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The History of Belgium, 1815-1866. By Demetrius O. Bonlger. (Sir

lease Pitman and Sons, 18s. net.)—Sir Isaac Pitman has reissued the second volume of Mr. Boulger'e history of Belgium, with the addition of a brief synopsis of Belgian history from the time of Julius Caesar to Waterloo. The book, though written with a marked admiration for the struggles of the Belgian revolutionaries in 1830 and 1831 and the career and character of Leopold L, is creditably impartial as well as comprehensive in treatment, and con- stitutes the most complete study of the subject yet published in English. It is understood that Mr. Boulger is now engaged upon the third volume of his work, which brings the story down to the present day.