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pendence," by William Burns ; a volume of 

 "The Ecclesiastical History of England," by 

 Dr. John Stoughton ; " Congregational His- 

 tory," by John Waddington, D. D. ; " History 

 of the Indian Administration of Lord Ellen- 

 borough," edited by Lord Colchester ; " French 

 Society from the Fronde to the Great Revolu- 

 tion," by Henry Barton Baker; " Early Eus- 

 sian History," by W. H. S. Ealston; "The 

 Germans in France," by II. Sutherland Ed- 

 wards ; " A Short History of the English 

 People," by J. E. Green" short," but not 

 abridged, nor superficial, nor yet dry; " Social 

 Life in Greece, from Homer to Menander," by 

 the Eev. J. P. Mahaffy ; " History of the In- 

 quisition," by "W. H. Eule ; " History of Japan," 

 by Francis Ottiwell Adams ; " Lectures on the 

 History of Education in Prussia and in Eng- 

 land, and on Kindred Topics," by James Don- 

 aldson, LL. D. ; " History of the Creeds," by 

 J. E. Lumly ; " History of Merchant Shipping 

 and Ancient Commerce," volumes I. and II., 

 by "W. S. Lindsay. " The Greville Memoirs," 

 and a volume of the " Life of the Prince Con- 

 sort," by Theodore Martin, published near the 

 end of the year, are at the present writing 

 known and read in this and (it may be pre- 

 sumed) in every land where English is spoken. 

 A work of permanent value is the " History 

 of the Franco-German War, 1870-Y1, to the 

 Downfall of the Empire, translated from the 

 German Official Account at the Topographical 

 and Statistical Department of the War Office," 

 by Captain F. 0. H. Clarke, E. A. (the au- 

 thorized translation). Of this the first volume 

 has appeared, comprising the narrative of 

 events from the outbreak of hostilities to the 

 battle of Gravelotte. 



To these should be added several biogra- 

 phies that have an historical value and interest. 

 Such are " The Life of Spencer Perceval," by 

 Spencer Walpole; "Memoirs of his Own 

 Time," by Henry Cockburn ; " Eeminiscences 

 of Forty-three Years' Service in India," by 

 Lieutenant-General Sir George Lawrence, ed- 

 ited by W. Edwards ; and " Life and Times of 

 Louisa, Queen of Prussia," by E. H. Hudson. 

 Other biographies that may be mentioned are, 

 the " Memoir,pf the Eev. William Ellis," the 

 eminent missionary, by his Son; "Drum- 

 mond of Hawthornden," by David Masson, a 

 study in the literature of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, worthy of the author's painstaking re- 

 search ; " Mary and Charles Lamb : their 

 Poems, Letters, and Eemains," by W. C. Haz- 

 litt adding little to our knowledge of Charles 

 Lamb, but much that one is glad to get of Mary 

 Lamb ; " The Life and Labors of Albany Fon- 

 blanque," a contribution to the history of re- 

 cent literature ; a " Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld," 

 by A. L. LeBreton, published almost simulta- 

 neously with the appearance in Boston of the 

 "Life," by Mrs. Ellis; "Autobiography and 

 Memoirs of Mrs. Gilbert," formerly Ann Tay- 

 lor, author with Jane Taylor of " Poems for 

 Infant Minds," and other well-known produc- 



tions; the "Life of Thomas Fuller, D. D.," a 

 man who is worth knowing of; "Life and 

 Character of the Eev. John Howe," by Henry 

 Eogers ; and " Henry Beyle (alias de Stend- 

 hal), a Critical and Biographical Study," by A. 

 A. Paton. 



In Philosophy and Science there have ap- 

 peared, " Modern Utilitarianism," by the Eev. 

 Prof. T. E. Birks ; " Principles of Science," by 

 W. T. Jevons; "Sensation and Intuition," by 

 J. Sully ; " Comparative Politics," by E. A. 

 Freeman, the eminent historian ; " The Philos- 

 ophy of Natural Theology," by William Jack- 

 son ; " Philosophy of History in Europe," vol. 

 I., by E. Flint; " A Treatise on the Use of the 

 Tenses in Hebrew," by S. E. Driver ; " Origin 

 and Metamorphoses of Insects," and " British 

 Wild Flowers in Eelation to Insects," by Sir 

 John Lubbock; " Evenings at the Microscope," 

 by P. H. Gosse ; " The Birth of Chemistry," by 

 G. F. Eodwell ; " The Moon, considered as a 

 Planet, as a World, and a Satellite," by James 

 Nasmyth and James Carpenter ; " Elements 

 of Metallurgy," by J. Arthur Phillips ; "Path- 

 ological Anatomy of the Nervous Centres," by 

 E. L. Fox ; " Treatise on Magnetism, General 

 and Terrestrial," by Humphrey Lloyd, D. D., 



D. C. L.; "Polarization of Light," by W. Spot- 

 tiswoode ; " The Methods of Ethics," by Prof. 

 Henry Sidgwick, an important contribution to 

 moral philosophy ; " The Origin of Creation ; 

 or, The Science of Matter and Force," by T. 



E. Eraser, M. D., and Andrew Dewar ; " The 

 Histology and Histo-chemistry of Man," trans- 

 lated from the German of Heinrich Frey, by 

 A. E. J. Barker ; " Economic Geology," by 

 David Page; "The Logic of Style," by Wil- 

 liam Eenton ; " The History of Music (Art and 

 Science) from the Earliest Eecords to the Fall 

 of the Eoman Empire ; " and a work of science 

 made easy and pleasant " Tales on Political 

 Economy," by Mrs. M. E. Fawcett. 



Of Eeligious and Theological Books there 

 was comparatively a large number published, 

 though not as large as usual. The most decided 

 sensation was made by the anonymous work 

 " Supernatural Eeligion." A volume, the use- 

 fulness of which is disproportionate to its very 

 modest dimensions, also anonymous, is entitled 

 "Aids to the Study of German Theology." 

 There have appealed, also, "The Teaching of 

 the Church during the First Three Centuries 

 in the Doctrines of the Christian Priesthood 

 and Sacrifice," by the Eev. C. B. Drake; 

 " Life and Epistles of Paul," by T. Lewin ; 

 " The Pastoral Epistles," by P. Fairbairn, D. 

 D. ; " Introduction to the Pauline Epistles," 

 by Eev. P. J. Gloag; " Lectures on the Deliv- 

 ery and Development of Christian Docrine," 

 by E. Eainy, D. D.; "The Lost and Hostile 

 Gospels," by the Eev. S. Baring-Gould ; " The 

 Mysteries of Christianity," by the Eev. T. J. 

 Crawford ; and " Hopes of the Human Eace, 

 Here and Hereafter," by Frances Power Cobbe. 

 The best books in this department of writing 

 appear almost simultaneously in this country 



