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with Mr. Addington Symonds. In reading these sketches and studies, as they are now for the first time collected together, we can trace the thread of the Neo-Classic spirit which runs through them all more distinctly than we could when they appeared, sporadically, in the periodical literature of the day. We now see, perhaps more clearly than before, the reason why, with all his critical knowledge of the subject, Mr. Symonds had yet seemed to be so strangely wanting in warmth when treating of Dante. It is the intense medievalism of the Commedia, we believe, with which the author of the sketches entitled "Antinous" and "Lucretius" could never be in sympathy. With the humanism of Petrarch, or Politian, with the ironic smile of Berni or Ariosto, Mr. Symonds is at once at home. He would greet Boiardo and Ariosto's travesty of the chivalrous epic with a "Sic Genius!" He would analyze with delight every detail of that truly beautiful Renaissance façade of the Certosa at Pavia, while the "dim, religious light" of the interior of Milan Cathedral would in all probability oppress him with a sense of medieval austerity. There are many touches in Mr. Symonds's book which remind us of the doctrine underlying the equally exuberant language of Mr. Pater's Studies in the Renaissance. That doctrine seems to be summed up in these words: "Get all the sensations you can out of this life, and enjoy them to the full, for beyond the grave there is nothing." It is natural that a writer of this school of thought should take delight in "tender half-tones of violet and russet paling into greys and yellows," and that he should fairly revel in the delicate beauty of the Italian sunset hour, the hour after " Ave Maria." It is natural that to Mr. Symonds, spending Christmas in Rome, St. Peter's and St. John Lateran should be but the "dust of decaying shrines." It would have been more true, we think, to the under-tone of his Sketches and Studies had they ended on the Monte Generoso, where he wonders "how this phantom show of mystery and beauty will pass away from us-how soon-and we be where, see what, use our sensibilities on aught or nought?" Scotter and the Neighbourhood. By Edward Peacock, F.S.A. THIS little tract of thirty-six pages, printed at Hertford by Stephen Austin & Sons, is a lecture delivered in the Scotter Reading Room in 1878, and published by the members of the local Reading Room and Lending Library Society. Of course everybody knows that whatever Mr. Peacock does, he does well; but probably no other living man could have produced such a charming account of one of the average agricultural parishes of Lincolnshire. Mr. Peacock has evidently thrown his heart into the work, and his lecture, brief as it is, has been elevated by his remarkable 'know. ledge and skill into a narrative of permanent historical importance.

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Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works, by C. E. Clement and L. Hutton (Trübner & Co.), promises to be an exceedingly useful work of reference, whose utility to themselves, moreover, its many possessors might considerably enhance by having it interleaved and "posting up" to the day.-We have received Dreams of my Solitude on the Mysteries of the Heavens, by J. Prusol (Reeves & Turner); An Introduction to the Study of Heat, by J. Hamblin Smith, sixth edition (Rivingtons); also The Skin and its Troubles, "Health Primers (D. Bogue). Dr. Mackay's very useful Facts and Dates (Blackwood & Sons) has reached a third edition.

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