on immediate compliance. One expression particularly calls for comment, as avowing in precise terms what the French ministers really want, and what they ask plainly where they think they may venture to do so. They ask the removal of the refugees "notoriously known to be disposed to take part in criminal enterprises," i. e. the arbitrary treatment and punishment of their enemies, simply on the ground of notorious disposition to do wrong. If the English nation had not so promptly interfered to supplement the defective action of their government, there is no saying how soon a document equally explicit might have been addressed to ourselves. In conclusion, we cannot forget that the ruler on whose behalf these demands are made by his injudicious friends, was long sheltered both by England and by Switzerland when himself a "notorious" enemy to the existing government of France, and a conspirator against it, and an actual assailer of it from both shores; and that he once was an active member of an Italian secret society, and a comrade of many of those very refugees whom he thus relentlessly denounces and pursues. Surely it would have been wiser in his ministers to suffer these memories to sleep. The concluding correspondence between the two Governments is also before us; and we have no hesitation in saying that Count Walweski's last explanatory and apologetic despatch ought to be accepted as satisfactory. He assures us that he never could have thought of intimating that English laws knowingly" favoured guilty and murderous designs. The most satisfactory part of the document, however, is the extract from a private letter of the Emperor to Count Persigny, showing that he was fully aware of the difficulty which English principles and customs would place in the way of such impediments to plotting as alone could be really efficacious; but that for the sake of allaying the irritation of parties in France, who were more ignorant than himself of the spirit of our police and jurisprudence, it was hoped we should do something: "Je ne me fais aucune illusion (he writes) sur le peu d'efficacité des mesures qu'on pourra prendre, mais ce sera toujours un bon procédé qui calmera ici bien des irritations. Expliquez bien aux ministres de la Reine notre position: il ne s'agit pas aujourd'hui de sauver ma vie, il s'agit de sauver l'alliance." BOOKS OF THE QUARTER SUITABLE FOR READING SOCIETIES. Sermons by Archdeacon Hare. A new edition. Macmillan. [We cannot but regret the form of this book. The rhythmical form seems to us to be inappropriate, and often most discordant. But the substance of the book is full of deep truth and fine discrimination. We differ widely from Mr. Newman on points of Christian theology; but on the theistic basis of faith there are few Christians who have not much to learn from him.] Life and its Varieties. By L. H. Grindon. 1 vol. Whittaker. [A genial book written from a Swedenborgian point of view; vague and mystic; but animated by a deep love of truth and beauty.] The Creeds of the Church. By C. A. Swainson, M.A. Macmillan. [A thoughtful series of discourses. The author is clearly anxious to grasp and solve the real intellectual difficulties of the present day, and shows that he has opened his mind to study and understand them. Still his interpretations of sceptical schools of thought are sometimes narrow and onesided.] Spirit-Drawings. By W. M. Wilkinson. Chapman and Hall. [Dr. Wilkinson's writings have always ability to recommend them. This little book is a very curious account of real phenomena within his own personal experience, phenomena which he regards as normal, but which most people would think morbid.] Personal Recollections of the Last Four Popes. By his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. Hurst and Blackett. Rational Philosophy in History and in System. By Alexander C. Fraser. Hamilton and Adams. [A clear and on the whole a sound essay on the apparently unprogressive character of metaphysical philosophy.] Lectures on the Philosophy of History. By G. W. F. Hegel. Translated by J. Sibree, M.A. Henry G. Bohn. [This is a book that needed translation, being Hegel's most popular and interesting work. Mr. Sibree is well qualified by study and attainment to attempt the difficult task of translating Hegel's lectures. We have not compared his translation with the original.] History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. By James Anthony Froude, M.A. Vols. 3 and 4. J. W. Parker and Son. 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A series of Essays contributed principally to the National Review. By Walter Bagehot. 1 vol. Chapman and Hall. Views and Opinions of General Jacob. By Captain Pelly. Second Edition. Smith and Elder. Commerce of India. By B. A. Irving, M. A. 1 vol. Smith and Elder. [A timely and valuable book; but written by a student rather than a practical man.] The Defence of Lucknow a Diary. By a Staff Officer. Smith and Elder. [A most interesting diary, written with military brevity, exactness, and impartiality.] Suggestions towards the Future Government of India. By Harriet Martineau. Smith, Elder, and Co. [Full of clever remark, but extravagantly overrating the objections to an immediate change in the form of the Home-government of India.] Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. By E. J. Trelawney. Moxon. [After the artificial biographising of Moore, and the vague and vapid gossip of Medwin, this fresh and graphic little book will be welcomed with almost unqualified pleasure. The author would have done the public an injury had he omitted the stirring romance of his own life with which it concludes.] Fifty Years' Recollections, Literary and Personal. By Cyrus Redding. 3 vols. Charles J. Skeet. [A book full of pleasant anecdote and gossip of the characteristics of great men.] Memoirs of Beranger. Blackett. Written by Himself. 1 vol. Hurst and Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855. By Captain Henry Yule. Smith, Elder, and Co. [A volume not merely magnificently illustrated and got up, but containing a most interesting account of a country little known.] A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude in 1850-51. By MajorGeneral Sir William H. Sleeman, K.C.B. 2 vols. Bentley. [A book of the highest interest, coming from one who had at once every faculty and opportunity for studying the state of Oude.] Mitla New Travels in Mexico and Salvador. By G. F. Von Tempsky. Longman, Brown, and Co. 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The political pieces are very spirited.] Merope a Tragedy. By Matthew Arnold. Longman. [Reviewed in Article I.] Essays on the Drama. By W. B. Donne. J. W. Parker and Son. [Essays full of special knowledge and allusive learning.] German Love. From the Papers of an Alien; translated, with the sanction of the Author, by Susannah Winkworth. Chapman and Hall. The Interpreter: a Tale of the War. By J. G. Whyte Melville. J. W. Parker. [A clever, fast tale.] Adele. By Julia Kavanagh. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Year after Year: a Tale. By the Author of " Paul Ferroll." Saunders and Otley. [Extremely inferior in every way to "Paul Ferroll," but now known to be a much earlier attempt.] The Three Chances. By the Authoress of "The Fair Carew." 3 vols. Smith, Elder, and Co. [A painful tale, not in good taste, and not effective. The author's power of conception is beyond her power of delineation.] Tales. By Professor Wilson. Edited by his Son-in-Law, Professor Vol. XI. William Blackwood. Ferrier. |