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of the Warriors of the Thirty Years' "War," by 

 Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Edward Gust; "Bi- 

 ographies of eminent Soldiers of the Last Four 

 Centuries," by the lateMaj.-Gen. Smith, edited 

 by Dr. Leonard Schmitz; the " Life and Char- 

 acter of King John," by Mr. William Chadwick ; 

 and "Lives of the Tuscan Sculptors," by Mr. 

 Charles Perkins. 



Of Biographies of Single Individuals, the 

 following are of the greatest interest : " The 

 Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with 

 Notices of some of his Contemporaries," com- 

 menced by the late painter Leslie, and com- 

 pleted by Professor Tom Taylor ; " Life of 

 Thorwaldsen " from the Danish of J. M. Thiele, 

 translated and edited by Rev. Mr. Barnard ; 

 " Life of Michael Angelo," by Hermann Grimm, 

 translated by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett (re- 

 printed here); "Louis Spohr's Autobiogra- 

 phy ; " " Furioso ; or, Passages from the Life 

 of Ludwig Von Beethoven," and the "Life of 

 Von Weber," by his son, Baron Max Maria 

 Von Weber, all three translated from the Ger- 

 man ; two biographies of Josiah Wedgwood*; 

 one by Miss Meley, and finely illustrated, the 

 other by Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt, F. S. A., 

 smaller, and without illustrations; "The Life 

 and Career of Dr. Dodd," the Clerical Forger, 

 by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald ; " The Life and An- 

 thropological Treatises of Blumenbach," trans- 

 lated and edited by Mr. Thomas Bendyshe; 

 " The Life of John Clare," the peasant poet, 

 by Mr. Frederick Martin; "Memoirs of Sir 

 Richard Steele and his Contemporaries," by 

 Mr. II. R. Montgomery, two volumes; the 

 "Autobiography of Sir Benjamin Brodie," 

 edited by Mr. Charles Hawkins. F. R. C. S. ; a 

 third volume of Mr. Charles Knight's Auto- 

 biographical " Passages of a Working Life 

 during Half a Century ; " " Biographical Me- 

 moir of Samuel Hartlib, Milton's Familiar 

 Friend," by Mr. Dircks, and a " Life of the Sec- 

 ond Marquis of Worcester," by the same author ; 

 " Lives of Boulton and Watt, principally from 

 the Soho MSS., comprising also a History of the 

 Invention and Introduction of the Steam En- 

 gine," by Samuel Smiles; "The Journal and 

 Correspondence of Miss Berry from 1783 to 

 1852" (Miss Berry was the friend of Horace 

 Walpole, Hannah More, and most of the notabil- 

 ities of the latter part of the eighteenth cen-J 

 tury, and the early part of the nineteenth), by 

 the late Lady Theresa Lewis ; Life and Letters 

 of the late Frederick W. Robertson, of Bright- 

 on," edited by Mr. Stopford A. Brooks (re- 

 printed here). 



In Theological and Religious Literature, the 

 principal works were u The New Testament for 

 English Readers," by the Dean of Canterbury 

 (Henry Alford, D. D.) ; " The Holy Bible with 

 Notes and an Introduction," by Canon Words- 

 worth ; " Progress of Doctrine in the New 

 Testament," Bampton Lectures for 1865, by 

 Rev. Mr. Barnard; "Discussions on the Gos- 

 pels," by Rev. Dr. Roberts: The Fifth part of 

 Bishop Colenso's work on the Pentateuch, 



" The Hidden Wisdom of Christ, 1 ' by Mr. Ernst 

 Bunsen ; " The Non-Eternity of Future Pun- 

 ishment," by Rev. James Barlow ; a History of 

 German Rationalism, by Professor Hagenbach ; 

 " The Critical History of Christian Literature," 

 by Mr. Donaldson ; " Christendom's Divisions," 

 by Mr. E. Ffaulkes; "History of the Early 

 Scottish Church," by Rev. T. McLauchlan; 

 "The Reform of the Church of Scotland," by 

 Dr. Lee, of Old Greyfriars. On controversial 

 topics there were "Judgments of the Judicial 

 Committee of the Privy Council " on Theologi- 

 cal Questions; "An Eirenicon," by Dr. E. B. 

 Pusey ; " Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost," 

 by Archbishop Manning ; " Essays on Religion 

 and Literature," edited by Archbishop Man- 

 ning (the last three reprinted here) ; " Catholic 

 Missions," by Messrs. Strickland and Marshall. 



In Intellectual and Moral Science, there were 

 several works of remarkable ability. Among 

 them were " The Secret of Hegel, being the 

 Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form, 

 and Matter," by Mr. James Hutcheson Ster- 

 ling ; " An Examination of Sir W. Hamilton's 

 Philosophy, and of the Principal Philosophical 

 Questions discussed in his Writings," and " Au- 

 guste Comte and Positivism," both by Mr. John 

 Stuart Mill (reprinted here) ; " Vindication of the 

 Hamiltonian Philosophy," by Mr. James Hutch- 

 eson Sterling ; " The Conformation of the Mate- 

 rial by the Spiritual, and the Holiness of Beauty," 

 by Mr. W. Cave Thomas ; "A Treatise on Logic, 

 Pure and applied," by Mr. S. H. Emmeus; 

 " The Argument, a priori, for the Moral Attri- 

 butes of God," by Mr. W. H. Gillespie; "Plato 

 and the other Companions of Socrates," by Mr. 

 George Grote, three volumes; "Time and 

 Space," by Mr. S. H. Hodgson ; " " Studies of 

 Ethical and Social Subjects," by Miss Frances 

 Power Cobbe ; "Recent British Philosophy," 

 by Professor David Masson ; "History of the 

 Mathematical Theory of Probability, from the 

 Time of Pascal to that of Laplace," by Mr. Tod- 

 hunter ; " Spiritual Philosophy founded on the 

 Teaching of Samuel Taylor Coleridge," by Mr. 

 Joseph Henry Green; "The Emotions and the 

 Will," a new and enlarged edition, by Mr. 

 Alexander Bain. 



In AOTIQUARIANISM, TOPOGRAPHY, AXD FOLK 

 LORE, departments of literature not cultivated to 

 any considerable extent in the United States, nu- 

 merous works were published ; some of the most 

 interesting were "The Romance of London," 

 three volumes by John Timbs ; " Haunted Lon- 

 don," by Walter Thornbury; "Highways and 

 Byeways of the City," by the author of "Lon- 

 don Scenes and London People;" " The Great 

 Schools of England," by Howard Staunton, giv- 

 ing the past history, present condition, and pros- 

 pects of Eton, Winchester, Westminster, St. 

 Paul's, and other endowed schools of England ; 

 " Memorials of the King's School, Canterbury," 

 by Rev. J. S. Sidebotham ; " Popular Genealo- 

 gists," giving the history of Sham Family Trees ; 

 " History and Antiquities of Masham and Mash- 

 amshire," by Mr. John Fisher; " Introductory 



