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den is worth reading. The subject is "The 

 Position of the Religions Ideas of Primitive 

 Peoples in the Universal History of Religion." 



The " Camera Obscura " of N. Beets remains 

 the great hit among modern Dutch novels. 

 Of those of this year I may mention " Forty 

 Thousand Pounds," by A. R. Donker ; " Dutch 

 Ladies and Gentlemen," by Dr. J. T. Ten Brink, 

 a collection of five tales; "Gederailleerd," by 

 Ger. Keller, a story announced long ago, and 

 at length published; and an anonymous novel, 

 if novel it can be called, dealing with the Dutch 

 Old Catholics in the time of Peter Codde, and 

 called ''Rome against Utrecht." The favorite 

 novelist J. J. Cremer, has brought out another 

 novel, " Hanna de Freule." Among poems I 

 may mention, besides new editions of lie Ge- 

 nestet, and N. Beets, a production of Schaep- 

 man, called "Napoleon;" and "Londinias," 

 a highly-successful mock heroic in hexameters, 

 by C. Vosmaer. 



Not less industriously investigated is the 

 history of Art. Besides monographs by A. 

 Verhuell on Cornelius Troost, and by C. G. 

 Schneevoght upon engravings after Rubens, I 

 may name the beautiful work of C. Vosmaer 

 on Frans Hals, which is adorned with etchings 

 by Prof. Will. Unger, of Vienna. An histori- 

 cal sketch of Painting in the Netherlands from 

 the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, by 

 Dr. J. van Vloten, although trustworthy, is 

 intended mainly for popular reading. 



The history of their native country has ever 

 been an object of interest to the Dutch, and 

 this year no less than three new general his- 

 tories of Holland, by J. A. Wynne, P. II. Wit- 

 kamp, and J. de Bosch Kemper, respectively, 

 have appeared. As yet only the history of 

 the period since 1830 is treated of in the work 

 of the last-named author. To that time be- 

 long the interesting letters of the late minis- 

 ter. J. R. Thorbeoke, to the head of the ortho- 

 dox party in Holland, M. Groen van Prins- 

 terer. Exceedingly valuable for Dutch history 

 is the edition of the mediaeval " Ketiren " of 

 Leyden, by H. G. Hamaker. Christian Sepp's 

 " Historical Inquiries," the second volume of 

 which has made its appearance, is mainly de- 

 voted to the Reformation in Germany and Hol- 

 land, but treats of it chiefly from a literary 

 and bibliographical point of view. De Witto 

 van Citters has made an important contribu- 

 tion to the history of the eighteenth century, 

 especially as regards the government of the 

 towns at that time. Dr. P. L. Mfiller writes 

 in German ; still there is a great deal that is 

 most valuable in its bearing on the history of 

 the Low Countries during the seventeenth 

 century, in his book on " William the Third 

 of Orange, and George Frederick of Waldeck," 

 which contains a number of letters of those 

 remarkable men, and other documents which 

 are now printed for the first time. 



The East Indian Archipelago attracts every 

 day more attention in the mother-country. 

 Besides a handsome volume with numerous 

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illustrations, and with letter-press by William 

 Ritter, I may mention a geographical, ethno- 

 graphical, and historical description, which is 

 appearing in parts, of the island of Java and 

 its inhabitants, by Prof. P. J. Veth, President 

 of the Geographical Society that was estab- 

 lished lately ; and especially a splendid work 

 by Dr. C. Leemans, on the Remains and An- 

 tiquities of B6ro-Boedoer. The Government 

 pays the cost of this book, which contains 393 

 lithographs, and is highly important for the 

 history of Javanese Art, as well as its archaa- 

 ology. 



HUNGARY. In the list of original scientific 

 productions, there are only a few works which 

 fully deserve our attention. Among these is 

 Dr. W. Frankel's " A hazai es kulfoldi iskola- 

 zas a XVI. Szazadban " ("The Hungarian 

 and Foreign Schools in the Sixteenth Cen- 

 tury"), a really careful compilation from data 

 found in the archives of Hungary and of the 

 neighboring countries. Dr. Frankel, in his 

 present book, has given us a laudable proof 

 of his religious tolerance, for, as he is a Cath- 

 olic priest, one would have scarcely expected 

 to find him bestowing such great care upon 

 the Protestant schools of Hungary, where out 

 of 156 Latin schools, 128 in the latter part of 

 the sixteenth century belonged to the Protest- 

 ants, nine to the Unitarians, and the rest to the 

 Catholics. The second book I have to speak 

 of is Mr. Paul Hunfalvi's study of the Eonda 

 Vogul language, consisting this time of the 

 edition of " The Vognl Translation of the Gos- 

 pel of St. Mark," accompanied by a grammat- 

 ical sketch and a vocabulary. Researches in 

 this southern branch of the Vognl language, 

 which is fast disappearing, are highly interest- 

 ing to the students of comparative philology, 

 for besides augmenting the links of affinity 

 between the Magyar and other Ugrian lan- 

 guages, they will greatly contribute to lift the 

 veil of ethnographical uncertainty which 

 hovers over the question of the mutual relation 

 between the Ugrian and Turco-Tartar lan- 

 guages. Further, there is Dr. Goldziher's 

 " A Nemzetisegi Kerdes az Araboknal " (" The 

 Question of Nationality with the Arabs "), in 

 which our young but gifted Orientalist treats 

 of the famous anti-Arab national movement of 

 the Mohammedans, known under the name of 

 Shn'ubiyya. The specialty of Dr. Goldziher, 

 who is now absent from Hungary upon a sci- 

 entific tour in Syria, is the *udy of the Arab 

 grammarians ; and the edition of " Ibn Sid- 

 dik," which he is now preparing, will form a 

 precious contribution td our knowledge of the 

 Arab language. As last, but not least, I may 

 mention M. Stephen Toldy's "A Jezsuitak 

 Magyarorszagon es egyebutt" ("The Jesuits 

 in Hungary and Abroad "), which has come 

 out while I am writing theso lines, and 

 which, to judge from a single perusal, is full of 

 valuable information relating to the doings of 

 this order in Hungary. If I add to the above 

 sundry learned dissertations upon historical 



