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book had been written in England. We do not say that 
the French correspondence is so interesting to English 
readers as the domestic would have been; but both have 
their value; and we are grateful to M. Guizot for that 
which he has given us. His calm sobriety is especially 
suited to the task of unwinding the meshes of that 
tangled web in which Monk’s cunning enclosed every- 
body of any importance. M. Guizot’s subject gives him 
also an opportunity of dwelling upon the jealousies and 
weaknesses of the republicans —to him an ever congenial 
theme. He delineates the leaders of that party as ex~- 
tremely perverse and impracticable, and describes the 
result as in great part proceeding from their mutual 
jealousies and want of unity. Whether this be true or 
not, we will not determine. In England, as in other 
countries in which they have had rule for a brief period, 
the real republicans were never more than a small mino- 
rity of the people. 
Thanks to Mr. Gosse and his fellow naturalists, who 
have shown how to keep Marine Aquaria, and to the ex- 
ertions of Mr. Lloyd, who has found means to supply 
London lovers of nature with all the materials necessary 
for their construction, they are now almost universal as 
drawing-room ornaments. But they are more than mere 
ornaments; they are instruments of study, and incentives 
to a desire for a knowledge of the natural history of the 
great deep. To spread abroad such a knowledge has 
been one of the main objects of Mr. Gosse in all his de- 
lightful writings. But we doubt whether any volume he 
has yet produced is better calculated to effect such object 
than Tenby, a Seaside Holiday, which he has just issued, 
and in which he gives a detailed record of a summer 
visit to Tenby, and of all his tide-pool explorations, cavern 
searchings, microscopic examinations,—-in short, of his 
daily doings as a naturalist. Mr. Gosse’s book will, we are 
sure, tempt many to Tenby; and when there, go far to 
make them thoroughly acquainted with all the wondrous 
works of nature to be found in that beautiful locality. It 
is indeed a most delightful and instructive volume; and 
though especially adapted to Tenby, will be found a most 
agreeable and instructive companion to visitors to every 
part of the sea-side. 
The new number of The Quarterly is amusing almost 
beyond The Quarterly’s average. Besides its political 
articles on the Peace and its Effects on Turkey, and on 
Montalembert, it has pleasant chatty papers on British 
Family Histories and The Haldanes; an interesting 
notice of the mammoth vessel ‘The Great Eastern,’ now 
building at Blackwall; and good critical articles on Sir 
G. Cornewall Lewis’s Early Roman History, on Ruskin, 
and on Southey’s Letters, —the last containing a thorough 
vindication of the elder Murray— Glorious John —from 
some charges of illiberality in his dealings with the Lau- 
reate, which we feel assured Southey himself would not 
now haye given to the world. 
“We learn with pleasure,” says The Illustrated London 
News of Saturday last, “that Messrs. Whittaker & Co., 
the proprietors of Mr. Collier’s well-known and highly 
esteemed edition of Shakspeare, published in 1843, in 
eight volumes 8vo., have just concluded an agreement 
with Mr. Collier for a revised and cheap reprint of it, in 
six 8vo. volumes. Mr. Collier’s edition is especially 
valuable for the fulness and accuracy of its collations 
with the early quartos.” 
Among the important announcements in the list pre- 
fixed by Mr. Murray to the Quarterly, is that of A New 
Biographia Britannica, by various hands, In announcing 
this undertaking the editor and publisher invite the co- 
operation of all men of letters who have given attention 
to special biographical subjects, or who possess docu- 
ments illustrating the lives of all particular persons, and 
who are requested to communicate to the editor of the 
Biogrtphia Britannica, care of Mr. Murray, Albemarle 
reet. 
We are glad to announce that Mr. Winter Jones has 
been appointed Keeper of the Printed Books of the British 
Museum, feeling well assured that under his watchful 
superintendence the monstrous deficiencies which now 
exist in the Department of English Literature will be 
supplied as rapidly as opportunities permit. 
Booxs Recrivep. — Popular Music of the Olden Time, 
&c., by William Chappell, F.S.A. This sixth part, which 
treats of the music of the reign of James the First, more 
than equals its predecessors in interest. It contains also 
some admirable old English tunes. 
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by various 
Writers. Edited by William Smith, LL.D. Part XV. 
This important work is rapidly approaching completion. 
The present part extends from Pytho to Thalassi, and 
how complete the work will be, may be judged of by the 
fact that the article Roma occupies about 130 pages, and 
is profusely illustrated with woodcuts. 
The Life and Adventures of Jules Gérard, the Lion 
Killer. This new volume of Lambert’s Amusing Library 
Sor Young and Old, comprising Gérard’s Campaigns among 
the Lions of Northern Africa, is very appropriately intro- 
duced into this cheap but well printed series, 
The Two Cottages — 
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Are two new issues of Parker’s excellent series of Tules 
Sor the Young Men and Women of England. 
The Pilgrim’s Progress, for the Use of Children in the 
English Church. Edited by the Rey. J. M. Neale, M.A. 
The words “second edition” in the title-page show the 
success which has attended Mr. Neale’s arrangement of 
Bunyan’s wondrous allegory. 
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