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276 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Books Of The Month.
what they are attacking , and to what extent these two systems of thought combine .
A curious periodical has come under our notice in the Bauer etc Amuserau Cymru" " The Banner and Times of Wales" a " weekly
family newspaper" published in Denbigh , and whic , h is said to have a considerable circulation in North and South Wales , and
elsewhere where " Welshmen congregate . There is a Welsh population in Liverpool of about 70000 ; in Londonof 40000 in
Manchesterof 27000 and it is , estimated that there , are , in ; the Principality , from , 700 ; to 800000 whose reading is almost
exclusively confined to the , productions , of , the Welsh Press , from which are issued regularly between twenty and thirty monthlies and
quarterlies , in the Welsh language . This singular statement has almost induced us to consider whether we ought not to set up a Welsh
Department ! Professor Curry ' s learned work on the " Manuscript Materials of
Ancient Irish History , " is substantially the same as a series of _' lectures delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland ; but to
these have been added very large appendices , containing many interesting specimens of these ancient documentswith translations
besides fae-similes equally curious . While the , taste for research , into the early ages of Europe is increasing among our literary
people , it is curious to see such a substantial relic of the past asa Welsh newspaper printed in the language of King Arthur and
the Knights of the Round Table . A daily paper in the French language , price one penny , is about
to be published in London , entitled the _Independence Nationale , which promises fall intelligence in politicsreliionindustry
commerce , art , science , literature , and theatres , . g , , In the biographical department of literature we have this month
Mr . Walter Thornbury ' s long-promised life of Turner . The work is founded on letters and papers furnished by the friends and
fellowacademicians of the great painter . Also a memoir of Professor Wilson—Christopher North ;—compiled from family paperswith
a selection , from his correspondence by his daughter , Mrs . Gordon , ; a work which will contain interesting glimpses of literary life in
Edinburgh in the early days of Blackwood . Likewise " The Life of Mrs . Cameron" partly an autobiographyand partly from her
, , private journal ; also , reminiscences of the life , with some of the lettersof Her Royal Highness Iielene Louiselate Duchess of "
Orleans , , by Dr . Gothhilf Pleinrich von Schubert . , A second edition is out of the autobiography of Madame Piozzti : and in French ,.
La Vie de Ice Heine Anne de Bretagne , Femme des Hois de France Charles VIII . et Louis XII , . suivres de Lettres inedites et de Docu _^
_Ttxents Originaux . The Memoirs , Letters and Remains of Alexis de * Tocqueville , the great political economist , have been translated from _,
the French , and published in two volumes by Macmillan . Many
276 Notices Of Books.
276 _NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/60/
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