MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 407 



Louis Philippe. France is tired of him already ; and "quam Deus vult per- 

 dere, prius dementat," some act of Bourbon imbecility will soon banish, and if 

 so, we trust for ever, banish him and his family from the throne of France. 

 He has shown duplicity and falsehood in his dealings to the English ; but he 

 has not done less to those of his countrymen who handed him to the chair of 

 state and secured it by their bravery. If the English are disgusted, France is 

 much more so. The love of order is great in France ; and the security for 

 property consequent on civil order is most important. There is at present 

 great prosperity in that country, abundant capital, and regular demand for la- 

 bour, and very naturally there is an unwillingness to promote any great revul- 

 sion. Yet, happen it will, it must ere long, and it will be the fault of the 

 noble spirits of France if they again trust a family, not less baleful in their 

 influence to that country than were the Stuarts to England. The intellectual 

 majority of France agrees with that of England in the necessity of a mutual 

 confidence, and although the baseness of its monarch may for a time give 

 cause for a coolness between us, we are sure that no plausible reason can be 

 assigned why we should abandon our present alliance, an alliance between 

 nations not monarchs, in order to form one from which we cannot derive 

 nearly the same commercial advantages, and which in a defensive point of 

 view is both inconvenient as regards geographical position and inadequate in 

 moral and physical strength for the required object. We leave the pamphlet 

 for the reader's consideration. 



The Great Teacher. By the Rev. J. HARRIS. 8vo. pp. 427. Ward. 



THE present volume is fully worthy of the author of " Mammon." The writer 

 of this notice, though quite unknown to this excellent minister, is well 

 acquainted with his worth as a district-pastor, and can, from a knowledge 

 of the high talent ordinarily displayed in his congregational ministrations at 

 Epsom, vouch for the identity of mind with that so apparent in the volume 

 now offered to the reader's notice. It would obviously be quite improper for a 

 journalist who professes not to mix himself with any religious sect or party 

 whatever, to give any lengthened notice of a work decidedly theological. We 

 shall content ourselves with stating that the object of this treatise is "to point 

 out and illustrate the leading features of Christ's divine instructions; from 

 which it will appear that he was the best Teacher of his own religion, and that 

 his own personal ministry, as recorded in the evangelical history, dwelt on all 

 the essential doctrines of the Christian system, as afterwards ex'plained in the 

 apostolic writings ;" that the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ was authora- 

 tive original spiritual tender practical. 



There are many beautiful and highly edifying portions of this work, which, 

 if this were a theological miscellany, we should not hesitate to extract. We 

 have read the work with attention; and we are sure that no person of right 

 feeling can rise from the perusal without moral and religious improvement, 

 even setting aside all sectarianism. 



The Young Divine. By the Rev. W. FLETCHER. 24rno. Hailes. 



THIS seems to be a well-compiled little book on the scriptures ; but it is very 

 inferior to that excellent little compendium " The Companion to the Bible," 

 published by the Tract Society, of which the present seems to be a very hum- 

 ble imitation. The author wrote some good remarks on the late eclipse, and 

 his success has tempted him to eclipse if he could a book that shines in 

 spite of his minor fires. Credit would have been due to the author if the 

 whole had been conprised in a sixpenny tract ! 



The Works of Sallust, with notes, &c. By C. ANTHOX, LL. D. of 



U. S. J. R. Priestley. 

 THE name of Dr. Anthon is well known in America as being connected 



