D. Appleton & Co. have just published

LECTURES

ON

MODERN HISTORY.

BY

THOMAS ARNOLD, D.D.,

Author of "History of Rome." etc., etc.

With an Introduction and Notes by HENRY REED, Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. One handsome volume 12mo.

This volume contains the first Lectures which were delivered by Dr. Arnold after his appointment as Regius Professor of History in the university of Oxford. The series of Lectures must be considered merely as introductory to the expanded views and researches which the author would have developed had his life been prolonged. In the primary lecture which was delivered when he entered upon his official duty, the lecturer presented his definition of history with a summary of the duties appertaining to the professor of it. Appropriate, dignified and perspicuous, it exhibits both originality and power in a high degree, commingled with felicitous illustrations of the characteristics, effects, and value of historical literature.-Four lectures follow on the study of history, rich in the prominent topics of inquiry concerning national prosperity-among which, with masterly eloquence and delineations he adverts to the political economy, the religious controversies, the national wars, and the geographical relations of countries.The next three lectures contain a survey of European history, particularly examining the revolutions in ecclesiastical affairs, and the continuous struggles to cast off the despotic yoke, and to gain and establish religious and civil freedom. The eighth lecture displays the nature of that historical testimony which claims and merits credence. In this disquisition the author exhibits in his truth and forcefulness the law of evidence and the method of its application in investigating historical facts.-The course of Lectures is an elegant memorial of the author whose unquenchable philanthropy and untiring zeal in behalf of the best interests of mankind render his decease the subject of regret to the civilized world.

WILL SHORTLY PUBLISH

HISTORY

OF THE

ROMAN REPUBLIC.

BY

M. MICHELET,

Professor of History in the University of France, Author of The History of France,” etc., etc.

Translated by VICTOR G. BENNE, A.B One handsome 8vo volume "M. Michelet. in his history of the Roman Republic, first introduces the reader to the Ancient Geography of Italy; then by giving an excellent picture of the present state of Rome and the surrounding country, full of grand ruins, he excites in the reader the desire to investigate the ancient history of this wonderful land. He next imparts the results of the latest investigations, entire, deeply studied and clearly arranged, and saves the uneducated reader the trouble of investigating the sources, while he gives to the more educated mind an impetus to study the literature from which he gives very accurate quotations in his notes. He describes the peculiarities and the life of the Roman people in a masterly manner, and he fascinates every reader, by the brilliant clearness and vivia freshness of his style, while he shows himself a good historian, by the justness and impartiality with which he relates and philosophizes."

The Westminster Review observes: "His Histoire Romaine' is not only the history of institutions and ideas, as in Niebuhr, but also by virtue of the vast interpretative faculty of imagination, places the men of Rome, with their creeds and aspirations, vividly before you."

GALLERY

OF

LITERARY PORTRAITS.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

AMONG the great unknowns or half-knowns of the day, there are few less generally appreciated than the author of "Gebir," the "Imaginary Conversations," and the "Examination of Shakspeare." We remember once asking the keeper of a large public library if he had any of Landor's works? The reply was, "None, except his 'Travels in Africa. Has he written any more?" confounding him, proh pudor! with Clapperton's enterprising body-man. It was in keeping with the story of a person in a commercial town, who, when some wight from Edinburgh was speaking of Coleridge and Shelley, asked eagerly, "What firm is that? I never heard of it before; does it drive a good business?" And yet there are not many authors of the age about whom Posterity will make more particular inquiries, than about this same recluse, saturnine, and high-minded Savage. His soul is deeply steeped in the proud element of the past. He

erudition, but he

is not only a man of profound and varied lives and has his being in the olden time. His style is dyed in antiquity; his genius wears upon its wings, like a rich sunset, the hues of all perished ages. He goes farther back than Scott, whose view was bounded by the tenth century, who never could reproduce the classical periods, and whose sympathies were principally with the Gothic in the human soul. Landor, on the contrary, is a Greek, and yet holds of the romantic school too;-loves equally the stately and buskined heroes of Athenian song, and the "serene creators of immortal things," who have written in the "shadow of Skiddaw and by Grasmere springs." He is a solitary enthusiast sitting with half-shut eye in his still study, or under the groves of golden Italy, and in quaint dialogue or fine pantomimic conversing with the past. The "dead, but sceptred sovereigns who still rule our spirits from their urns," appear at his spell, and range themselves around him. Pericles, the Jupiter of Athens, stands with folded arms and collected might, as when he was wont to "shake the arsenal and fulmine over Greece." Aspasia bends beside him her majestic form, and turns toward him her lovelit eyes. Alcibiades, a restless shade wanders to and fro. Spenser stands up serene, pouring out melancholy and mellow accents, as erst on "Mulla's shore." Shakspeare's divine front-Milton's eyes, twinkling in vain to find the day-Cromwell's haggard countenance-Chatham's face inflamed, and tempestuous gesture -Fox's choking accents of fervour-Pitt's stately solemnity -Napoleon's eagle gaze-Southey's form, erect as his own holly tree-the large gray eyes of Porson,-are all reproduced as in a magic mirror, and the soul of the day-dreamer is glad. He speaks to them in their own language, for he has learned "the large utterance of those early Gods," and as a younger brother do they make him, too, free of their awful