FAREL and FROMENT to preach the gospel in Geneva fail through the violence of its antagonists; but the seed sown by FROMENT Sprang up in due time. At first it was trampled down in civil contest; and the death of one of the clerical chiefs, by leading to the recal of the bishop, seems to threaten the extinction of the liberty and religion of the city. FROMENT'S singular open-air sermon, the history of OLIVETAN's translation of the Bible, FAREL'S visit to the Waldenses, and Bellegarde's mission to CHARLES V., all find their due place. Many original documents, which the Author has discovered during the course of his investigations, throw a fresh light or add new facts to the portion of history contained in the present volume. Apologia Pro Vita Sua; being a Reply to a I. Mr. Kingsley's Method of Disputation, 1s. PART VI. History of my Religious Opinions (concluded), 2s. 6d. THIS PART VII. Answer in detail to Mr. Kingsley's Accusations. [On June 2. HIS work is an answer to a charge brought by Professor KINGSLEY that Dr. NEWMAN denied the obligation of Roman Catholics to speak the truth, and that in a sermon preached about twenty years ago at Oxford he had affirmed that truthfulness was not in itself a Christian virtue. To a charge so serious the Author felt that he could make a sufficient reply only by furnishing the true key to the meaning of his life; in the present narrative, therefore, his wish has been not to expound doctrine but simply to explain himself, his opinions, and actions, and to state facts precisely as they occurred, whether they are ultimately to be determined for him or against him. Thus the FIRST PART of the Apologia is strictly subordinate to the real scope of the work, which is designed to trace the history of the Author's religious life from his earliest years. In the THIRD PART the Author has attempted to estimate the influence which those with whom he came into contact at Oxford severally exercised upon him,-especially Dr. WHATELY, Dr. HAWKINS, Mr. BLAND WHITE, Mr. KEBLE, Mr. HURRELL FROUDE. In this PART the narrative is brought down to 1833, when the movement known as the Tractarian may be said to have been fairly begun. The FOURTH PART states the exact position assumed by the Author in this movement, with regard (1) to the principle of dogma, (2) to definite religious teaching based upon dogma, and (3) to the Church of Rome; and it then relates the process by which the movement tended to raise up a system of theology on the Anglican idea and based upon Anglican authorities, in opposition to the basis of Roman teaching, and thus to establish the Via Media as the ground to be assumed by members of the Church of England. With a relation of the events which attended and immediately followed the publication of Tract 90, PART IV. is brought to an end. The FIFTH PART recounts the steps by which the Author was driven to see that the controversy lay between the book theology of Anglicanism on the one side and what he considered the living system of Roman corruption on the other; while it exhibits further the dilemma in which the persistent effort to maintain this distinction involved him. But while the course of his reading brought out in his judgment the startling similarity between the position of the English Church and that of the Monophysites and Arians, while the position of the Roman Church appeared to him unchanged, whether in ancient or modern controversy,-the establishment of the confirm Jerusalem Bishopric concurred to doubts, which had already acquired no little strength, in the vitality of the Church of England as an actual branch of the Church Catholic. This event, with some remarks on which the FIFTH PART closes, brought the Author to the beginning of the end. The Dolomite Mountains: Excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friu i in 1861, 1862, and 1863. By J. GILBERT and G. C. CHURCHILL, F.G.S. Pp. 596, with a Travelling Map of the District, a Sketch Map geologically coloured, 6 Plates in chromolithography, and 26 Engravings on Wood. Square crown 8vo. price 21s. cloth. [May 28, 1364. THE South Eastern Alps, comprising the Venetian Carnic, Julian, and Karavanken ranges, have hitherto almost entirely escaped the notice of tourists. Yet the Carnic and Julian Alps were frequently spoken of by Sir Humphry Davy as possessing scenery unsurpassed in Europe; and the Italian Tyrol has long been known to science as offering, in the Dolomite Mountains, landscape features unique in character with geological phenomena of the highest in terest. The present volume is the result of five different tours among these Alps. In the first two chapters the Authors describe their earliest glimpses of Dolomite scenery, obtained when, in 1856, they and their party had crossed over the Noric Alps from Gastein, in Salzburg, to the remote and little known province of Carinthia, and as they afterwards skirted the principal Dolomitic region (more than 3,000 square miles in extent) as far as Botzen in South Tyrol. In the third chapter, Mr. CHURCHILL tells the story of a solitary excursion in 1860, and places before the reader many curious particulars — legendary, historical, and geological-respecting the Schlern district (the ancient route to the Brenner, and interesting to the lovers of Mediæval Romance as having been once the abode of Oswald the Minnesinger), the Seisser Alp, with its rim of Dolomites, and Val Fassa, with its extinct Vol canos. Mr. GILBERT then in several chapters gives the narrative of a journey in 1861, when the again united party traversed on foot the Dolomite Valleys from the Brenner road to that of the Ampezzo; and afterwards visited in succession the Gail Thal in Carinthia, the Valley of the Isonzo in Görz, that of the upper Save in Carniola, and the extraordinary Caldron' of the Steiner Alp in Styria. In this journey the principal points of interest were the wonderful scenery of the Dolomite country itself; the traces of the great Roman road from Aquileia over the Carnic Alps; the remarkable habitat of the Wulfenia, a plant, so far as known, confined to a single mountain in the lower Gail Thal; Wurzen and its charming neighbourhood, the favourite resort of Sir Humphry Davy in the upper Save; and the 'Caldron, one of the most singular valleys in Europe. The account of the tour in 1862 is opened by a chapter derived from the letters of Mrs. Churchill, describing the visits of herself and husband to the Lavant Thal in Eastern Carinthia, to portions of the Karavanken Alps, to Klagenfurt the capital of the province, &c. and including a narrative of the adventures of Professor Vulpius, a German botanist in search of the Wulfenia Four more chapters upon its native mountain. detail the wanderings of the party, when again assembled, through Friuli, south of the Carnic Chain, to the wild rock scenery of Auronzo, and thence through Cadore, the country of TITIAN, and some portions before omitted of the Dolomite district; concluding with an excursion to Primiero, a town eight hours from any road, in the heart of the mountains of South Tyrol, and originally founded by fugitives from the invasion of ATTILA. The seventeenth chapter is devoted to a supplementary journey, in 1863, to several out-of-theway spots in Carinthia and Tyrol, among which were Friesach, where Richard Cœur de Lion was arrested on his return from Palestine; St. Veit.' the ancient historical centre of the former province' the roadless and unvisited Lessach Thal; and the magnificent Valley of Sexten in Eastern Tyrol. The concluding (geological) chapter, by Mr. CHURCHILL, gives a physical description of the Dolomite region, in which he delineates the Relief, enumerates the periods of geologic change in its western portion, and puts the reader in possession of some of the theories respecting the formation of Dolomite, elucidating especially that of Baron Richthofen, which declares the chief of these mountains to have been originally coral reefs. The ILLUSTRATIONS, thirty-two in number, are all engraved from original drawings made during the several tours, and are as follows:Full-page Plates in Chromo-lithography. 1. The Langkofel and Plattkogel, from the Seisser Alp. 2. Monte Civita, with the Lake and Village of Alleghe. 3. Cirque of the Croda Malcora, near Cortina. 4. Castello Pietra, Primiero. 5. General View of the Rosengarten Gebirge, from the Sasso di Damm, Val Fassa. 6. Sasso di Pelmo, from Monte Zucco. Wood Engravings in the Text. 1. Heraldic Dolomite, from the Arms of a Carinthian Nobleman. 2. Dolomite Mountains, near Lienz. 4. Sasso di Pelmo, from Santa Lucia, near Caprile. 5. The Langkofel and Plattkogel, from Campitello. 6. Cortina, the Croda Malcora, and Antelao in the background. 7. The Kollinkofel, Valentiner Thal, Carnic Alps. 8. Barn in Styria. 9. The Mangert, and Sir Humphry Davy's Lake, Julian Alps. 10. Shrine, near Lengenfeld, Save Thal. 13. Val Auronzo, the Drei Zinnen in the distance. 16. Monte Antelao, Ampezzo Road. 17. Sella Plateau, from Santa Maria, Gröden Thal. 18. Agordo. 19. Castello, near Buchenstein. 20. Marmolata, from the Sasso di Damm. 26. Monte Civita, from Caprile. Düren See, near Eastern Europe and Western Asia: Political and Social Sketches on Russia, Greece, and Syria in 1861, 1862, and 1863. By HENRY ARTHUR TILLEY, Author of 'Japan, the Amoor, and the Pacific.' Pp. 386; with 6 Lithographic Illustrations. Post 8vo. price 10s. 6d. cloth. [March 14, 1864. IN this volume, which relates the incidents of a journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow and thence across the steppes of Southern Russia to Sebastopol, and of voyages from Taganrog to Odessa and Smyrna, and finally, in a Russian frigate, to the coasts of Greece and Syria, the Author has endeavoured, after sketching the rapid growth of Russian power, to give an accurate description of the present state of Russian society, and of the progress of reforming and revolutionary ideas, especially during the reign of the present Emperor. He has given special attention to the late emancipation of the Russian seris, and the probable effects of the measure on all ranks of the Russian people In a chapter on the Polish insurrection, the real character of the struggle between Poles and Russians is traced to the ancient rivalry between the two nations, which dates from a remote epoch long anterior to the rise of the Russian empire. In the chapters on the affairs of Greece both before and during the late Revolution, of which some account is given, the Author has dwelt on the change in the behaviour of the people after the rejection of the Greek crown for Prince Alfred on the part of the British Government, as furnishing the key to their history since the expulsion of King Otho. He also exposes the causes which retard the moral and material prosperity of the country. The Author's visit to the Lebanon and Damascus took place at a time which enabled him to judge of the state of feeling which immediately followed the massacre of the Christians. The ILLUSTRATIONS comprise a view of the King's Palace and Constitution Place at Athens, after a photograph taken from the Acropolis; and five subjects, by a Russian artist, illustrative of Russian national life, viz. an Artel' or work. shop on the communistic principle, a ‘Kabak' or dram-shop, the interior of a 'Kabak' or dramshop, a Street-scene in Cronstadt and a Fair of the Ukrain, with a group of Moscow merchants. What I saw in Syria, Palestine, and Greece: a Narrative from the Pulpit. By S. SMITH, M.A., Vicar of Lois Weedon, and Rural Dean; Author of The Revelation, with at short, plain, continuous Exposition.' Pp. 284; with 2 Maps. Post 8vo. price 68. 6d. cloth. [May 28, 1864. ON his return to England in 1863, the Author found that his parishioners wished generally to learn the details of his sojourn in the East; he determined, therefore, to meet their wishes by giving them the substance of his journal in a series of short narratives from the pulpit of his parish church. These narratives are published in the present volume in the hope that they may enable the reader to realise more sensibly the scenes and characters of the Bible. Instances of the Power of God as manifested in His Animal Creation: a Lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association. Nov. 17, 1863. By R. OWEN, D.C.L. F.R.S. Superintendent of the Natural History Departments, British Museum. Crown 8vo. pp. 80, price 18. sewed. [May 31, 1864. THIS HIS discourse, introductory to the series of lectures to the Young Men's Christian Association' for 1863-4, was delivered, and printed, at the request of the Committee of the Association in November, 1863. The aim of the Lecturer was to exemplify the operations of a fore-ordaining Mind in the construction of animal bodies, and to adduce instances of misapprehensions of scriptural texts which had been and only could be rectified by the light of science. It was generally and is still commonly believed, that serpents exemplify a transmutation of species; but by miracle, as having been penally degraded on account of the part played in the temptation of Eve. The Lecturer deemed this view to be one on which he could throw light by his knowledge of Comparative Anatomy and Paleontology. Referring to the analogous forms of animals in other classes, as, e.g., the worms, centipedes, eel-tribes, &c., he shows how admirably the reptilian organisation is analogously modified to endow serpents with the power they possess of subsisting on higher animals, and adduces instances of fossil serpents of the same organisation Essays on the Administrations of Great Britain from 1783 to 1830, contributed to the Edinburgh Review.' By the Right Hon. Sir GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, Bart. Edited by the Right Hon. Sir EDMUND HEAD, Bart., K.C.B. Pp. 524; with a Portrait from a Photograph, engraved by F. Holl. price 15s. cloth. [March 17, 1864. 8vo. in geological strata of vastly greater antiquity DURING Sir George Lewis's lifetime a wish than the oldest in which evidences of man have been detected. The Lecturer believed that the aim he had in view would be strikingly shown by contrasting the date of creation, as calculated canonically, with the demonstration which Geology and Palæontology have yielded of the vast periods of time during which our planet has revolved under the influences favourable to the life of plants and animals. The Lecturer briefly adduces the proofs, based on adequate observation, that death was natural to all living individuals from their first introduction upon the earth, and that commonly by violence; in the case of animals it was through the exercise of the destructive weapons with which the carnivorous species were endowed; and he shows that such conditions of life and death prevailed during long ages antecedent to the existence of man. Reminding his audience that Scripture teaches all that is essential to the right life here and the life to come, and that the eternal truths are made plain to the humblest intellect, he warns them that it is the human element mingling or meddling with the Divine which science exposes, and that it is to misinterpretations on which are based ' schemes of doctrine,' and the like dogmatic systems, that the discoveries of the Power of God are adverse. He concludes by adjuring all young Christian men to search the Scriptures with a mind as free as possible from the sectarian formularies through which they may have been originally introduced to a knowledge of the Bible, and above all to square their actions by Christian ethics, for He that doeth of the will shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God.' Some time after the first issue of this 'Discourse,' as delivered at Exeter Hall, November 17, 1863, the Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association decided to omit it, with two other lectures of the series, from the usual annual volume. Numerous demands for the lecture, after the exhaustion of that edition, have determined the Lecturer to publish it as originally written, including some passages which were omitted, for want of time, at the delivery. He has appended replies to two kinds of objections which the first issue called forth. was often expressed that the Essays now brought together in this volume might be published in a collective form. No one but the Author could have done this as he would have wished it to be done: the Editor has simply endeavoured to place them before the reader in the best shape which they can now assume without his revision and superintendence. The articles, which do not profess to give a continuous narrative, or to contain a complete history of the period to which they relate, are, in fact, a commentary on the ministerial history of England, and require to be read with a certain previous knowledge of the general outline of that history. In the Review, for want of space, passages were omitted, and notes and references were curtailed. Where the original proofs exist (which is not the case with all the articies), these passages and notes have been restored. On the other hand, the text of the Review, where it differs from that of the proof, has, as a general rule, been considered as embodying the Author's last corrections and expressing his final opinions. No history can be more valuable than that which supplies us with the key to the present action of our Government, and which explains the moral working of the laws and polity under which we live. To understand the nature of the English Constitution, and appreciate its results, the student must have traced its origin and watched its growth. This progressive character of the English Constitution-which is, in fact, its excellence, and which accounts for its length of life-is peculiarly illustrated by the history of the times covered by these Essays. They are the work of a writer who has won a deserved and lasting reputation as being not only singularly acute and industrious, but singularly impartial and fair. Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844. Edited, with Notes, by A. HAYWARD, Esq., Q.C. Post 8vo. pp. 374, price 10s. 6d. cloth. [May 6, 1864. THE Lady of Quality, the cream of whose diaries is collected in this book, is the late Miss FRANCES WILLIAMS WYNN, daughter of Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN (the fourth Baronet), 436 and CHARLOTTE, daughter of the Right Honourable GEORGE GRENVILLE (the Minister), who was the son of the Countess TEMPLE. Miss WYNN was consequently the niece of the first Duke of BUCKINGHAM, of Lord GRENVILLE, and of the Right Honourable THOMAS GRENVILLE, and the sister of the Right Honourable CHARLES WYNN, and Sir HENRY WYNN (long Minister at Copen. hagen). She lived a great deal at Stowe and Dropmore in her youth; and, through her connexions and acquaintance, enjoyed ample opportunities for taking notes of remarkable people and events. 'How many of us,' observes the Editor in his Prefatory Notice, have regretted that we did not make a note at the time of what we heard 'fall from persons who had been prominent 'actors on the political or literary stage, or who 'had even been behind the scenes when a memorable performance was arranged or in progress. 'How unlucky, have we thought, that we did not in the now forgotten the striking passage copy book, or the curious letter which we might ' easily have borrowed for the purpose; or, that 'we did not cut out and keep the clever newspaper article or quaint paragraph which so 'much struck everybody. Then why, on finding that this has been judiciously done by another, should we not profit by his or her sagacity, industry, and taste? Such were the questions that suggested themselves to me when I had gone over these diaries with the view of deciding 'whether a book, calculated to reflect credit on 'the collector, could be compiled from them.' The work, which certainly does credit to the taste and assiduity of the Diarist, presents a varied miscellany of anecdotes, criticisms, and reflections. The reported conversations with Sir HENRY HALFORD, Sir WALTER SCOTT, General ALAVA, the Queen of WURTEMBERG, Sir STAMFORD RAFFLES, the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, Mr. BANKES, Lord BARRINGTON, Lord NUGENT, and many other persons of rank and note, abound in characteristic details; and fresh light is thrown in several places on some disputed questions in modern literature. The notes embody numerous anecdotes, which now appear in print for the first time, illustrative and confirmatory of the events mentioned or alluded to in the Diaries. one years, during which the Author was honoured with the intimate friendship of Mr. WILBERFORCE. Although the illustration of the private and social virtues of that eminent Statesman and Philanthropist is the main object of the volume, its pages are largely interspersed with recollections of his public life, and with anecdotes of many of the distinguished men of his time with whom he was intimate or familiar. It further gives some idea of him as he was seen in the retirement of the country, among friends whom he daily delighted by his wisdom and wit, by the charm of his colloquial powers, and by the attractive influence of his religious and benevolent affections. Numerous familiar letters of Mr. WILBERFORCE add variety to the contents of this work, which closes with some brief reminiscences of Mrs. HANNAH MORE and of the Rev. R. C. WHALLEY. steadily kept in view, first, to paint the Duke exactly as he was, and next to meet the wishes of readers to whom the minute details of military and political operations are not very attractive, and who do not care to enter, like professional statesmen, into the technicalities of political movements. These points of history have, therefore, been so handled that they may as little as possible stand between the reader and the true object of the narrative, the Duke himself. The result, it is hoped, is a portrait which shall do full justice to his great qualities, without seeking to hide or to explain away the weaknesses which he shared in common with his fellow-men. The opening chapter of this volume describes the incidents of his early career, including his first experience of war in the Netherlands. Chapters 3 and 4 give a sketch of his career in India. Chapter 5 shows how he managed Ireland as Chief Secretary; and what part he played in the expedition to Copenhagen. What follows of the work up to Chapter 26 is illustrative of his great career, and of his personal sayings and doings throughout the war of the Peninsula; and chapters 27 and 28 paint him in Flanders and at Waterloo. The remainder of the work is occupied with a narrative of his political career, whether in the Cabinet at home or in |