THE

NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

EDITED BY

EDWARD I SEARS, LL.D

Pulchrum est bene facare reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est.

VoL XXIV. DECEMBER, 1871, AND MARCH, 1872.

NEW YORK :

EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

658 BROADWAY.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by EDWARD I. SEARS, in the office of

the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

CONTENTS OF NO. XLVII.

ART.

PAGE.

I. BOHEMIA: ITS POLITICAL VICISSITUDES AND ITS LITER-

ATURE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1. Geschichte der Böhmischen Sprache und alten Literatur.

(History of the Bohemian Language and Literature.)

Von Jos. DOBROWSKY.

2. Geschichte der Slavischen Sprache und Literatur nach

alten Mundarten. (History of the Slavic Literature,

etc.) Von PAUL JOSEPH SCHAFFARIK.

3. Historie Lileratury Ceské áneb sastauwny prehled spisu

Ceskyck, s Krátkau Historij Narodu, Oswicenj a Ga-

zyka. Pracj JOSEFA JUNGMANNA, Dóktora Filosofie

a Professora Humanitujho. W. Praze. (History of

Bohemian Literature.)

II. RECOLLECTIONS OF DANIEL WEBSTER, . . . . . . . 24

1. The Works of DANIEL WEBSTER, edited by EDWARD Ev-

ERETT. 6 vols.

2. Speeches and Forensic Arguments by DANIEL WEBSTER,

3 vols.

3. The Private Correspondence of DANIEL WEBSTER, edited

by FLETCHER WEBSTER. 2 vols.

4. Life of DANIEL WEBSTER, by GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS,

one of his Literary Executors. 2 vols.

5. The Private Life of DANIEL WEBSTER, by CHARLES

LANMAN.

III. BRITTANY: ITS ANTIQUITIES AND ITS LEGENDS, . . . . 46

1. La Bretagne, ancienne et moderne. Par PITRE-CHEVA-

LIER.

2. Histoire de France, par M. MICHELET.