VI-1. Gli Ordini di Cavalcare. Del Federigo Grisone. 2. The Foure Chiefyst Offices belongyng to Horseman- shippe. By Thomas Blundevile. London, 1565. VII. 1. Ousama ibn Mounkidh, un Emir Syrien au premier siècle des Croisades (1095-1188). Par Hartwig Derenbourg. Avec le texte arabe de l'Auto- biographie d'Ousama, publié d'après le manuscrit de l'Escurial. Three Vols. Paris, 1886-1893. 2. Siasset Nameh: Traité de Gouvernement. Composé pour le Sultan Melik Shah par le Vizir Nizam oul- And other Works. VIII.-1. Reports of Sir P. Macdougall's Committee.' C 493, Xxxvii. 386. 1872; C 588, xiv. 69; C 712, xviii. 1. 3. Reports, &c., on Army Organization. C 2792. 1881. 188 IX.-The Life of Sir Henry Halford, Bart., G.C.H., M.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal College of Physicians; Physician to George III., George IV., William IV., and to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. By William Munk, M.D., Fellow and late Vice-President of the Royal College of Physicians in London. London, 1895 X.-1. Index Kewensis. Oxford, 1893-1895. 2. The Popular Names of British Plants. By R. C. A. Prior, M.D. Second Edition. London, 1870- And other Works. XI.-1. Report of Select Committee on Irish Industries. 2. Report of Royal Commissioners on Technical Educa- 212 I.-1. The Life and Letters of George John Romanes. Written and edited by his Wife. London, 1895. 2. Christian Prayer and General Laws, being the And other Works. II.—1. Julian the Apostate and The Duke of Mercia. By the late Sir Aubrey de Vere. London, 1858. 2. Mary Tudor. An Historical Drama. In Two Parts. New Edition. By the late Sir Aubrey de Vere. And other Works. And many others. V.-1. La Crise actuelle: Le Canada République ou Colonie. Par Joseph Royal, ex-Lieut.-Gouverneur des Terri- toires du Nord-Ouest. Montreal, 1894. 2. L'Avenir du Canada: Réponse à M. Royal. ‘La Vérité,' March 17, 24, 31, and April 14, 1894. 3. Code of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec. Montreal, 1889 And other Works. - 397 VI.-1. The Birds of Devon. By W. S. M. D'Urban, F.L.S., &c., and the Rev. Murray A. Mather, M.A., 2. The Birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. By VIII.-1. Vetus Testamentum Græcum cum variis lectionibus. Edidit R. Holmes; continuavit J. Parsons. Oxford, 2. Origenis Hexaplorum quæ supersunt . . concin- navit, emendavit, et multis partibus auxit Fridericus 3. Librorum Veteris Testamenti... pars prior. Ed. And other Works. IX.-1. On a new Kind of Rays. By Dr. W. C. Röntgen. Translated by Arthur Stanton. ('Nature,' Jan. 23, 2. Röntgen's Photography of the Invisible. By A. A. And other Works. X.-The Queen's Prime Ministers. Nine Vols. London, XI.—1. Die Begründung des deutschen Reiches. Von Dr. H. Sybel. Seven Vols. München and Leipzig, 1895. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-1. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A., F.R.S., Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty. Transcribed from the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, by the Rev. Mynors Bright, M.A., late Fellow and President of the College. With Lord Braybrooke's Notes. Edited, with Additions, by Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. Vols. 1-6. London, 1893-1895. 2. Samuel Pepys and the World he lived in. By Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. London, 1880. 3. Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S. Edited from the original MSS. at Wotton by William Bray, F.A.S. A New Edition, in Four Volumes. Corrected, revised, and enlarged. London, 1889. T is not surprising that the elder D'Israeli should have 6 6 Literature.' Such a subject was peculiarly fitted to call into play the varied knowledge and to exercise the critical judgment of this most entertaining and searching writer'; and nowhere are the charms of autobiography, its historical value and its psychological interest, more effectively displayed than in the pages of that remarkable miscellany. The whole field of personal memoirs up to the times of the author is explored, and even those who have given most attention to this branch of literature can hardly fail to find here fresh illustrations of its philosophical attractions, as well as references to unsuspected sources of information. The first series of the 'Curiosities,' begun in 1791, was not completed until 1817. The learned compiler may then well have supposed that this subject, if not exhausted, had at any rate been treated after a comprehensive survey of its most striking features. If so, he was promptly Vol. 183.-No. 365. disillusioned. B disillusioned. Within the next few years, two diaries were published, each of which was destined to take a leading and a lasting place among the works which describe for us the social life and habits of bygone ages. The manuscripts of both diaries were drawn, after more than a century had elapsed since they were written, from the dusty obscurity of libraries. There the one had lain entirely unnoticed, while the other was only known and valued by a private and limited circle. Both now engaged the close attention of accomplished editors, and enlisted, on their appearance, the critical services of the ablest reviewers of the age. In the literary world they at once attracted notice, and among general readers rapidly gained a popularity which every year has steadily increased. Thus it is that while the works of the royal and noble authors, the historians, divines, savants, courtiers, and politicians mentioned by D'Israeli-even those of that age of diaries,' as he justly calls it, the seventeenth century-repose for the most part in dignified neglect upon the shelves of public libraries, or are sought from the booksellers to enrich the private collections of the curious, those of the gay and garrulous Pepys and his most worthy' friend John Evelyn have passed into successive editions, adapted not only for the wealthiest purchasers and most discriminating students, but also for those who can only possess themselves of valuable works by the aid of popular impressions. Half-a-crown or less spent at a railway bookstall or stationer's shop will now procure the Memoirs of either, exhaustively indexed, and elucidated with the annotations of their original editors. The complete Kalendarium' of Evelyn can be obtained for a shilling, while Pepys' more diverting, if not more interesting, diary is to be had in separate parts for an even smaller sum. Diminutive booklets of Gleanings' and 'Peeps into Pepys' likewise attest his established popularity; while a companion to the diary, named at the head of this article, has also appeared, which by its light and lively style, and its author's easy mastery of his materials, is calculated to attract yet another generation of readers to the study of the fascinating pages of the vivacious Samuel Pepys, and to kindle a desire for an extended acquaintance with the world he lived in.' The circumstances in which the two diaries were first introduced into public notice were favourable to their success. 'After much solicitation from many persons,' Lady Evelyn, widow of the diarist's great grandson, consented to the publication of the two MS. volumes which had been preserved since the writer's death in the Library at Wotton, where, it is said, they had |