ing,
as they seem to have escaped the vigilant eye of the editor. Speaking
of Guizot and Sismondi as the leaders of the school of French
philosophical historians, he remarks that "the English language
possesses some good specimens of this class of history; the most
remarkable are Gibbon's Decline and Fall and the works of Mr. Millar."
This is as if the author had said that England possessed some good
specimens of the Romantic Drama, the most remarkable being
Shakspeare's Macbeth and the works of Mr. Colman.

Again, in speaking of the novels of Paul de Kock, and protesting
against those English critics who call him the first writer of his
time and country, he says that it is as ridiculous as it would be in
Frenchmen to exalt the novels of Charles Dickens above Ivanhoe,
_Philip Augustus_ and Eugene Aram, The idea of a Frenchman thinking it
a paradox to rank Dickens above James, or even Bulwer, shows how
difficult it is for a foreigner, especially a Frenchman, to pass
beyond the external form of English literature.

The author deserves the praise of being a sensible man, in the English
meaning of the phrase. There is one sentence in his introductory
which proves that his mind has escaped one besetting sin of the French
intellect, which has prevented its successful cultivation of politics
as a practical science. In speaking of the histories of Thiers and
Mignet, he says that they "have hatched a swarm of _Jeunes Prances_,
vociferating in their wild aberrations, emphatic eulogies on Marat,
Coulhon and Robespierre, and breathing a love of blood and
destruction, which they call the progressive march of events."

_Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe, Ex-King of the
French, Giving a History of the French Revolution from,
its Commencement in 1789. By Benj. Perley Poore,
Boston: Wm. D. Ticknor & Co. 1 vol. 12mo._

Of all the publications we have seen relating to Louis Philippe this
is the most complete and the most agreeable. The author, from his long
residence in Paris, and from his position as Historical Agent of the
State of Massachusetts, was enabled to collect a large mass of matter
relating to French history, and also to learn a great deal respecting
the Orleans dynasty, which would not naturally find its way into
print. The present volume, though it has little in relation to the
first French Revolution not generally known by students, embodies a
large number of important facts respecting Louis Philipp