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forty thousand, it may have been double that number ; 

 and so effectually did they carry on their work of de- 

 struction, that Ranke asserts it " entirely disappeared, 

 and is no longer to be found ; " and Macaulay remarks 

 that " the Inquisitors detected in it the Lutheran doctrine 

 of justification by faith alone; thej' proscribed it; and it 

 is now as hopelessly lost as the second decade of Livy." 

 Happilj' this is not the case ; the original work and early 

 English and French translations of it are here preserved, 

 and edited with a scrupulous fidelity as creditable to Mr. 

 Babington as the scholarship by which he has illustrated 

 the history of this remarkable book. 



One of "the most interesting and readable books of the 

 present season is Dr. Doran's Lives of the Queens of Eng- 

 land of the House of Hanover. The history of the four 

 royal ladies — Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I. ; Caro- 

 line of George IL, Charlotte of George III., and Caroline 

 of George IV. — presents a picture of the Court of Eng- 

 land for a period of more than a hundred years. Dr. 

 Doran has dissected the manners of the times with free- 

 dom, and filled his volumes with anecdotes of court and 

 aristocracj', which tell extremelj' well. Whatever may 

 have altered amongst us for the worse, it is plain that 

 our court has infinitely improved. The tales of vice 

 which appear in Dr. Doran's pages in connexion with the 

 courts of the first, second, and fourth Georges are sick- 

 ening. Great is the relief which the reader receives from 

 the renovation of manners effected by Queen Charlotte. 

 Still greater would have been the contrast, and the book 

 would have terminated more agreeably, if it had come 

 within the author's plan to follow the painful life of the 

 last Caroline with that of the amiable and benevolent 

 Adelaide. Dr. Doran's vivacity of style, and abundance 

 of illustration are remarkable ; nor is he less successful 

 in carrying his reader cleverly, and with continuous 

 interest, through the occasional details which are ne- 

 cessarv for the development of his story. 



Of feendrik Conscience, the Flemish novelist, it may 

 be trulv said that he awoke one morning and found 

 himself famous. Writing in a language which is familiar 

 to comparatively few, he owes to his own merits alone 

 the European reputation which he now enjoys. There is 

 a truthfulness in his pictures which is perfectly delight- 

 ful ; while the whole moral tone of his works is such as 

 to make them a valuable addition to the light reading 

 division of a library. Messrs. Lambert, therefore, are 

 doing good service in publishing well- executed trans- 

 lations of them; and if the whole of the series is as 

 carefuHv done as the first three volumes — which con- 

 tain 1. The Curse of the Village, and the Happiness of 

 being Rich ; 2. The Lion of Flanders, or the Battle of the 

 Spurs ; 3. Veva, or the War of the Peasants — we cannot 

 doubt that the speculation will be as profitable to them 

 as creditable to Hendrik Conscience. 



We have good news for our historical students — the 

 third and fourth volumes of Macaulay's History of Eng- 

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 are about to issue in monthly volumes a collected edition 

 of the writings of Professor Wilson. The series will 

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Books Received. — A Manual of Gothic Stone Carv- 

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 publisher's (Parker of Oxford) more expensive publica- 

 tions have found their way into the offices of architects. 

 The design is a good one, and can scarcely fail of success. 



Frederic the Second, by the Rt. Hon. T. B. Macaulay. 

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