forty thousand, it may have been double that number; and so effectually did they carry on their work of destruction, that Ranke asserts it "entirely disappeared, and is no longer to be found;" and Macaulay remarks that "the Inquisitors detected in it the Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith alone; they proscribed it; and it is now as hopelessly lost as the second decade of Livy." Happily this is not the case; the original work and early English and French translations of it are here preserved, and edited with a scrupulous fidelity as creditable to Mr. Babington as the scholarship by which he has illustrated the history of this remarkable book. One of the most interesting and readable books of the present season is Dr. Doran's Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover. The history of the four royal ladies-Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I.; Caroline of George II., Charlotte of George III., and Caroline of George IV.-presents a picture of the Court of England for a period of more than a hundred years. Dr. Doran has dissected the manners of the times with freedom, and filled his volumes with anecdotes of court and aristocracy, which tell extremely well. Whatever may have altered amongst us for the worse, it is plain that our court has infinitely improved. The tales of vice which appear in Dr. Doran's pages in connexion with the courts of the first, second, and fourth Georges are sickening. Great is the relief which the reader receives from the renovation of manners effected by Queen Charlotte. Still greater would have been the contrast, and the book would have terminated more agreeably, if it had come within the author's plan to follow the painful life of the last Caroline with that of the amiable and benevolent Adelaide. 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