11 DECEMBER 1830, Page 16

Mr. Bleier HiliOircif thereuch Revolutions shall be place ; d in our

Library with .due henour,, The. volume now published:: embraces the period ..fromthe opening of the first RevOlutionto the Consulate" of Buormrsams. If as written with fairness' and-. impartiality; and it is the only English work en the subject, Of - which.we can say thus 'mud); At the- same time, it is a mere narrative of events and'staternent of opinions—the narrative being concise, the statement elem..: .we perceive no new views in indeed it ' makes' no such pretension, nor could its compositioá. have been difficult to a sensible writer like Mr. BELL, with 'MIG-• NOT, and more- particularly the. work of THUM, before him. In fact, this History ought An have.composed- a part. of one of the popular series of works now in the course of publication. It would.. have been creditable to any of them. We do not think them very strong in thebistoricaldepartmenL. The truth is, a 'conscientious abridgment of a national history is a task of infinite but thankless labour. A single page perhaps embraces a score of years, and the spirit of many weeks'; even months';. study: It is frequently an easier taskto. detail the items:of history than to give-the sums- total. Yet an abridgment of. history is a kind of balance-sheet, exhibiting a general view of these sums-total. Most of the modern abridgments are. things _yariiped Up at second-hand from the readiest authority... It would be easy to take a page, almost any-. where, and show that, of a dozen general 'sentences, describing the tendency of events during the period, eleven are erroneous.