style is careful, perhaps too formal and technical. We are not prepared to say how far such a work, however successful in its way, is needed, or likely to be helpful in composition, but students of poetry will find much in it that is entertaining and suggestive. We have noted in one or two instances something like a provincialism in the confusion of the words will and shall. NEW EDITION OF IRVING'S WORKS.- -Messrs. Geo. P. Putnam's Sons have commenced the publication of a new edition of Washington Irving's complete works in twenty-six volumes, which are to be printed from entirely new electrotype plates and to be amply illustrated. Diedrich Knickerbocker's "History of New York" has already appeared, and is prefaced by a "biographical and critical study" of Washington Irving by Mr. Charles Dudley Warner. Mr. Warner's essay, and the oration on Irving by William Cullen Bryant, which he delivered in New York in 1860, and the "Personal Reminiscences of Irving" by the late Mr. Geo. P. Putnam which were printed in the Atlantic Monthly in 1860, have been published also in a separate volume. BLANQUI'S HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN EUROPE.*—Mr. David A. Wells, who introduces this English translation of a work which has attained a world-wide reputation, says that "it is a mistake to refer the origin of political economy to a very recent period; so recent in fact, as many suppose, as the latter half of the eighteenth century. It is indeed true that at the period referred to, the record of the experience of mankind in the work of bettering their material condition was for the first time carefully and philosophically studied, and the principles deducible from such experience elaborately formulated by Turgot, Quesnay, Adam Smith, and others. But the experience dates back to the very dawn of civilization, and in its lessons and applications has ever since constituted the foundation and framework of every structure of progressive human society, irrespective of locality upon the earth's surface, or race difference, in its individual constituency." It is the narration of these experiences from the time of the Greeks and Romans down to the year 1842, which M. Blanqui has attempted in the work before us. We have only space to announce the publication of the English translation of this important and interesting work by Mr. Geo. P. Putnam's Sons. *History of Political Economy in Europe.-By Jérome-Adolphe Blanqui. Translated from the fourth French edition by EMILY J. LEONARD, with Preface by David A. Wells. New York: Geo. P. Putnam's Sons. 1880. 8vo. pp. 585. GIESELER'S CHURCH HISTORY, VOL. V.*-Professor H. B. 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