1. The Centenary of Darwin: Darwin and his Modern Critics 2. The Making of an Epic: Firdausi and Homer 3. A Journal of the French Revolution 4. New Light upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia' 5. The Mystical Element of Religion. 6. Recent French Poetry; and Racine 7. Early Flemish Painters. 8. Tolstoy and Turgeniev 9. Recent State Finance and the Budget 10. George Canning and his Friends 11. The Privileges of the House of Commons in regard to Finance 12. The Centenary of 'The Quarterly Review' (II) 13. The Lords and the Budget Index to Vol. CCX. No. 421.-OCTOBER, 1909. 1. The Nationalisation of British Railways 2. The United States through Foreign Spectacles 4. The Influence of Darwinism upon Theology 5. The Upper Anio 6. The Declaration of London 7. Sport and Decadence 8. The English Conception of Police 9. Porfirio Diaz-Soldier and Statesman 10. The Needs of the Navy 11. England, France, and Russia: the Rôle of the Triple Entente 12. The New Radicalism Index to Vol. CCXI J 1. Recollections of a Long Life. By Lord Broughton (John Cam Hobhouse). Edited by his daughter, Lady Dorchester. Two vols. London: Murray, 1909. 2. The Substance of some Letters written by an English- man resident at Paris during the Last Reign of the 1. A Guide to the various classes of Documents preserved in the Public Record Office. By S. R. Scargill-Bird. Third edition. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1908. 2. Studies in English Official Historical Documents. By ART. 3.-JACOPONE DA TODI: THE POET OF THE 'STABAT 1. Bibliographical Notes on the Poems of the Blessed Jacopone da Todi, and on the writers who speak of him. By Eduard Boehmer. Romanische Studien, 1871. 2. Jacobone da Todi, il Giullare di Dio del secolo xiii. 1. Jerusalem: the Topography, Economics, and History, from the Earliest Times to A.D. 70. By George Fleming H. Revell Co., 1908. And other works. ART. 6.—THE RISE OF THE NATIVE - 1. East India (Advisory and Legislative Councils). Pro- posals of the Government of India, etc. Government Bluebook, London, 1908; and the Government of India Gazette, Calcutta, November 15, 1909. 2. Les Grottes de Grimaldi (Baoussé Roussé), etc. By Dr Verneaux, and others. (A description of prehistoric 1. The Condition of England. By C. F. G. Masterman. 2. The Queen's Poor: Life as they find it in Town and Country. The Next Street But One. From Their ART. 8.-DEMOCRACY IN SWITZERLAND 1. Les Constitutions Fédérales de la Confédération Suisse. Par C. Hilty, Docteur en Droit, Professeur à l'Université de Berne. Neuchâtel, 1891. ART. 11.-BEFORE AND AFTER THE DESCENT FROM ELBA 240 Le Revirement de la Politique Autrichienne. Négocia- Angus or Forfarshire, the Land and People. Five vols. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 422.-JANUARY, 1910. Art 1.-BYRON AND BONAPARTE. 1. Recollections of a Long Life. By Lord Broughton (John Cam Hobhouse). Edited by his daughter, Lady Dorchester. Two vols. London: Murray, 1909. 2. The Substance of some Letters written by an Englishman resident at Paris during the Last Reign of the Emperor Napoleon. Two vols. London: Ridgways, 1816. 3. Byron: the Last Phase. By Richard Edgcumbe. London: Murray, 1909. ALL books of good gossip are good things, but one strongly flavoured with two such ingredients as our title indicates transcends its congeners. In the history of Europe there have not appeared half a dozen human manifestations upon the Napoleonic plane, nor have there arisen more than that number of poets as great or greater than Byron in the literature of England. These two personages were in their several ways the most prominent children of the French Revolution, and every new thing written of them has still that odour of freshness which hangs about all topics that have been touched by the rose of the great epoch. Lord Broughton was a well-known social and literary figure in the first half of the nineteenth century. A catalogue of his works fills more than a column in the pages of the Dictionary of National Biography. But of these we need only now mention his two octavo volumes published in 1816 upon Napoleon's Last Reign,' from Elba to Waterloo, and his 'Recollections of a Long Life,' privately printed in 1865. The first of these was somewhat severely attacked at the time of its publication, Vol. 212.-No. 422. B |