tions any especial attention. It has been said he was at heart a Royalist; but in spite of all the care taken never to allude to the past or to public matters, the writer every now and then seems to give indications that this was not the fact. On 27 January, 1699, he is writing to his daughter Elizabeth Cromwell, and, in alluding to a present of a turkey and chine that he had received, he says, in spight of the hangman that burnt the covenant." Is this an allusion to 30 January? In another letter to the same daughter, written in the August following, he says, "I pray God England's professours doe not loose the old serious Puretan spirret.”

with a little badinage. "Je vous embrasse rendered in English "much love to you"-is the ordinary conclusion of a letter to Flaubert. Addressing George Sand, he ends, "He [Flaubert] loves you dearly, and I, too, love you dearly, and I kiss your dear hand, and am for ever Your faithful Iv. Tourguéneff." The letters from Russia are few, since, so soon as he braved the rigours of his own climate, Tourguéneff seems to have been tortured with gout."I intend to make a Royal Feast on the Royal day They are principally from his Paris residence, from Bougival, or from Carlsbad, whither he often betook himself to drink the waters. An idea of the letters can scarcely be given without quotations, for which we have no space. The book, indeed, is one to be read, not criticized. To those interested in literature it may be warmly commended. The translation, issued under favourable conditions, is quite excellent.

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