The reverence of the papal Romans for their treasures of either classic or Christian art is well illustrated by Retzsch’s outline, in which a lovely statue of Apollo, broken and half buried, defiled by dogs and swine, serves as a seat for a loutish herd, who tries to copy a miserable modern Virgin and Child from a wayside shrine.  Such a temper of mind in an intelligent, high-principled Englishman can only arise from a moral bias which distorts every view; but the discussion of these causes and effects would be out of place here, and we only smile in passing at the charge of “excessive cruelty” in the suppression of the monastery of San Vivaldo.  Mr. Hare’s treatment of the legitimate topics of his book deserves all admiration and praise.  His style is simple, pleasant and picturesque; in future editions a few careless tricks should be corrected, such as the use of from, with hence, thence, whence, and a muddled sentence here and there, of which a very slight instance occurs in the pretty extract about Lake Thrasymene:  there is a most confusing one about a girl who refused to kiss the emperor Otho, which reads as if she would not kiss her own father.  It would be almost a pity to spoil a laugh by particularizing whether a tree or nut is meant in the story of “S.  Vivaldo, who became a hermit and lived in a hollow chestnut, in which he was found dead in 1300.”

Books Received.

The Little, or A, B, C, Book of German; that is, High School Primer; Child’s Story Book and Dictionary.  By Professor C.C.  Schaeffer.  Philadelphia:  Charles Brothers & Co.

Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies.  By Major Henry M. Robert, U.S.A.  Chicago:  S.C.  Griggs & Co.

Cabin and Plantation Songs, as sung by the Hampton Students.  Arranged by
Thomas P. Fenner.  New York:  G.P.  Putnam’s Sons.

The Spectator. (Selected Papers.) By Addison and Steele.  Edited by John
Habberton.  New York:  G.P.  Putnam’s Sons.

Characteristics from the Writings of J.H.  Newman.  By Wm. Samuel Lilly. 
New York:  D. and J. Sadlier & Co.

Brief Biographies.  Vol.  III.  French Political Leaders.  By Edward King. 
New York:  G.P.  Putnam’s Sons.

The Life of William, Earl of Shelburne.  Vol.  II.  By Lord Edmond
Fitzmaurice.  New York:  MacMillan & Co.

Jonathan:  A Novel.  By C.C.  Fraser-Tytler. (Leisure-Hour Series.) New
York:  Henry Holt & Co.

Faith and Modern Thought.  By Ransom B. Welch, D.D., LL.D.  New York:  G.P. 
Putnam’s Sons.

Fetich in Theology; or, Doctrinalism Twin to Ritualism.  By John Miller. 
New York:  Dodd & Mead.

The American Kennel and Sporting Field.  By Arnold Burges.  New York:  J.B. 
Ford & Co.

On Dangerous Ground.  By Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore.  Philadelphia:  Porter &
Coates.

Filth-Diseases, and their Prevention.  By John Simon, M.D.  Boston:  James
Campbell.