pamphlets of the sixteenth century. We might add a long list of works on the same subject, many of them with still quainter titles. Another aspect of the Catholic movement is presented by the numerous most attractive books by which the priests are seeking to win over children and the common people. The following is a specimen : Bonifacius'-Denkmal. Eine Sammlung Katholischer Volksbücher. (Memorial of St. Boniface: a collection of catholic books for the people. Edited by a society of catholic clergymen in Bavaria, and on the Rhine. Dr. Schneemann; Die Versöhnungslehre der evangelisch-protestantischen Kirche. (The Doctrine of the Evangelical Protestant Church concerning the Atonement.) Dr. J. M. Aug. Scholz: Einleitung in die heiligen Schriften des alten und neuen Testaments.' This Introduction to the Old and New Testaments is by Dr. Scholz, whose great edition of the Greek Testament is well known in England. Dr. W. M. L. De Wette: Lehrbuch der histor-kritischen Einleitung in die Bibel. This is the sixth edition of De Wette's Introduction to the Bible, one of the most useful books of its class. Unhappily it is tinctured with neology, but the errors arising from that source bear a most insignificant proportion to the amount of sound learning which the work contains-Δανιὴλ κατὰ ̔Εβδομήκοντα. E codice Chisiano post Segaarium edidit, &c., Dr. H. Aug. Hahn. Fr. Schleiermacher's literarischer Nachlass. zur Theologie. This third volume of Schleiermacher's posthumous theological works contains his Introduction to the New Testament. 2. Philosophy. Fichte's periodical, Zeitschrift für Philosophie und speculative Theologie, for the present year, contains some very interesting articles. London: Williams and Norgate. Prevost: Hégel; exposition de sa doctrine, avec une table analytique des matières. (Hegel, exposition of his system.) Victor Cousin: Des pensées de Pascal. A new edition of Pascal's Thoughts, containing much matter which has been suppressed in former editions. Dr. H. Ritter: Geschichte der Philosophie. Theil 7. This seventh volume of Ritter's great history of philosophy forms the third volume of his history of Christian philosophy, and treats of the scholastic philosophy of the middle ages. Reinhold: Geschichte der Philosophie nach den Hauptmomenten ihrer Entwickelung. (History of Philosophy, according to the epochs of its development.) ́Dr. H. E. W. Sigwart: Geschichte der Philosophie vom allgemeinen wissenschaftlichen und geschichtlichen Standpunct. (History of Philosophy, from a general scientific and historical point of view.) A. F. Ozanam: Dante und die Katholische Philosophie des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts. (Dante, and the Catholic philosophy of the thirteenth century.) 3. History. A new edition of Thiers' History of the Consulate and Empire is now publishing in Paris, illustrated with maps and plans of battles. E. Arnd, Geschichte des Ursprungs und der Entwickelung des Französischen Volks, oder Darstellung der vornehmsten Ideen und Fakten, von denen die Französische Nationalität vorbereitet worden, und unter deren Einflüsse sie sich ausgebildet hat. (History of the Origin and Development of the French Nation, or an account of the principal ideas and facts, by which French nationality has been prepared, and under the influence of which it has formed itself.) 1st vol. Leipzig. Histoire de l'Empire d'Autriche depuis les temps les plus réculés jusqu'au règne de Ferdinand I., par le Chev. Charles de Coeckelberghe de Dutzele. Tom. I. et II. Vienna. An interesting history of the Austrian empire, consisting chiefly of the biographies of its rulers. I. M. Lehuëron: Histoire des Institutions Carlovingiennes, et du gouvernement des Carlovingiens. (History of the Carlovingian Institutions, and of the government of the Carlovingian dynasty.) There is a previous work by the same author on the Merovingian dynasty. Lefebvre Histoire des Cabinets de l'Europe pendant le Consulat et l'Empire. This history of the European cabinets during the reign of Napoleon, is written by a former attaché to the French ministry of foreign affairs, with the aid of documents in the foreign office. His father, an eminent diplomatist under the consulate and empire, was commissioned by the Duke of Richelieu to write a history of French diplomacy from 1789 to 1815, but the work was interrupted by his death. The completion of it by the son is not exclusively diplomatic, and only begins with the revolution of the 18th Brumaire, which made Napoleon First Consul. It deserves especial notice, as one of the first indications that, even in France, juster views of Napoleon's character are beginning to be entertained. The author is not, however, free from the hatred of England, which appears to have assumed in France the character of an endemic disease. Ch. Marchal, La Famille d'Orléans, depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours. (The family of Orleans, from its origin to the present time.) Ant. Flobert: Histoire des Ducs d'Orléans de la maison de Bourbon, 1608 to 1630. (History of the Dukes of Orleans of the house of Bourbon.) Dr. Karl Lanz: Correspondenz des Kaisers Karl V., Aus dem Königlichen Archiv und der Bibliothèque de Bourgogne zu Brüssel. (Correspondence of the Emperor Charles V., from the royal archives and the Bourgogne Library, at Brussels. B. Sarrans, jeune: Histoire de Bernadotte, Charles XIV. Jean, Roi de Suède et de Norvège. A work of much talent and value; but it is to be regretted that the history of the eventful life of Bernadotte should have fallen into the hands of a writer so prejudiced and so ultra-revolutionary as Sarrans. La Révolution Française peinte par elle-même; ou, Extraits des Séances des divers corps législatifs, d'après l'ancien Moniteur. 1re Partie. Assemblée constituante. 2nde Partie. Assemblée Legislative. (The French Revolution painted by itself; or, Extracts from the proceedings of the different legislative bodies, after the old Moniteur. 1st Part. The Constituent Assembly. 2nd Part. The Legislative Assembly. Das Buch vom Jahr, 1812. Oder Napoleon in Russland. Dargestellt von einem Augenzeugen. (The Book of the Year 1812; or, Napoleon in Russia. By an Eye-witness.) F. de Brotonne: Civilisation primitive; ou, Essai de restitution de la période Ante-historique, pour servir d'introduction à l'Histoire Universelle. (Primitive Civilization; or, an attempt at the restoration of the ante-historic period, to serve as an introduction to universal history.) An excellent work, by the keeper of the Library of Saint Geneviève, at Paris, who is already known by his work on Ethnography, l'Histoire de la filiation et des migrations des peuples. 4. Biography. Unsere Zeit. In Biographien und Bildnissen. (Our time, in Biographies and Likenesses.) Hamburg. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th parts; containing lives of Karl Immerman, by Adolf Stahr, and the sculptor, Thorwaldsen, by H. C. Andersen. 5. Geography, Ethnography, Travels, &c. Augustin; Marokko in seinen geographischen, histor., relig., polit., militär. und gesellschaftlichen Zuständen. (Morocco, in its geographical, historical, religious, political, military, and social relations.) With a likeness of the present emperor, Muley Abderrahman. Dr. Jos. Müller; Albanien, Rumelien, und die österreichisch-montenegrische Gränze. (Albania, Rumelia, and the Austrian-Montenegrian boundaries). Dr. A. Hansen: Ost-Europa nach Herodot mit Ergänzungen aus Hippokrates. (Eastern Europe, according to Herodotus, with additions from Hippocrates), forming the first volume of a work on the History of the Migration of Nations. Th. Mugge, Reise durch Scandinavien. (Travels through Scandinavia.) This work, though not adding much to the information to be derived from Laing, Forsell, and Biedermann, is a very interesting and lively account of the views of an intelligent observer. Die Reisen des Venetianers, Marco Polo, im 13" Jahrh. Zum erstenmal vollständig nach den besten Ausgaben, deutsch mit einem Commentar von Aug. Burck. The first complete edition, in German, of the Travels of Marco Polo. Englische Skizzen. Aus den Tagebüchern von Ida Kohl und J. G. Kohl. (English Sketches, from the Journals of Ida Kohl and J. G. Kohl.) 6. Classical Literature. Since our last notice of Didot's Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum, two new and very valuable volumes have been published; namely, Herodotus, with the Fragments of Ctesias, Castor and Eratosthenes, edited by C. Müller, after the text of G. Dindorf; and Pausanias, edited by L. Dindorf. We take this opportunity of repeating the remark we formerly made respecting the vital importance of correct typography in this series. Much interest has been excited by the discovery, in a monastery on Mount Athos, of the Greek Choliambic Fables of Babrius, of which we formerly possessed only a few fragments. The MS. was brought to Paris and published under the auspices of M. Villemain, the late minister of Public Instruction, and under the editorial care of the celebrated scholar, Boissonade. It was reprinted by Orelli, at Zürich; and a third edition has just appeared, together with the fragments of the other choliambic poets, by Lachmann and Meineke. The great Paris reprints of Stephens's Thesaurus, by Hase and the Dindorfs, and of Du Cange's Glossarium Media et Infimæ Latinitatis, by Henschel, are steadily advancing towards completion. A new philological journal has appeared in Paris, under the title of Revue de Philologie, de Litterature, et d'Histoire Anciennes. Another new philological journal is about to be brought out in Germany, by Schneidewin. The articles are to be written in Latin. BIOгPAPOI. Vitarum scriptores graeci minores, edidit A. Westermann. London: Williams and Norgate.-A valuable collection of the minor Greek literary biographies, by a very eminent scholar. Polybius ex recognitione Immanuelis Bekkeri. 2nd vol.-This edition of Polybius well sustains the high reputation which Bekker has gained by his accurate and judicious editions of the simple texts of the Greek classics. Flavii Philostrati quæ supersunt, Philostrati Junioris Imagines, Callistrati Descriptiones, Edidit C. L. Kayser. Pars I. Turici: Meyer et Zeller.The conductors of the Zürich press have added another to the many obliga tions already due to them from scholars, by this reprint of the works of the Philostrati, the last complete edition of which, that of Olearius, besides being 136 years old, has been rendered almost useless by the advance of critical scholarship. The present work is beautifully printed, uniform with the Zürich editions of Plato and the Attic orators. F. G. Schwartz; De Antiquissima Apollinis Natura. Dissert. Inaug. 7. General Literature. Among the chief periodicals of Germany and France, are the following, some of which contain articles of great interest: Deutsche Viertel Jahrs Schrift, (German Quarterly Journal.) Biedermann's Deutsche Monatschrift für Literatur und öffentliches Leben, (German Monthly Journal for Literature and Public Life.) La Revue Independante. Journal des Savants. We have received three new volumes of Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopädie. D. Nisard. Histoire de la Littérature Française. Tom. I. et II. Paris. (History of French Literature.)-This will become a standard work. Fine Arts. The excellent biographical dictionary of ancient and modern artists (Neues allgemeines Künstler Lexicon,) by Dr. Nagler, has advanced to the 14th volume, which concludes with the article Santi, Rafael (the great painter Raphael.) München, Fleischmann. London: Williams and Norgate. Der Tod in allen seinen Beziehungen, ein Warner, Tröster, und Lustigmacher. Als Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte der Todtentänze, von F. Naumann, Dresden. (Death in all his Relations, a Warner, a Consoler, and an Author of Cheerfulness. A contribution to the literary history of the 'Dances of Death,' ascribed to Holbein, and other artists.) Obituary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. The President of the French Academy of Inscriptions for the present year is M. J. M. Pardessus; the Vice-President, M. Jos. Naudet. The Imperial Academy of Sciences, at St. Petersburg, has elected as corresponding members the eminent German scholars, Böckh, of Berlin; Eichstädt, of Jena; and W. Adolf Becker, of Leipzig. Dr. Adolf Schmidt, editor of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, has been appointed an extraordinary professor in the philosophical faculty at Berlin. Died, on the 28th of February, at Stuttgart, the royal medallist, Wagner, many of whose beautiful medallions are well known in England. In the beginning of January, the celebrated Swedish poet, Ingelman, was drowned in the harbour at Stockholm. His body was not discovered till three months afterwards. On the 12th of May, the long-celebrated poet, scholar, and orientalist, Augustus William von Schlegel, died at Bonn. He was born at Hanover, on the 8th of September, 1767. Of his numerous works the following are among the most important: Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur,' (Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature;) Vorlesungen über Theorie und Geschichte der bildenden Künste,' (Lectures on the Theory and History of the Fine Arts;) Kritische Schriften,' (Critical Works,) Indische Bibliothek,' (Indian Library;) his edition of the great Sanscrit epic poem, the Ramayana; Réflections sur l'étude des langues Asiatiques,' (Reflections on the study of the languages of Asia;) not to mention his Poems,' his translations of Shakspere and Calderon, and other works which are universally known. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. NOVEMBER 1, 1845. ART. I. (1.) Critical and Miscellaneous Essays; Collected and Republished. By THOMAS CARLYLE. 5 vols. 12mo. Second Edition. Chapman and Hall. (2.) German Protestantism and the Right of Private Judgment in the Interpretation of Holy Scripture: a brief History of German Theology, from the Reformation to the present time. In a Series of Letters to a Layman. By EDWARD DEWAR, M.A., late of Exeter College, Oxford, Chaplain to the British Residents at Hamburgh. 12mo. pp. 231. Parker, Oxford. 1845. M. COUSIN, of French university celebrity, has published a work, intitled "Cours de Philosophie et de l'Histoire." In this work the author has said much concerning the nature of ideas. The great end of philosophy he states, is the full development of thought, and in developed thought men possess ideasrectified ideas. With regard to the acquisitions comprehended under this small word, and so.hard to obtain, the great teacher of the youth of France delivers himself as follows: Ideas, 'gentlemen, are alone the proper object of philosophy-of the ' world of philosophy. But you are not to suppose that ideas represent anything beside themselves, or that it is by reason ' of their likeness to that which they are supposed to represent that we confide in them: ideas represent nothing-absolutely nothing but themselves. There is nothing intelligible but ideas. They are a manner of being proper to the eternal reason.' Some of our readers will marvel at this language; and truly it would be marvellous if they did not. If these expressions have any meaning, the meaning must be-that ideas, the pure abstractions which that word denotes, comprehend all we can |