We have received three neat volumes, conveniently enclosed in a
case, which bear the title of Representative British Orations, with Introductions and Explanatory Notes, by Charles Kendall Adams. (T. Fisher Unwin.) —The first of these contains a speech by Sir John Eliot, and another by John Pym, two by Lord Chatham, the latter
being his great speech of November 18th, 1777, against the con- tinuance of the war in America, and one each by Lord Mansfield and Edmund Berke. The second volume contains a single specimen from the orations of Pitt, Fox, Sir James Mackintosh, and Lord Erskine ; the third volume gives us the same from the speeches of Canning,
Macaulay, and Cobden, of Mr. Bright, Lord Beaconsfield, and Mr Gladstone. Lord Beaconsfield's speech i6 the famous " omnia sanitas" one, delivered at Manchester in 1872, after Sir Charles Dilke had attacked Monarchy on the ground of its expense; that of Mr. Gladstone is one of the Midlothian speeches of 1879.
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