New Enmoss.—Young Ireland. Part II. By Sir Charles Govan Duffy.
(M. H. Gill and Co., Dublin.)—This volume, part of what is called the "Irish People's Edition," relates the history of the years 1845-49. The writer remarks,—" In Ireland, hitherto, history has repeated itself with the fidelity of a stock-piece at the theatre, where nothing is changed from generation to generation but the actors."
Well, the actors are changed indeed ! Compare the " Young Ireland" of forty years ago with the crew of these days that earns its wages at Westminster by bad language and uproar,- Professor Mithaffy publishes a third edition, "revised and enlarged," of his Rambles and Studies in Greece. (Macmillan.)-Among the additions is a chapter, full of interest, describing the writer's visit to Sparta and Massone. He would not he himself without giving his readers some carious speculation: Here it is that the old Spartane were a somewhat luxurious people, "by no means so opposed to art as they have been represented in the histories." Well may Professor Mabaffy's reader exclaim with Solon, yqpicriac
bibacaapeves.-We have received a second edition of A History of the Reenans. By R. F. Horton, M. S.. (Rivingtons.)-Also the eighth volume of The Reader's Shakespeare (third of the Tragedies). (Walter Smith.)-It contains Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre.-On the subject of law we have new editions of May on Fraudulent and Voluntary Diu- pOSitions of Property, edited by S. W. Worthington, M.A. (Stevens and Haynes), brought op to time by as account of recent legisla- tion and judicial deoisions, the changes and additions being specially important in the matters of Bills of Sale and Nuptial Settlements.- Parliamentary Government in Pnglandt its Origin, Development, and Practical Operation. By Alpheus Todd, LL.D. Edited by his Son. Vol. I. (Longmans.)-Law Lyrics. (Alexander (lardner.)-The Poems of George D. Prentice. With a Biographical Sketch by John James Piatt. (Elliot Stock.) -Golden Girls. By Allan Muir. (John Hogg.)
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