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Speeches of the Managers and Coimsel in the Trial of 

 Warren Hastings. Edited hxj E. A. Bond, Vol. 1. Fub- 

 lished by the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Treasury. (Longman & Co.) 



Ihe recent events in our Indian possessions might Avell 

 serve to give value to the present volume, even if all in- 

 terest in the great Parliamentary Impeachment of War- 

 ren Hastings, stimulated by the hatred of Sir P. Francis, 

 carried on by the enthusiasm of Burke, and supported by 

 his eloquence and that of Sheridan, had entirely died 

 away. But this is far from the case, and it is greatly to 

 the credit of the government and to Sir G. Cornewall 

 Lewis, by whom its publication was suggested, that so im- 

 portant an addition as this should have been made to our 

 knowledge of that remarkable trial. The evidence, oral 

 and documentarj', was printed as the trial proceeded, and 

 occupies nine folio volumes. The present work will oc- 

 cupy four octavo volumes, and embrace the Speeches of 

 the Managers for the House of Commons in opening and 

 supporting the several Articles of Charge, and in sum- 

 ming up the evidence ; the answers of the Counsel for the 

 Defence, and the Replies to the Managers. The present 

 volume contains the Speeches of Burke on 15th, 16th, 

 18th, and 19th Feb. 1788 ; Speeches of Fox, Grey, An- 

 struther, Adam, and Pelham ; and that of Sheridan, de- 

 livered on 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 13th of June. It is clear, 

 therefore, that this is a book which must find a place in 

 every historical library. 



The Life ajid Times of Daniel De Foe. With Remarks 

 Digressive and Discursive. By William Chadwick. (Rus- 

 sell Smith.) 



This is one of those books for the publication of which 

 there Seems no adequate motive. Mr. Chadwick does not 

 profess to bring forward any new materials for the bio- 

 graphy of De Foe — and so to supersede Chalmers's brief 

 Life, Wilson's more elaborate performance, or Mr. For- 

 ster's brilliant sketch — but uses De Foe's Life and Works 

 as pegs on which to hang his own peculiar opinions. The 

 greatest merit of the book is its copious extracts from De 

 Foe's manly and nervous writings. 



Sermons preached in Westminster. By The Rev. C. F. 

 Secretan. (Bell & Daldy.) 



Although not in the habit of noticing Sermons, yet 

 having heard many of these preached, and knowing the 

 good_ which is being effected by the Westminster and 

 Fimlico Church of England Commercial School (in aid of 

 which they are published), we think we may venture to 

 assure our Readers, that if they help the School by the 

 purchase of these Sermons, they will at the same time 

 improve themselves by the perusal of them. 



Footpaths httiveen Two Worlds, and other Foems, hu 

 Patrick Scott. (Bell & Daldy.) 



Mr. Scott has employed his genius, and sometimes 

 very eloquently, in demonstrating, from the evidences af- 

 forded by this world, the hopes we may reasonably enter- 

 tain of that which is to come : while by his winning 

 earnestness he "allures to brighter worlds," he at the 

 same time clearly, and with considerable force, " points 

 the way. " On the Battle of Inkermann " is almost, if 

 not quite, the ablest poem on the subject that has come 

 under our notice. 



The Quarterly Review just issued is a very pleasant 

 number. Justice is done in the first article to Carlyle's 

 Frederick the Second. The Minstrelsy of Scotland is illus- 

 trated by an able and loving hand. The question of the 

 National Gallery and its removal to the British Museum 

 is carefully considered. The Baron Bunsen and tlie Chro- 



nology of the Bible well deserves the attention of all bibli- 

 cal students. The next article is one of those pleasant 

 gossiping sketches of count}' history Avhich have given so 

 much pleasant variety to the late Quarterlies. Devonshire 

 is the county now described. An article on Charles James 

 Fox, in which some justice is done to honest old George 

 the Third, is followed by one in which justice is also done 

 to Lord Brougham and Law Reform, The concluding 

 article is War in Italy, unhappily an article to which, 

 since it was written, events have given increased and 

 painful interest. 



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