MisceLwaseous.—Li Livres du Gouvernentent des Ras, edited, with Notes, by
Samuel Paul Molenaer, A.M. (Macmillan and Co., 12s. 6d.), is a French translation of the "De Regimine Principum," by Egidio Colonna (1247-1316), now published for the first time. The translation seems to be substantially that of Henri de Gauchi made near the close of the thirteenth century. The old French is curious and interesting.—The Story of the British Race, by John Munro (George Newnes, Is.), Is an account of the component parts which go to make up that_very remarkable, and, perhaps we may venture to say, effec- tive, combination known popularly as "English." but more correctly described as British. The reader Who studies it to good purpose may very well go on to see its virtues illustrated in a very interesting little book, In Danger's Hour (Cassell and Co., Is. 8d.) The names that occur in these tales of "Stout Hearts and Stirring Deeds" are an appropriate comment,—Eyre, Have- lock, Colin Campbell, Kavanagh, Smith, Kane (of the Calliope '). —An important portion of the history of the United States, now possessing, it may be said, a purely academical interest, is The True History of the Missouri Compromise and its Repeal, by Mrs. Archibald Dixon (Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati ; 16s.) Mrs. Dixon is the widow of the statesman who took the chief part in bringing about the Repeal, the Compromise itself having become law in 1821, when, according to the suggestion originally made by Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, and carried out by Mr. Clay, slavery was prohibited north of 36° 30', as a compensation to the admission of Missouri with her slave property into the Union. Mrs. Dixon's book is a plea for what she considers to be justice to the South.—From the same publishers we have received an Introduction to the Study of North American Archwology, by Pro- fessor Cyrus Thomas (8s.), a review of the antiquities of the Indian tribes of the Atlantic division of North America as far as Mexico.—A very interesting book, whether we regard its sub- ject and the treatment it receives or its place of origin, is Cases on International Law during the China-Japanese War, by Professor Takahashi (Cambridge University Press, 10s.), which is intro- duced to the English public by Professors Holland and Westlake.
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