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THE LONDON PUBLISHING SEASON-1867-'8. LONDON, December. DIFFERING in some respects from the American more. In the present month their announcements Of ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE, perhaps less need No. 3. to appear Beauty," etc., comprised the whole variety; now hardly an illustrated book can be seen, wherein the true use and mission of the fine arts are not understood, and their finest examples are brought before our eyes. In the wide domain of HISTORY, unquestionably the leading work of the season-looked forward to with the highest expectations-is the concluding portion of Mr. Motley's History of the Netherlands, just issued in two volumes, and already, no doubt, familiar to American readers. How little the English public can be regarded as book-buyers, is shown by the fact that 1,300 copies only was the number secured by the trade at Mr. Murray's annual sale in the beginning of November, when, previously to their publication, books are offered at á slight reduction, in order to induce larger orders in advance. In classical history, the completion of Dr. Rawlinson's Five Great Monarchies of Antiquity will be effected by the History of Ancient Persia, the fourth volume of the entire work. The earlier volumes are already out of print and scarce. The History of the Kings of Rome, by Dr. Dyer, a laborious scholar, already known by his History of the City of Rome, The Ruins of Pompeii, etc., will command attention as a work on the conservative side of the subject, from a competent authority, in opposition to the wholesale skepticism of Sir George Cornewall Lewis and others. A handsome library edition of Prof. Mommsen's History of Rome to the Fall of the Republic, in four large octavos, will shortly appear, prompted by the success met with by Prof. Dickson's admirable translation of the work in a less assuming form. As might be expected from the accession of new materials afforded by the increasing accessibility of public records to the critical inquirer, English history is a study that engages much attention. Mr. Froude, indeed, the first living scholar in this department of study, makes no sign of his progress, but is understood to be actively at work, grappling with immense masses of authorities, English and foreign, for the History of the Great Spanish Armada period. Professor Pearson's History of England during the Early and Middle Ages, in two volumes, large octavo, is the enlargement of a previous sketch which met with much favor. The author is a professor in King's College, London, and a writer of the Goldwin Smith school, judging events and men with equal vigor and truth. A history of the early period of the English annals is also promised by Sir Edward Creasy, author of The Decisive Battles of the World, now Chief Justice of Ceylon. Perhaps the announcement that will hope is engaged on The Reign of Queen Anne until the Peace of Utrecht, designed as a connecting link between Lord Macaulay's unfinished work and his own history, issued in the name of Lord Mahon before he had succeeded to the family title. Volumes three and four of Mr. Kinglake's History of the Crimean War are promised for January next, and with Mr. Andrew Bisset's History of the Commonwealth of England from the Death of Charles I. to the Dissolution of the Long Parliament by Cromwell (which, with some presumption, he calls "an omitted chapter in the history of England"), forms the most important elucidation of the national history that we are told to expect. France claims the next largest portion of literary activity. We are promised, in general history, the completion of Mr. Eyre Evans Crowe's History of France from Clovis and Charlemagne to the Accession of Napoleon III., a work some time in progress, that has scarcely attracted the attention it deserves, and is now completed by the issue of the fifth volume; an authorized translation of Professor Emile de Bonnechoses' History of France, a clear and lucid sketch of the French annals, in two volumes, octavo. Of particular periods, there will be Dr. Henry White's History of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the Religious Wars of the Reign of Charles IX., embracing much new matter from the French archives; Mr. Smiles' Huguenots in England—their Settlements, Churches, and Industries, etc., in which the accomplished biographer of the Civil Engineers makes his debut in a non-scientific subject; and a translation of the famous History of the French Revolution of Professor Von Sybel, of Bonn, by Walter C. Perry. In Oriental History, the completion of Mr. Marshman's History of India may be looked for, and the continuation of Mr. Talboy Wheeler's exhaustive work on that country during the Hindoo period, derived from the Vedic authorities, and the great Indian Epic Poems. Several important books on Eastern races belong, perhaps, rather to Ethnology than History, and the works of Baron von Alvensleben, Count Kezatry, and Countess von Kellenitz, on recent events in Mexico, perhaps, hardly rise to the dignity of that title. In the kindred study of BIOGRAPHY, the list of works promised is long and ample. We can but notice some of the more prominent among them: Recollections of Lord Byron, by the Marquise de Boissy (Countess Guiccioli), will probably most effectually arouse public curiosity. For another circle, Memoirs of Sir William Hamilton, with selections from his correspondence, by Professor Bunsen from Family Papers, of the self-taught philosopher, James Ferguson, of the eloquent Dominican Father Lacordaire, may be mentioned, though they by no means exhaust the list of forthcoming works. Of a middle class between History and Biography, and combining the best characteristics of each, Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer's Historical Characters, is on the eve of a second In SCIENCE the list is scarcely so long, though several first-rate books may be included in it. Foremost among them is the long-expected work of Mr. Charles Darwin in defence and elucidation of his warmly contested theory. It is entitled The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, or the Principles of Inheritance, Reversion, Crossing, Interbreeding, and Selection. It forms two volumes, copiously illustrated. The sale of 1,200 copies previous to publication shows the widely spread interest taken in the subject outside of the special World of Science. Dr. Lionel Beale's well-known manual How to Work the Microscope, in a much enlarged edition (the 4th), has assumed new proportions, and become more than ever indispensable to every investigator of nature's secrets. Mrs. Somerville's work on Molecular and Microscopic Science, largely illustrated, will command the attention due to the authoress of The Mechanism of the Heavens, and attests the enduring vivacity of intellect in a lady now not far distant from her eightieth year. The second volume of Sir Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, completing the tenth edition of the work, may shortly be expected, and also a new and enlarged impression of Sir Roderick Murchison's Siluria, a History of the Oldest Rocks and General Succession of Geological Formations and Changes of the Earth's Surface. tions. Among the most remarkable books of this class is Edmund Burke, a Historical Study, by John Morley, which has just appeared. The whole press are unanimous in their testimony to the grasp of thought, wide range of view, and vigorous style of this unpretending volume. The author is known to the literary world as editor of the Fortnightly Review. He is about commencing a political career in England, and, as a prepara-edition, though only out a few days. tion for the course, is now engaged in a visit of some extent to the United States, for the sake of studying effectively the phenomena that lie at the root of a solution of the great questions of the day in either hemisphere. Mr. Arthur Helps steals some time from his official duties as Clerk of the Privy Council, and the more delicate employment of supervising the details of Royal authorship, to offer to the public a Life of Pizarro, and a Memoir of Las Casas, comprising his conversion, voyage to Spain, his scheme of colonization, adventures on the Pearl Coast, etc., each in one volume; of outward appearance befitting the style and polish of the author. A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, by his lifelong friend, the Rt. Hon. J. T. Coleridge, now retired from the Judicial Bench, will count its readers by thousands on both sides of the Atlantic. The Life of Sir Charles Barry, the architect, by his son, Dr. Barry, by its subject and choice architectural illustrations perhaps rather belongs to the fine art department. The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir Philip Francis, the joint work of the deceased Joseph Parker and Prof. Herman Merivale, offer a rare treat for all who feel an interest in the con. | stitutional questions of the last century, the era of American independence, when Wilkes and Warren Hastings were the heroes of the day, when Junius wrote and Burke and Sheridan spoke. It offers a complete revelation of the character of a man who to most readers has been Medical and Physiological Science are, however, hitherto nothing but a name, though distinguished by far the most productive in a literary point of among his fellows for industry (almost super-view; and in these departments-a bare list of the human), energy, and ambition, that raised him to a distinguished position, and but for one fatal blight would have carried him still higher. The opinion of his biographers on the "Junius question" is decided, and they bring so much collateral evidence to bear upon it that the matter hardly now admits of dispute. The Life of David Garrick from Family Papers and Unpublished Sources is | promised by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, whose Life of Sterne exhibits more industry than good taste. Dr. Hook's Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury | has reached the period of the Reformation, and Another opportunity must be taken to continue he will commence volume six of his work with the enumeration of the books likely to "make MISCELLANEOUS, forthcoming books is far beyond our limits-we must pass them over with a brief mention of Prof. Owen's Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals, the third and concluding volume; Sir William Ferguson's Lectures on the Progress of Anatomy and Surgery during the present Century; volume 2d of Dr. Russell Reynolds' System of Medicine; Dr. Graily Hewitt's Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of the Diseases of Women, and Dr. Holmes on The Surgical Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. |