THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

JULY, 1900 . . . . OCTOBER, 1900.

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO., LONDON.

LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY, NEW YORK.

1900.

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

A. 50750

MAR 14 1901

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CONTENTS OF No. 393.

Art. I.—The United Kingdom: a Political History. By Goldwin

Smith, D.C.L. 2 vols. 8vo. London and New

York: Macmillan & Co., 1899,

II.-Histoire de la Marine Française de 1815 à 1870.

Page

1

Par

E. Chevalier, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Paris: 1900, 24

III.-1. History of the Knights Templars. By C. G. Addison.

London: 1842.

2. Monuments Historiques relatifs à la Condamnation

des Chevaliers du Temple. Par F. J. M. Raynouard.

Paris

1813.

3. Histoire de la Condamnation des Templiers. Par

Pierre Du Puy. Bruxelles: 1751.

4. Histoire des Croisades. Par J. F. Michaud. Fourth

edition. Paris: 1825,

IV.-1. Annual Reports of the Congested Districts Board,

I to VIII. Dublin: 1892-1899.

2. Annual Reports of the Irish Agricultural Organisa-

tion Society, I. to V. Dublin: 1895-1899.

3. Annual Reports of the Irish Industries Association.

Dublin.

4. The Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland)

Act, 1899,

V.-1. The Life of Wellington: the Restoration of the

Martial Power of Great Britain. By the Right Hon.

Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. London:

Sampson Low & Co., 1899.

2. The Campaign of 1815, Ligny, Quatre-Bras, Waterloo.

By William O'Connor Morris. London: Grant

Richards, 1900,

VI.-1. Paris. By Augustus J. C. Hare. 2 vols. London:

Allen, 1900.

45

. 71

2. The Stones of Paris. By Benjamin and Charlotte

Martin. 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder & Co.,

1900.

3. Paris as it is. By Katharine de Forrest. Paris:

Brentano, 1900.

4. The Paris of To-day. By Richard Whiteing. (The

'Century Magazine.') New York: The Century Co.

London: Macmillan, 1900, .

. 91

. 117

Page

Art. VII.-A History of Northumberland. Issued under the

direction of the Northumberland County History

Committee. Volume I. The Parish of Bamburgh

with the Chapelry of Belford. By Edward Bateson

(1893). Volume II. The Parishes of Embleton,

Ellingham, Howick, Long Houghton, and Lesbury.

By Edward Bateson (1895). Volume III. Hexham-

shire Part I. By Allen B. Hinds (1896). Volume

IV. Hexhamshire: Part II. (Hexham, Whitley

Chapel, Allendale, and St. John Lee) and the Parish

of Chollerton, the Chapelry of Kirkheaton, the Parish

of Thockrington. By John Crawford Hodgson

(1897). Volume V. The Parish of Warkworth,

with the Chapelry of Chevington, the Parish of

Shilbottle, the Chapelry or extra-parochial place of

Brainshaugh. By John Crawford Hodgson (1899), 140

VIII.-1. The Great Company: being a History of the Hon-

ourable Company of Merchants Adventurers trading

into Hudson's Bay. By Beckles Willson.

Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899.

[And other Works.]

IX.-1. Exposition internationale universelle de 1900.

London:

161

Cata-

logue général officiel.

Euvres d'art. Exposition

centennale de l'art français.

Classes 7 à 10,

2. Exposition internationale universelle de 1900. Cata-

logue général officiel. Tome second.

Euvres d'art.

Group ii.

182

X.-1. The Danvers Jewels. By Mary Cholmondeley.

London: Bentley, 1887,

2. Sir Charles Danvers. By Mary Cholmondeley.

London: Bentley, 1889.

3. Diana Tempest. By Mary Cholmondeley. London:

Bentley, 1893.

[And other Works.]

XI. The South African War and its Critics.

XII.-1. An Essay on the Government of Dependencies. By

Sir George Cornewall Lewis, K.C.B. (originally

published in 1841). Edited with an introduction by

C. P. Lucas, of the Colonial Office. Clarendon Press,

Oxford: London, 1891.

2. A Bill to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia.

3. Publications of the Imperial Federation (Defence)

Committee. Westminster, 1900.

4. Speech of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.,

in the House of Commons, April 3, 1900

208

229

247

CONTENTS OF No. 394,

Page

ART. I.—1. Official Despatches from the Seat of War.

2. Press Military Correspondence from South Africa, . 271

II.-M. Edmond Rostand and the Literary Prospects of the

Drama.

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0

La Samaritaine. Évangile en trois tableaux, en vers.

Paris Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898.

Cyrano de Bergerac. Comédie Héroïque, en vers. Paris:

Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898.

Les Romanesques. Comédie en trois actes, en vers.

Paris Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1899.

:

La Princesse Lointaine. Pièce en quatre actes, en vers.

Paris Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1899.

L'Aiglon. En six actes, en vers. (Unpublished: 1900), 307

III.-1. A History of Italian Unity: being a Political History

of Italy from 1814 to 1871. By Bolton King,

M.A. 2 vols. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1899.

2. The Union of Italy, 1815-1895. By W. J. Still-

man. Cambridge University Press, 1898.

3. Marco Minghetti: La Convenzione di Settembre.

Bologna: Zanichelli, 1899, .

[And other works.]

IV. The Works of Lord Byron: a New, Revised, and

Enlarged Edition.-Letters and Journals.' Edited

by Rowland E. Prothero, M.A. 'Poetry.' Edited

by Ernest Hartley Coleridge, M.A. London: John

Murray, 1898,

V.-1. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz. By

John Gray M'Kendrick, M.D. London: T. Fisher

Unwin, 1899.

2. Die Lehre von dem Tonempfindungen als physiolo-

gische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Von

Hermann von Helmholtz. Fünfte Ausgabe.

Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn, 1896.

322

358

3. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis

for the Theory of Music. By Hermann L. F. von

Helmholtz. Second English Edition. By Alex. J.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1885, 382

[And other works.]