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room to drawing-room, from ruelh to ruelh, listening to 

 all the gossip retailed by idle barristers, lawyers' clerks, 

 and famished poets, making memoranda of it, writing in 

 his journal the news of the Court and of the town, tran- 

 scribing the latest songs, the epigrams, the squibs, hand- 

 ing down to posterity the conversations carried on in the 

 apartments of the Abbe de Marigny or in the alcove of 

 Madame Cornuel. " Je pretends," says Tallemant, "dire 

 le bien et le mal sans dissimuler la verite . . . . je le fais 

 d'autant plus librement, que je spay bien que ce ne sont 

 pas des choses h. mettre en lumi&re." 



This last statement is naive enough, but it is true : a 

 great proportion of the anecdotes related by our author 

 will not bear the light ; but if on that account we are to 

 cast him away, we may as well throw at once into the 

 fire Pierre de I'Estoile, Dangeau, Barbier, Suetonius, and 

 the Count de Grammont. To go no farther, the Jlemoirs of 

 Saint Simon are full of anecdotes which cannot be deemed 

 very edifying in their character, but there is this difler- 

 cnce between the two author-:, tliat the nobleman de- 

 scribes the vices he was obliged to witness, onh' for the 

 pui-pose of branding them witli a red-hot iron, whilst 

 Tallemant des Reaux seeks everywhere only the oppor- 

 tunity of cracking a joke, or of making merrj- over a piece 

 of scandal. Nevertheless Tallemant is, with Saint Simon, 

 the best authority for the history of French society during 

 the seventeenth century. Both writers reveal to us in its 

 true colours that corruption which Voltaire's Steele de 

 Louis XIV. attenuates and endeavours to conceal. 



In M. Techener's edition the notes and ^claircissemenis 

 are verj' properly placed liy themselves as an appendix to 

 the chapters they severally illustrate. 



"Inventaire des Meubles, Bijoux et Livres e.'ilant Si 

 Chenonceaux le huit Janvier 1G03, precede' d'uneHistoire 

 sommaire de la Vie de Louise de Lorraine, Reine de 

 France, suivi d'une Notice snr le Chateau de Chenon- 

 ceaux, par le Prince Augustin Galitzin. 8°, Paris, J. 

 Techener." 



This elegant brochure is the production of a Russian 

 nobleman to whom we are indebted for many interesting 

 publications, relating chieily to the history of his own 

 country'. It comprises three distinct pieces, of which the 

 second is an original document belonging to the archives 

 of Clienonceaux. 



The biographical sketch of Loyse de Lorraine intro- 

 duces us to one of the most accomplished and virtuous 

 princesses which have ever graced the French tlirone. 

 The catalogue of her furniture, books, and jewels illus- 

 trates in a striking manner the private life of our fore- 

 fathers, and the volume appropriately terminates with a 

 short description of the chateau itself. Situated on the 

 banks of the river Cher, in Touraiue, Chenonceaux is well 

 worth the attention of artists and antiquaries. Catherine 

 de Medici, JIary Stuart, Francis L, Diane de Poitiers 

 lived there, thus giving to Thomas Boyer's beautiful 

 mansion the importance of a royal palace. A portrait of 

 Loyse de Lorraine and an engraving of Chenonceaux, 

 copied from Descarceau, complete the work. 



" Discoi4rs sur I'Oiigine des Rnssiens et de leur miracu- 

 lense Conversion par le Cai'dinal Baronius, traduict en 

 fran9ois par Blare Lescarbot, nouvelle edition, revue et 

 conigee par le Prince Augustin Galitzin. In-IG.* 



"Document relatif au Fatriarcat moscovite, 1589; -ra- 

 duit pour la premifcre fois en fran^ois par le Prince Galit- 

 zin. In-16." 



"Relation des Particularitez dela Rebellion de Stenko- 

 Razin contre le Grand-due de Moscovie; episode de I'his- 

 toire de Russie du xvii" sifecle, precede d'une introduction 

 et d'un glossaire. In-16." 



" Cosmographie moscovite par Andrd Thevet, recueillie 

 et publi€e isolemcnt pour la premifere fois, In-16." 



" Discours merveilleux et veritable de la Conqueste 

 faite par le Jeune Demetrius, en 1605; nouvelle Edition 

 publie'e et anaotee par le Prince Galitzin." Paris, J. 

 Techener. 



The above is a list of Prince Galitzin's various works 

 on the history of Russia. Besides being evidences of true 

 and enlightened patriotism, they are also very valuable 

 contributions to antiquarian literature. It is not difficult 

 to perceive what is the religious faith of the noble author; 

 although a true Russian in heart and soul, yet he belongs 

 to the Roman Catholic community ; and some of the 

 books published by him relate directly to the great 

 schism between the Eastern and Western Churches. The 

 Discours sur I'Origine and the Document relatif may be 

 classed under this head; — the Cosmographie 3Ioscovite is 

 detached from the larger work of Andre Thevet, a Fran- 

 ciscan monk living in the sixteenth century, and the first 

 Frenchman who has left us a detailed and conscientious 

 account of Russia; — in the Eclat ioti des Particularites, 

 Prince Galitzin has reprinted the narrative of a remark- 

 able episode of Russian history ; — Gnally, the Discours 

 Merveilleux is the French translation of Barezzo Barezzi's 

 Relazione della segtialatn e come miracolosa Conqnista del 

 paterno Impcrio coiiseguita dal Serenis. Giovane Demelrio 

 Granduca di Aloscovia in cjuest' an7io 1605. This version, 

 printed for the first time in 1606, is (small 8", 44 pages), 

 like all the other portions of the same series, fully 

 illustrated with notes and explanatory documents. We 

 strongly recommend to our readers the Bibliotheque Rus- 

 sienne. Gustave Wasson. 



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