Magazine.—September,—Professor Seeley continuos his lectures on the relation between history
and politics, the present chapter being mainly a protest against the influence of party fooling on the study of history. Professor Seeley maintains this feeling to be fatal not only to impartiality, but to knowledge, the continuity of the party contests being far less perfect than most students deceived by names are apt to suppose. The pro- test is eloquent, and one which requires to be written, though we suspect the contest between the worshippers of authority and liberty, aristocracy and democracy, the past and the future, has been continuous down all the stream of English history, though historians may mistake sometimes which party represents which. Mr. Minto is amusing upon Mr. Macvey Napier's correspondence ; and Mrs. Meath, under the unpretending title of " Needle- work in German Schools," gives valuable information as to the state of female education in Germany.• Her judgment is unfavour- able on the popular schools, and leaves the impression that the minds of female pupils, at least, are rather strained than aroused. Fifteen subjects are taught, but the girls carry away nothing but knitting. There is an extraordinary deficiency in the amount bf teacher-power. Mr. Lang's account of Cyprus is temperate and intelligent, his general conclusion being that the island is worth keeping ; that the ill-health of the troops was accidental, and that, with patience, most of the administrative abuses may be remedied. Tho main want of the island seems to be au experienced Indian Governor, with power gently to smooth away Turkish systems.
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