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LITERATURE, ENGLISH, IN 1875. 



claim our attention will doubtless find Ameri- 

 can publishers hereafter. 



HISTOET. In English history a work of 

 first-rate interest is "England under the Duke 

 of Buckingham and Charles I.," by Samuel 

 Rawson Gardiner. "With the volumes preced- 

 ing it in the series, and those which we may 

 hope will follow, a history of England in the 

 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will be 

 produced, to the composition of which rare 

 thoroughness of research and still more rare 

 soundness of judgment have both contributed. 

 Other works in the same general class are : 

 "Memoirs of the Civil Wars in Wales and the 

 Marches, 1642-1649," by John R. Phillips; 

 " The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers re- 

 lated by Themselves," edited by J. J. Morris, 

 S. J. ; the first volume of a valuable " History 

 of Cooperation in England," by G. J. Holy- 

 oake, a writer whose chief repute has been 

 gained by works that have not commended 

 themselves to the public at large ; " History 

 of English Dramatic Literature to the Death 

 of Queen Anne," by Adolphus William Ward ; 

 "Incidents of the China War of 1860," from 

 the private journals of the late General Sir 

 Hope Grant ; and "A-Kim-Foo : the History of 

 a Failure " (the Ashantee War), by Major W. 

 F. Butler, C. B. In ancient, ecclesiastical and 

 general history we note the following works-: 



The Age of Pericles : a History of the Politics 

 and Arts of Greece, from the Persian to the Pelo- 

 ponnesian War. By W. Walkiss Lloyd. 



Social Life in Greece. By the Kev. J. P. Mahaffy. 



Renaissance in Italy: Age of the Despots. By 

 J. Addington Syruonds. 



Church Memorials and Characteristics: being a 

 Church History of the First- Six Centuries. By the 

 late W. Roberts, M. A. 



Gnostic Heresies of the First and Second Centu- 

 ries. By the late Dean Hansel. 

 f The Map of Europe by Treaty, showing the Va- 

 rious Political and Territorial Changes which have 

 taken place since the General Peace of 1814. By 

 Edward Hertslet, C. B. Three volumes. 



A Sketch of the German Constitution and of the 

 Events in Germany from 1815 to 1871. By O. 

 Nicholson. 



BIOGRAPHY. Of works in this department 

 some have an historical and national signifi- 

 cance. Such are the life and correspondence 

 of William Earl of Shelburne, afterward the 

 first Marquis of Lansdowne ; "The Annals and 

 Correspondence of the Viscount and First and 

 Second Earls of Stair," by John Murray Gra- 

 hame; "The Life and Times of the Prince 

 Charles Edward, Count of Albany, commonly 

 called the Young Pretender," by Alexander 

 Charles Ewald ; Dean Hook's " Lives of the 

 Archbishops of Canterbury," the last volume 

 he lived to complete containing the life of 

 Archbishop Laud. Of those that illustrate 

 the history of literature or of art, or are stud- 

 ies of character, may be named : " Isaac Ca- 

 saubon," by Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln 

 College, Oxford ; " Life of Allan Cunningham," 

 by the Rev David Hogg; " Life of Erasmus," 

 by the Rev. A. R. Pennington ; " Life of Sir 



Roderick I. Murchison," by Archibald Geikie, 

 LL. D. ; " Recollections of Colonel de Gon- 

 ville," edited from the French, by Charlotte 

 M. Yonge ; " A Christian Painter of the Nine- 

 teenth Century : being the Life of Hippolyte 

 Flandrin," by the author of " A Dominican 

 Artist;" and "A Fine Old English Gentle- 

 man, exemplified in the Life and Character of 

 Lord Collingwood," by William Davies. 



SCIENCE. Interest in the progress of sci- 

 ence advances with nearly equal pace in this 

 country and in England. Hence, with few 

 exceptions, works of that nature are very 

 promptly republished here, as the contribu- 

 tions of American research are sure of finding 

 their way across the Atlantic. And we should 

 hesitate to regard it as anything more than a 

 question of time not whether, but when, any 

 meritorious work originated abroad is to be 

 brought before the American public. Such 

 are Prof. Sidgwick's "Methods of Ethics;" 

 Sir H. S. Maine's " Lectures on the Early His- 

 tory of Institutions " (which, while we write, 

 is announced for an American edition) ; that 

 remarkable anonymous production, " The Un- 

 seen Universe ; " a translation of Comte's "Sys- 

 tem of Positive Polity ; " a treatise on " The 

 Logic of Style : being an Introduction to Criti- 

 cal Science," by William Renton ; " Sensation 

 and Intuition," by James Sully. The Dic- 

 tionary of the Pali Language," by Prof. R. C. 

 Childus, will be invaluable to the student of 

 comparative philology, and the related science 

 of comparative religion. " Christian Psychol- 

 ogy: the Soul and the Body," by T. M. Gor- 

 man, is a treatment of intellectual philosophy 

 analogous to a once very common way of deal- 

 ing with physical science a method adopted 

 in disregard of the very different principles 

 addressed by science and revealed religion ; 

 a difference which forbids an attempt to con- 

 trol one by the other. 



THEOLOGY AND RELIGION.. As every relig- 

 ious body in Great Britain has its correspond- 

 ing church or denomination in America, the 

 literary fellowship on these subjects is as much 

 closer as religious conviction and emotion are 

 more profound than those produced by any 

 other subject of thought. But, for the same 

 reason, the literary product is more exuberant, 

 and republication does not as nearly keep up 

 with publication. We note the following : 



St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Phile- 

 mon. A Revised Text, with Introductions, Notes, 

 and Dissertations. By J. B. Lightfood, D. D. 



The Bible Educator. By E. H. Plumtre, D. D. 

 4 volumes. 



The Psalms : with Introductions and Critical 

 Notes. By A. C. Jennings and W, H. Lowe. 



The Gradual Psalms : a Treatise on the Fifteen 

 Songs of Degrees, with Commentary, etc. By the 

 Rev. H. T. Armfield, M. A. 



The Doctrine of Retribution. The Bampton Lect- 

 ures for 1875. By the Rev. William Jackson, D. D. 



John the Baptist. The Congregational Lecture 

 for 1874. By H. R. Reynolds, IX D. 



The Atonement. By the Rev. R. W. Dale, M. A. 

 The Congregational Lecture for 1875. 



