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which relates to the recent war is " The His- 

 tory of the War of 1870," from the practised 

 pen of Wolfgang Menzel. As the work ap- 

 peared pari passu with the events, it is natu- 

 rally fall of inaccuracies; still, upon the 

 whole, it gives a vivid picture of the great 

 drama. In it the old BurscJienschafter, whom 

 Borne nick-named the " Eater of Frenchmen," 

 saw the dream of his whole life fulfilled when 

 the empire was restored, and Alsace and Lor- 

 raine surrendered to his nation. The recovery 

 of these provinces, which till the year 1689 

 the year when Strasbourg was lost played a 

 glorious part in German history, has occa- 

 sioned a flood of writings about the civiliza- 

 tion and history of Alsace, the best of which 

 is the work of two Vienna professors, Sherer 

 and Lorenz. 



Death has been busy this year among German 

 literary celebrities. Prince Pilckler-Muskau, 

 the eccentric but clever author of the "Letters 

 of a Dead Man," once well known abroad, 

 is now really dead. Another member of the 

 high aristocracy of Germany, the celebrated 

 author of " Griseldis," Frederick Halm (Frei- 

 herr von Munch-Bellinghausen), has passed 

 away at Vienna. The third great loss of the 

 year is Prof. Gervinus. 



HOLLAND. There has, upon the whole, been 

 no marked increase in the number of publica- 

 tions in Holland in 1871, as compared with 

 1870. Theology has been by no means neg- 

 lected. The celebrated Utrecht professor, J. J. 

 van Oosterzee, has published a hand-book of 

 " Christian Dogmatics," while Dr. A. C. Duker 

 and Dr. W. C. von Manen are engaged upon a 

 joint work, "The Writings of the Apostolic 

 Fathers," of which the first volume has ap- 

 peared. B. ter Haar, who is a poet of repute 

 as well as a theologian, has finished the third 

 period of his " Historiography of Church His- 

 tory," the period which extends from Flacius 

 to Semler; and the meritorious Prof. W. Moll, 

 of Amsterdam, has finished his " Church His- 

 tory of Holland since the Reformation," and 

 has added the necessary indices. J. J. van 

 Toorenenbergen has edited a handsome edition 

 of the spiritual writings of the famous Ph. 

 van Marnix de St. Aldegonde, and De lloop- 

 Scheffer has continued, in conjunction with 

 Prof. Moll, to issue his " Studies," which form 

 a valuable contribution to historical theology. 

 It is also worthy of mention that 0. Broere's 

 "Essay upon the Return to Catholicism of 

 Hugo Grotius" has been translated into Ger- 

 man, and the same honor has been bestowed 

 upon an article by C. P. Tiele, which appeared 

 in the January number of the Gids, called 

 " Max Miiller and Fritz Schultze upon a Prob- 

 lem of Religious Knowledge." 



Philosophy has attracted little attention, 

 comparatively speaking. 



In the department of History, on the con- 

 trary after theology and philology, the study 

 most affected by the Dutch great activity 

 has been manifested. Various episodes in the 



annals of the seventeenth century have been 

 admirably handled by G. A. Vorsterman, Dr. 

 L. Beins, and J. G. R. Acquoy. The first men- 

 tioned has described the siege of Aardenburg, 

 1672 ; Dr. Beins has treated of the foreign 

 policy of the great De Witt between 1653 and 

 1660; while M. Acquoy has written a biogra- 

 phy of the Dutch naval hero, Herm. de Ruy- 

 ter, Backer Dirks has celebrated the triumphs 

 of the Dutch navy, from the Peace of Nyme- 

 gen down to the fall of the republic in 1795, 

 and Theod. Jorissen has compiled a monograph 

 on the extinction of the kingdom of Holland 

 in 1810. A second edition has appeared of 

 Captain Pompe's " Annals of the Colonial Pos- 

 sessions of Holland ; " and D. E. Sluys has is- 

 sued a " Hand-book of Jewish History," in two 

 handsome volumes. Among histories of Hol- 

 land, the books of Prof. W. G. Brill, of Utrecht, 

 and of J. H. van Linschoten, are worthy of 

 attention. That respectable writer, W. Nuy- 

 ens, promises a work on the same subject, from 

 a Roman Catholic point of view : the first 

 volume of it has just appeared. Partly of an 

 historical and partly of a geographical nature, 

 is the admirable monograph of Baudet, of 

 Utrecht, upon the renowned cartographer of 

 the seventeenth century, Willem Jansz Blaeu. 



Holland, it is well known, possesses some 

 eminent Orientalists. The most distinguished 

 of them are Dozy, De Goeje, and H. Kern. 

 They have not remained inactive. Dozy has 

 published " Critical Remarks upon the Text of 

 Al Makkari ; " De Goeje has brought out the 

 first volume of a "Bibliotheca Geographo- 

 rum Arabicorum ; " and Kern a work entitled 

 " Kawi Studies." Besides, H. C. Klinkert has 

 translated a selection of fables from the "Pand- 

 ja-Tandara; " and C. J. Tornberg has continued 

 his elaborate edition of " The Chronicle of 

 Jbn-e"l-Athiri," and T. Roorda has issued a 

 new edition of J. F. C. Gericke's Javanese- 

 Dutch Dictionary. 



Talking of dictionaries, we may mention the 

 lexicon of Old and Middle Dutch, by A. C. 

 Oudemans, a work which will be of great use 

 to the student of the early national literature, 

 and which, in three volumes, has reached as 

 far as the letter G. 



Although the national literature and its his- 

 tory are thus zealously studied, little has ap- 

 peared that is worth speaking of in the way 

 of poetry or belles-lettres. Poetry is particu- 

 larly neglected. Among novels we may men- 

 tion H. de Veer's "Frans Holster," which ap- 

 peared in ihefeuilleton of the New Rotterdam 

 Journal, and a romance by Van Linschoten. 

 To J. J. Cremer we are indebted for a volume, 

 " Overbetuwsche Novellen," and Joh. Gram 

 has contributed to the Salon a charming novel, 

 called "The Fellow-Traveller." It is, how- 

 ever, in German. 



The Natural Sciences are zealously studied. 

 Although Botany has sustained a severe loss 

 by the death of the celebrated Leyden savant 

 Miquel, just after he had published the first 



