Annals of Industry and Genius. By C. L. Brightwell. (Nelson.)—
There are some twenty stories in this volume, most of which have already been told more than once. This is no reason, however, why they should not be told again. The books which contain them grow obsolete and hard of access ; in fact, the jewels, so to speak, have to be reset. Miss Brightwell—we can only conjecture the proper title—does it sufficiently well. Those who think that the lives of such men as Sir William Jones, Cervantes, Tycho, Brahe, Franklin, Heiberg, Gifford, Ate., are better worth reading than the literature of the Jack Sheppard and wild-Indian type, may find something here that will be readable enough, oven if it does not pretend to satisfy a critical taste.
In a notice, a fortnight ago, in the Spectator of Clark's Ante-Nicene Christian Library, it should have been stated that the Rev. S. T. F. Salmond was associated with the Rev. John H. MacMahon, M.A., of Dublin, in translating St. Hippolyte's works. The Refutatio anniunt Theresium, now well known from the controversial writings of Bunsen, Wordsworth, and Hollinger, has been translated by Mr. MacMahon, who has already rendered into English a Greek text of kindred difficulties and somewhat cognate phraseology, namely, Aristotle's Metaphysics, (Bohn's Classical Library.)
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