QUARTERLY REVIEW.

JANUARY AND APRIL.

1868.

VOL. XLVII.

LONDON:

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

TATE JACKSON, WALFORD, AND HODDER),

47, PATERNOSTER ROW.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY BENJAMIN PARDON,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

Gógol's Works. 5 Vols. St. Petersburg: Bazunóff.

1865.

III. The Great Vatican MS. of the New Testament

1. Novum Testamentum Vaticanum, post Angeli Maii aliorumque imper-

fectos labores, ex ipso codice editit ENOTH FRED. CONSTANT. TISCH-

ENDORF. Lipsiae, 1867. 4to, pp. 334.

2. A New Plea for the Authenticity of the Text of the Three Heavenly

Witnesses. By the Rev. CHARLES FORSTER, B.D., Six Preacher of

Canterbury Cathedral. Deighton, Bell, & Co., Cambridge.

8vo. pp. 271.

IV. Longfellow's Dante

1. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

345

1867.

366

Translated by HENRY

WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. London: George Routledge & Sons;

New York: 416, Broome Street.

2. The Vita Nuova of Dante.

Notes, by THEODORE MARTIN.

West Strand. 1862.

1867.

Translated, with an Introduction and

London Parker, Son, and Bourne,

3. The Early Italian Poets, from Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri

(1100-1200-1300), in the Original Metres, together with Dante's

'Vita Nuova.' Translated by D. G. ROSSETTI. London: Smith,

Elder, & Co., Cornhill. 1861.

4. The Early Life of Dante Alighieri, together with the original in

parallel pages. By JOHN GARROW, A.M. Florence: printed by

Felix Le Monnier. 1846.

5. Dante's Divine Comedy; the Inferno: a literal Prose Translation,

with the Text of the Original.

London: Chapman & Hall. 1867.

V. Nonconformists and National Education

VI. Michael Faraday

By JOHN A. CARLYLE, M. A.

399

434

By MICHAEL FARADAY,

1. Experimental Researches in Electricity.

D.C.L., F.R.S. Vol. 1. 1839.

London: Taylor and Francis.

Vol. II. 1844. Vol. III. 1858.

2. Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, 1819-1830.

3. Philosophical Transactions, 1831-1855.

4. The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. By J. A. PARIS, M.D.

2 vols. London: Colburn and Bentley. 1831.

5. The Subject Matter of a Course of Six Lectures on the Non-Metallic

Elements. By PROFESSOR FARADAY. Arranged by J. Scoffern,

M.B., London: Longmans. 1853.

Union of Christendom in its Home Aspects. By the DEAN OF CANTER-

BURY. 'Contemporary Review.' February, 1868.

The Christian Conscience. By the DEAN OF CANTERBURY.

'Good

Words.' January, 1868.

VIII. The Irish Church Question

487

1. Letter to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., on the State

of Ireland. By JOHN, EARL RUSSELL. Longmans.

2. The Irish Church Question. A Letter to Lord Dufferin, K.P., etc.

By the Rev. ALFRED T. LEE, LL.D. Rivingtons.

3. The Contemporary Review.' March, 1868. Strahan and Co.

4. Speech of Edward Miall, Esq., M.P., in favour of the Impartial

Disendowment of all Sects in Ireland, delivered in the House of

Commons, May, 1856. Second Edition. Arthur Miall.

5. The Times Newspaper. March, 1868.

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ART.

IX. Contemporary Literature.

PAGE

506

History, Biography, and Travels.-Von Sybel's History of the French

Revolution. White's Massacre of St. Bartholomew. St. John's Life of

Sir Walter Raleigh. Skeates's History of the Free Churches. Quaker

Literature-Webb's Fells of Swarthmoor Hall; Penn's and Pennington,

Tallack's Thomas Shillitoe; Peter Bedford. Thoms's Hannah Lightfoot.-

Michelet's Histoire Louis XIV. Correspondance de Napoléon. Lanfrey's

Histoire de Napoléon. Marc Dufraisse's Histoire du Droit de Paix et de

Guerre. Hausonville's L'Eglise Romaine et le Premier Empire. La

Guerre's Souvenirs d'un Paysan. Souvenirs d'un Ex-officier. Vie de

Goethe. Castel's Histoire de la Restauration. Krummel's History of

the Bohemian Reformation. Howels's Italian Journeys. Wallace's

Desert and the Holy Land. Finn's Byeways in Palestine. Kingsley's

Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut. Sproat's Scenes and Studies of

Savage Life. Taylor's Christian Adventures in South Africa. Parkyns's

Life in Abyssinia. Henke's Life of Jacob Frederick Friés. Hender-

son's Life of James Ferguson. Cresswell's Memoirs of Elizabeth Fry.

Marsden's Memoirs of Hugh Stowell. Hudson's Queen Bertha and her

Times. Jacobi's Life and Works. St. Beuve's Nouveaux Lundis; Port

Royal. Montalembert's St. Columba. Christian Life in the Camp.

Politics, Science, and Art.-The Trinity of Italy. Keane's Towers and
Temples of Ancient Ireland. Innes's Law of Creeds in Scotland. Pat-
terson's Science of Finance. Cracroft's Essays. Morrell's Scientific
Guide to Switzerland. Brackenbury's European Armaments in 1867.
Edwards on the Ventilation of Dwelling Houses. Essays on State
Churches. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage.
Poetry, Fiction, and Belles Lettres.-Newman's Verses on Various Occa-
sions. George Macdonald's Disciple and other Poems. Owen Meredith's
Lucille; and Chronicles and Characters. Sheppard's Autumn Dream.
Alford's Year of Praise. Sir Roundell Palmer's Hymnal. Atherstone's
Fall of Nineveh. Clarendon Press Series-Hooker; Chaucer; Spenser.
The Queen's Journal. Hepworth Dixon's Spiritual Wives. Walford's
Representative Men. Mitchell's The Wedderburn's and their Work.
Thackeray's Collected Works. Basil Godfrey's Choice. Meg. Jeannie's
Quiet Life. Northern Roses. Springdale Abbey.
Stung to the Quick. Wizard of the Mountain.
Family. Kingsley's Robinson Crusoe.

Max Havelaar.
French Country

Theology, Philosophy, and Philology. -Chips from a German Workshop.

Physiology and Pathology of the Mind. Robertson's Life and Sermons.

Rogers's Essays from 'Good Words.' Human Society. Binney's From

Seventeen to Thirty. The Dervishes. Ante-Nicene Library. Obstacles

to Missionary Success among the Heathen. Studies of Character from

the Old Testament. Alford's How to Study the New Testament.

Maclear's Class Book of the Church of England Catechism. Devout

Thoughts by Deep Thinkers. Robertson's Pastoral Counsels. Blackey

and Hawes' Critical English Testament. Imperial Gazetteer. Haugh-

ton's Natural Philosophy. Caro's Le Matérialisme et la Science. Ber-

sier's Sermons. Pressensé's Etudes Evangeliques. Bungéner's St. Paul.

Pirie's Natural Philosophy. Wood's Analogies of Being. Duff's The

Sabbath on the Rock. Our Dispensation. Life and Reign of King

David. Kingsley's Discipline. Robinson's Christ is All, and in All.

Lawrie's Notes on Morals. Vaughan's Discourses on the Liturgy.

Sturm's Conferences with God. Gladstone's Ecce Homo.' Grote's

Review of Mill's Examination of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy. So-

phocli's Ajax. Wiese's Higher Schools of Prussia. Bachmann on the

Book of Judges. Bunsen's Bibelwerk. Frank's History of Protestant

Theology. Tischendorf's Origin of the Four Gospels. Young on

the Millenium. Mill's New Creation. Maurice's Ground and Object of

Hope for Mankind. Spong's Hero of the Desert. Jessie Coombs's

Bible Class Studies. Luckock's Tables of Stone. Rowland's Second

Table of the Commandments.

THE BRITISH

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

JANUARY 1, 1868.

ART. I.-Works by George MacDonald.

(1.) Within and Without. A Dramatic Poem. Longmans. (2.) Poems. Longmans.

(3.) Phantastes. A Faerie Romance. Smith, Elder, & Co.

(4.) The Portent. A Story of the Second Sight. Smith, Elder,

& Co.

(5.) David Elginbrod. A Novel. 3 vols. Hurst & Blackett. (6.) Alec Forbes of Howglen. 3 vols. Hurst & Blackett.

(7.) Adela Cathcart. 3 vols.

Hurst & Blackett.

(8.) Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood. Alexander Strahan. (9.) Unspoken Sermons. Alexander Strahan.

(10.) Robert Falconer. Alexander Strahan. (11.) Guild Court. Alexander Strahan.

(12.) Poems. Alexander Strahan.

&c. &c. &c.

PERHAPS the first impression derived from a perusal of George MacDonald's writings is that of their originality; but along with this impression comes another which might be thought to be inconsistent with it, namely, that the mind of their author has been the subject of many and varied influences, and that the originality by which it is now distinguished folds up in its embrace a host of derivative elements. No inconsistency is necessarily implied; for one originality is not as another originality. There is an originality of the rock in the sea, and an originality of the cultured garden; an originality, rugged and bare, with footing only for a little company of seabirds, and no music save that of the spray and the gale, and the long roll of ocean in chasm and cave; and an originality of waving blooms and clustered fruits and softly swelling foliage,

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