_The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France_, by Alphonse de Lamartine. Volume the Second.--The brilliant and eloquent narrative contained in this volume includes the period between Napoleon's departure from Fontainebleau and his abdication. In the course of this history we are presented with scene after scene which dazzle us with all the gorgeous colouring of a panorama; but which, when we come to look into their details, are found to be almost as obscure and indefinite as the objects in those attractive works of art to which we have likened them. The work has all the charms of a romance; but we fear purchases this reputation by sacrificing the more sober requirements of a history.
_Lectures and Addresses in Aid of Popular Education_, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle.--It would be difficult to find a more faithful or a more gratifying type of the present age than this new part of _The Traveller's Library_, in which we see one of England's "belted earls," and one of the most amiable and accomplished men of his time, recording the experiences of his travels; and inviting to join him in the delights which he has gathered from literary pursuits,--not a crowd of titled listeners, but "a band of the hard-handed working men" fresh from the anvil and the loom.
_Were Heretics ever burned at Rome? A Report of the Proceedings of the Roman Inquisition against Fulgentio Manfredi, taken from the Original Manuscript brought from Italy by a French Officer, and edited, with a parallel English Version, and Notes_, by the Rev. Richard Gibbings, M.A.--The _Dublin Review_ for June 1850 having boldly asserted as a fact, that "the Roman Inquisition--that is to say, the tribunal which was immediately subject to the control and direction of the Popes themselves, in their own city, has never been known to order the execution of capital punishment"--the Rev. Richard Gibbings has published, in contradiction of such assertion, this important document, in the history of Father Fulgentio, who was hanged and burned in the _Campo di Fiore_.
SCOTT'S CONTINUATION OF MILNER'S CHURCH HISTORY. Vol. II. Part II. 8vo.
WINKELMAN'S REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING OF THE GREEKS, translated by FUSELI. London, 1765. 8vo.
