remedies practicable in the present, and the hopes existing for the
future. So large is the circle of readers who look with interest for
every one of Gioberti's productions, that two simultaneous editions have
been issued; one in two volumes 8vo. each of eight hundred pages, and
the other in two volumes, 16mo. each of six hundred.

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The _Israel of the Alps, a History of the Vaudois of Piedmont and of
their Colonies_, is the title of a work, by ALEXIS MUSTON, fulfilling a
promise made by the author in 1834, in a volume on the same subject. It
consists of an account of the martyrdoms of Calabria and Provence, and
embraces a period from the origin of those colonies to the end of the
sixteenth century. In the second part are described the extraordinary
sufferings and deliverances of the Piedmontese--the massacre of
1658--the dispersion of the Vaudois into foreign lands--the return to
their own, under the orders of Colonel Arnaud--and an entirely new
exposition is given of the negotiations which led to the official
re-establishment of the Vaudois in their native valleys. The author has
filled up the gaps of the Vaudois historians, Gilles, Leger, and Arnaud,
and, by the aid of numerous inedited documents, has established a
succession of facts in relation to the history of the churches of the
Piedmontese, and those of the colonies, to which Wirtemberg,
Brandenburg, and Switzerland are indebted for their evangelical faith.
M. Muston, contrary to the opinions of Gieseler, Neander, and Schmidt,
agrees with that school of writers--from Perrin to Monastier--who
suppose that the evangelical churches of Piedmont existed before the
reformer Pierre Waldo, and trace their origin to the apostolic ages.
This opinion has much to support it--in the authority of many centuries,
in the unanimous convictions of the Vaudois historians, and in evidences
given by the most ancient monuments of their language, particularly the
poem entitled the _Noble Lesson_, which bears inscribed its own date
(1100), and the literary perfection of which certainly suggests an
anterior literature. J. Bonnett (_Archives du Christianisme_, for
October 16) notices the work very favorably, but considers it imperfect
in many particulars, and the author is charged especially with omissions
in the catalogue of the defenders of the faith, whose blood was so
profusely spilled in their beautiful valleys, and