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King Henry VIII.-The Beginning of the History of Great Britain.—
And "In Felicem Memoriam Elizabethæ, Angliæ Regina; with an
English translation.

As there is no public character of his age about whom more diverse opinions have been entertained and expressed than about the distinguished author of these works, it will naturally be a question with all, How are the life and services and literary works of Lord Bacon estimated by the editors of this new edition? For the present, it is enough to quote an extract from the "general preface," which gives no doubtful indication of their views:

"He did good service when he declared with all the weight of his authority and of his eloquence that the true end of knowledge is the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. The spirit of this declaration runs throughout his writings, and we trust has worked for good upon the generations by which they have been studied. And as he showed his wisdom in coupling together things divine and human, so has he shown it also in tracing the demarcation between them, and in rebuking those who by confounding religion and philosophy were in danger of making the one heretical and the other superstitious."

In this volume there is a steel engraving of "Francis Bacon when a boy," from a colored bust in terra-cotta, belonging to the Earl of Verulam, which has probably been at Gorhambury since 1572.

For the information of those of our readers who live in New Haven and its vicinity, we state that THOMAS H. PEASE, Bookseller, has been appointed by Messrs. Brown & Taggard special agent for obtaining subscribers. Price, per volume: In cloth, $1.50. In sheep, $2. In sheep, $2. In halfcalf, gilt, $2.50. In half-calf, antique, $2.50.

CARLYLE'S CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.*-A new edition of the Critical and Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas Carlyle has been for a long time a desideratum. We are no wholesale admirers either of the style or the sentiments of this "Jeremiah of modern times;" still we welcome this superb edition of some of the best of his writings, with real pleasure. The collection has been arranged and edited by himself. Conspicuous among the contents are those famous contributions to the Edinburgh and other leading English Reviews, which served so well to introduce the great literary characters of Germany to the

* Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. Collected and republished. By THOMAS CARLYLE. In four volumes. pp. 491, 490, 480, 524. Boston: Brown & Taggard, 25 and 27 Cornhill. 1860. [For sale in New Haven by T. H. PEASE. Price $5.]

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acquaintance of the English reading public. These make up a large part of the four volumes. But there are also the well known essays and reviews on Burns, Voltaire, Diderot, Mirabeau, Boswell's Life of Johnson; and a great number of other shorter productions, such, for example, as Thoughts on the Death of his old school-fellow, Edward Irving, which we are glad to see preserved in so convenient a place for reference. Carlyle's writings have been read, probably, by greater numbers on this side of the Atlantic than on the other. No library, public or private, can well dispense with this convenient and elegant edition of what are everywhere acknowledged to be some of the most important contributions to the literature of the age. In the first volume there is a most life-like steel engraving from an original likeness in the possession of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Esq.

-Our readers will be grati

DEAN MILMAN'S LATIN CHRISTIANITY. fied to know that Messrs. Sheldon & Company, of New York, have undertaken the republication of Dean Milman's History of Latin Christianity, than which, no more important contribution has ever been made to the history of medieval Europe. The work will be published in eight volumes, of which, the first has already appeared. It is a crown octavo of 544 pages, printed by Messrs. H. O. Houghton & Co., at the "Riverside Press," Cambridge, and is not surpassed by anything that has come from the American press. This first volume has reached us just as the last pages of this Number are passing under our eye; and at present we shall do no more than give some few extracts from the opinions which have been expressed in the English Reviews:

"No such work," says the Quarterly Review, (Vol. xcv, p. 39,) “has appeared in English ecclesiastical literature-none which combines such breadth of view with such depth of research-such high literary and artistic eminence with such patient and elaborate investigation-such appreciation of the various forms of greatness and goodness with such force of conception and execution-none which exhibits so large an amount of that fearlessness of results which is the necessary condition of impartial judgment and trustworthy statement."

"Dr. Milman," says the North British Review, (Vol. xxii, p. 111,) "has many of the qualities of a great historian, and stands in the foremost rank among modern writers of Church history. In the fundamental point of all, truth of statement, founded on careful research and honest judgment, he has entirely

* History of Latin Christianity; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V. By HENRY HART MILMAN, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's. In Eight Volumes. Volume I. New York: Sheldon & Company. 1860. 12mo. 74

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satisfied us. In the process of investigation, he is always anxious and patient, and in forming his judgments candid and impartial. . . . . His study of the times which he describes is complete: no original source seems to have escaped the very wide range of his reading: and the opinions of modern writers, especially those of Germany, have been duly weighed, and where necessary noticed. And to this careful research and honest judgment he adds that poetic liveliness of imagination which makes each inan and each period live as they pass before us."

"No writer of our time," says the Edinburgh Review, (Jan. 1858, p. 55,) could delineate the several phases of Christian history with greater brillianey and animation, or with sounder judgment and more solid learning. The period of the Middle Ages has twice before been surveyed by English historians of no common eminence, but we are guilty of no disparagement to them in asserting that Dr. Milman has completed their work. That element of ecclesiastical power and influence, which was an object of scorn and aversion to Gibbon, and of comparative indifference to Hallam, has now, for the first time, by any English Protestant writer, been restored to its true position as the vital center of mediæval society, civilization, history, and art. The subject of this history is professedly confined to that of Latin Christianity; but as the religious history of man involves in fact his whole history, so that of Latin Christianity is virtually the history of Christianity throughout the world. The essential distinction, however, between the religious developments of the East and West, Dean Milman has seized with happy originality and drawn out with the greatest force and clearness; nor have the fundamental differences of idea, which lay at the root of this diversity, been traced to their source with equal discernment by any preceding writer, or set forth in such masterly relief."

The publishers inform us that their edition is to be a reprint of the last London edition, and is to surpass it in convenience of form, and beauty of typography. They offer it at about one-half the English price.

F. T. JARMAN, Bookseller, is the Agent for New Haven and vicinity. Price per volume: In cloth, $1.50; in sheep, $2; in half-calf, gilt, $2.50; in half-calf, antique, $2.50. One volume, or the entire set, will be sent by mail at these prices. For eleven dollars, in advance, the entire set of eight volumes will be sent by mail, as the volumes are issued, postage prepaid.

IRVING'S WORKS.-It is intended by the publisher, Mr. George P. Putnam, that the new "national edition," as it is called, of the works of Washington Irving, shall surpass all the many former editions which have at various times appeared. It will undoubtedly be everywhere recognized hereafter as the standard edition. We have received Knickerbocker's History of New York; The Sketch-Book; Bracebridge Hall; and The Traveler. In beauty of typography, and in all that

contributes to elegance of appearance, these volumes are certainly unrivaled. They are printed upon tinted paper, and are illustrated with many excellent engravings.

IRVING'S LIFE OF WASHINGTON.-Mr. George P. Putnam has commenced also the publication of a new edition of Irving's Life of Washington, in five volumes, crown octavo. They are to be in every way uniform with the "national edition," which we have just spoken of. The first two volumes have already appeared. They are illustrated with numerous engravings.

IRVING'S LIFE OF COLUMBUS.-The first volume of this work has come to us just as these last pages are passing through the press. The public are indebted to Mr. Putnam for furnishing, in this volume, several engravings and illustrations, which add much to the value of this new edition. They will be examined with great curiosity, especially by those who are interested in the history of the art of engraving. There is a fine portrait of Columbus, engraved on steel, from a picture in the Bibliotheque du Roi, in Paris. There is another portrait of him, en. graved on wood, very unlike the first, but probably more reliable as a likeness, which purports to be a fac-simile of a wood-cut in "De Bry's Voyages." The author states that it was copied by his son from a portrait of Columbus which had been taken by order of the King and Queen of Castile, before the great navigator left Spain on his first western expedition. There are, besides, copies of two other curious wood-cuts, found in "De Bry's Voyages." But what will be examined with most interest, is a collection of five strange-looking and grotesque wood-cuts, which are said to be fac-similes of the illustrations which were given in the first authentic document which made known through Europe the discoveries of Columbus. The document referred to is a volume of but nine pages, and is now a great bibliographical curiosity. A copy of it is in the public library of Milan.

SALMAGUNDI.*-Uniform with the "National Edition" of the works of

* Salmagundi; or the Whimwhams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. By WILLIAM IRVING, JAMES KIRKE PAULDING, and WASHINGTON IRVING. Printed from the original edition, with a preface and notes, by EVERT A. DUYCKINK. New York: George P. Putnam, 115 Nassau street. 1860. One volume. Crown octavo. Tinted paper. pp. 412. Price $1.50. [T. H. Pease, New Haven.]

Washington Irving, Mr. George P. Putnam has republished the famous. Salmagundi Papers, which fifty odd years ago produced "every now and then, and semi-occasionally," a world of sensation at all the "tea tables" of New York. Mr. Putnam has done a very good thing in giving the public this hansome reprint. There are many reasons why Salmagundi must ever have a hold upon the American public, and an important place in our national literature. In point of time it was one of the earliest attempts at this peculiar species of writing in the country. Its humorous and genial sketches and satires on men and things, so much in the style of the "Spectator," give us a better insight into New York society, as it was at the beginning of the century, than anything else we have. And if this were not enough, the names alone of the authors, WILLIAM IRVING, JAMES K. PAULDING, and WASHINGTON IRVING, though they were always rather inclined to look upon the Papers as the "trivial sport of their boyish days," would be sufficient to keep the book ever fresh in remembrance.

For those who know what Salmagundi is, the announcement of this handsome reprint will be enough to revive many pleasant recollections of years long gone bye. For those who do not, and for the generation now coming upon the stage, we will quote the motto which we remember as always figuring on the covers of the old numbers.

"In hoc est hoax, cum quiz et jokesez,
Et smokem, toastem, roastem folksez,
Fee, Fau, Fum.

Psalmanazar.

With baked and boiled, and stewed and toasted;
And fried and boiled, and smoked and roasted,
We treat the town."

BOOKS RECEIVED, SOME OF WHICH WILL BE NOTICED IN THE NEXT

NUMBER.

A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges. By JAMES HADLEY, Professor in Yale College. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 366.

The Benefits of Christ's Death. Originally written in Italian. By AONIO PALEARIO. Now reprinted from an ancient English translation. With an Introduction by Rev. JOHN AYER, M. A. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1860. 16mo. pp. 160.

Recent Inquiries in Theology. By eminent English Churchmen.

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