12 MAY 1838, Page 17

Mr. JAMES'S fifth and last volume of the Lives of

the Most Eminent Statesmen, (in Dr. LARDNEIt'S Cabinet Cycloptedia,) contains FLEURY, ZINZENDORF, POMBIL, FLORIDA BLANCA, CHOISEUL, and Nausea. As in the former volumes of this series, there is rather too much of public history for good biography ; but done in a workmanlike manner, and affording incidentally a coup dceil of the courts, public men, and public events of the principal European nations during the last century—the people, as Mr. JAMES truly remarks, were not thought of in those days.