung d.Gesch. M., etc. 1771. Sutcliffe, Col. T: 16 years in Chile and Peru, 1822-39; by the retired governor of Juan Fernandez. [1841.] Swift, J. 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But greatness alone could not have insured,nor could perseverance alone have command ed,three of his good fortunes: that Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his portrait; that Mr. James Boswell wrote his biography; and that his wife said of him that he was the most sensible man she had ever met.' "-New Princeton rev., Sept. Bragge, F. Full and impartial account of the witchcraft practis'd by J.. Wenham upon A.. Thorn, etc. 1712. Braune, K: Monnika und Augustinus. 1846. Brueckmann, F. E. Epistolarium itinerariarum centuria I, II. 1728-53. 4 v. Cabot, J. E. Memoir of R: W. Emerson. 2 v. Caix de Saint-Aymour, A. vte. de. Portugal, avec une introd., etc. 1886. Cassino, S: E. The international scientists' directory. 1882. Cavalli, H. Tableaux comparatifs des mesures, poids, et monnaies mod. et anciens. 1874. Caverni, R. Problema naturali di Galileo Galilei e di altri autori della sua scuola. 1874. Cerfberr, A. C. J. Répertoire de la Comédie humaine de H. de Balzac; avec introd. de Paul Bourget. 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Illustrated, printed, and published in Túkiô, they are Japanese to look at; yet when you come to read them you find that what you have in hand is for all the world like an English fairy tale. The material is genuine of course. These are Japanese folk-stories of the purest type, but the translators have Anglicized them in the telling, and they will go without much difficulty in harness with Perrault and Grimm." — Sat. rev., Mar. 26. Lucas, Rev. J. The pleasures of a pigeon-fancier. "Very slight, and hardly worthy of her; but it is skilful and fluent, and is well worthy the thirty minutes it takes to read." J. A. Hamilton in the Academy, Aug. 6. Manhattan, The; illustrated literary magazine. Vol. 2. [1883.] Maverick National Bank. Manual, July 1, 1887. Meier (Lat. Meigerius), S: De panurgia lamiarum, sagarum, strigum, etc. lib. 111, Germ. [1587.] Mercer, A. G. Bible characters; selections from sermons, with memoir of [M.] by M. Marble. 1885. 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Discours et conférences. Reusch, E. Capita deorum et illustrium hominum quaedam in gemmis incisa, coll. J: M. ab Ebermayer; enarr., illust. E. R. 1721. Richard, l'abbé J. La théorie des songes. 1766. Robertson, W. Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and her descendants through her marriage with John Rolfe, with biog. sketches; and illust. hist. notes by R. A. Brock. Rogers, S: Recollections of the table-talk of S: Rogers, added, Porsoniana ed. by Rev. A. Dyce; illust. "Rogers died scarcely more than thirty years ago, yet his recollections carry the reader back to old-world Incidents, and to a state of society curiously unlike that with which we are familiar. The Table-talk,' weak though it may be in some ways, is well worthy of a reprint." Spectator, Aug. 6. Saint-Edme, E. T. B., called. ... Dictionnaire de la pénalité; [illust.]. 1824-28. 5 v. Saintsbury, G: Manchester. 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