HTFKAin:i: AND I.ITKI:.\I:Y PROGRESS 



1866. 





Wat fr 



1 Mr. \V. An-!. -II Day has told the 

 ndence of 1808, 

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I." of \vi.rl.s having reference to the 



M'Mtal war <>f l.-i<f Bummer, we must men- 



tion Mr. 1-MwardDk-oyV iWtle-fieldsoflSfie," 



mm hi* letters to a London daily 



of which ho was the special corre- 



Iu ! !!m<;i:.\iMiY we find a work 



n of I.ady Arabella 

 ', including nuinerons Original and Un- 

 puMi-h I I loi-umcnts," l>y Miss Elizabeth 

 r, from whom we have already had " A 

 Popular History of America." Miss Harriet 

 Parr has produced two volumes entitled "The 

 i 1 n.-ath of Jeanne d'Aro, called 'The 

 Mai.!.' M Under this heading of "Historical Bi- 

 ; iy " comes also the third volume of Signor 

 Ma/zini's "Life and Writings," as it is autobio- 

 graphical in its contents, and traces the career 

 of the great Italian agitator from his youth to 

 the eve of the year 1848. Professor R. L. Dab- 

 ncy, D. D., of Richmond, Virginia, has pub- 

 lished vol. ii. of his "Life of Lieutenant-Gen- 

 eral Thi'inns J. Jackson" the famous "Stone- 

 wall " Jackson of the Confederate army. Miss 

 Strickland has written (from her own well- 

 known point of view) "The Lives of the Seven 

 Bishops committed to the Tower in 1C88," 

 illustrated with personal letters, now first pub- 

 lished, from the Bodleian Library; and the 

 '. <i. Brighton has compiled some "Me- 

 moirs of the late Admiral Sir B. P. V. Broke," 

 commander of the Shannon in her celebrated 

 duel wi;h our own Chesapeake. Mrs. Henry 

 Baring has edited the " Diary of the Right Hon. 

 William Windham," from 1784 to 1810 and 

 v side with this work we should mention 

 Mr. John Campbell Colquhoun's ""William 

 "\Villicrforce, his Friends and his Times." The 

 gallant old hero of the Peninsula and of Bhurt- 

 pore Lord Combermere has been commemo- 

 rated in two volumes of biography and corre- 

 spondence, the joint production of Lady Com- 

 bcrmcre and Captain W. W. Knollys. Scotch 

 ecclesiastical history has received some light 

 from a volume by the late Rev. James Young 

 " The Life of John Welsh, Minister of Ayr." 

 Lady Ellis has published a memoir of her late 

 husband, Lieutenant-General Sir S. B. Ellis, of 

 the Royal Marines', compiled from his own 

 memoranda. Earl Russell has added a third 

 volume to his "Life of Charles James Fox," 

 embracing the later years of Pitt's life. Mr. 

 .l.-iiii.s Murray has compiled in two volumes 

 the " Lives of Charles V., Leo X., and Eras- 

 mus;" and Mr. David II. Wheeler has trans- 

 . from the Italian of Einannele Celesia, 

 "The Conspiracy of Gianluigi Fieschi, or 

 a in the Sixteenth Century." 



In (ir.N'KRAi. BIOGRAPHY there was translated 

 from the German of Dr. Hcinrich Kreisslo von 

 Hellx.ni, by Mr. Edward Wilberforee, a life of 

 Franz Schubert, the musician. Lady Wallace 



very excellently rendered " Beethoven's I 



1 1826), from the Collection of Dr. Ludwi:.' 

 Sold." Mr. F. A. Srhw;irzeiib<-rg wrote in 

 English an account of the life of Alexander von 

 liiimltoldt ; and the Rev. Mr. Gill translated 

 from the French of M. Felix Bovet a work re- 

 lating the spiritual labors of Nicolas Louis Zin- 

 zendorf, to which has been given the title of 

 "The Banished Count." Another interesting 

 memoir, that of the Marchesa Giulia Falletti di 

 Harolo, has been presented to the English pub- 

 lic by means of a translation of Silvio Pellico's 

 biography of her, by Lady Georgiana Fnllerton. 

 The marchesa lived until January, 1864, when 

 she expired at an advanced age ; and a few ex- 

 tra pages by the translator complete the record 

 of her life. The work is interesting from the 

 systematic charity of her life, which was worthy 

 of all praise. Wherever a good work was .to 

 he done, she was eager in doing it ; and by her 

 courageous labors in the jails of Turin she has 

 earned a place among prison reformers, together 

 with John Howard, Mrs. Fry, and others, 

 der the title of " The Last Days in England of 

 the Rajah Rammohun Roy," Miss Carpenter 

 has written an account of that remarkable man 

 and his work. "The Pagan Christ of the 

 Third Century," Apollonius of Tyana, has been 

 made the subject of a short biographical essay 

 by M. R6ville, Doctor in Theology, and Pastor 

 of the Walloon Church in Rotterdam, which 

 has come before us in an English form. Miss 

 Bessie Rayner Parkes, in a little volume called 

 " Vignettes," has given us twelve biographical 

 sketches of Madame Swetchine, La Sceur Rosa- 

 lie, Madame Pape-Carpantier, Madame de La- 

 mar tine, Madame Luce, of Algiers, Governor 

 Winthrop's wife, Miss Cornelia Knight, Bianca 

 Milesi Mojon, Mrs. Delany, Harriot K. Hunt, 

 Miss Bosanquet, and Mrs. Jameson. Miss Mete- 

 yard has completed her " Life of Wedgwood," 

 which is now before the public in two magnifi- 

 cent volumes, adorned with several woodcut 

 copies of the best specimens of " Etrurian " 

 ware. From Miss Jane Whately we have the 

 "Life and Correspondence of Richard Whate- 

 ly, D. D., late Archbishop of Dublin." Of 

 Charles Lamb we have had two Memoirs during 

 the present year : the first by Mr. Percy Fitz- 

 gerald ; the second by Lamb's old and esteemed 

 friend, Mr. Bryan Waller Procter (" Barry Corn- 

 wall "). Mr. Sala has republished in a separate 

 volume his account of Hogarth, his works, and 

 his time, contributed to early numbers of the 

 Comhill. 



In politics Mr. Gladstone has published, in a 

 volume with an appendix, his " Speeches on 

 Parliamentary Reform in 1866," and several 

 pamphlets for and against the Bill of Reform 

 have made their appearance. Lord Hobart has 

 reproduced his " Political Essays " from Mac- 

 mUlin'i Magazine. The Rev. Frederick Deni- 

 son Maurice has published a trcikse on "The 

 Workman and the Franchise : Chapters in Eng- 

 lish History on the Representation and Educa- 

 tion of the'People." Mr, Shadworth II. Hodg- 



