"We have before us a trusty and ready guide to the events of the past thirty years, available equally for the statesman, the politician, the public writer, and the general reader.  If Mr. Irving’s object has been to bring before the reader all the most noteworthy occurrences which have happened since the beginning of Her Majesty’s reign, he may justly claim the credit of having done so most briefly, succinctly, and simply, and in such a manner, too, as to furnish him with the details necessary in each case to comprehend the event of which he is in search in an intelligent manner.  Reflection will serve to show the great value of such a work as this to the journalist and statesman, and indeed to every one who feels an interest in the progress of the age; and we may add that its value is considerably increased by the addition of that most important of all appendices, an accurate and instructive index.”—­Times.

Kingsley (Canon)
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ON THE ANCIEN REGIME as it Existed on the Continent before the French Revolution.  Three Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution.  By the Rev. C.  Kingsley, M.A., formerly Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge.  Crown 8vo. 6_s_.

These three lectures discuss severally (1) Caste, (2) Centralization, (3) The Explosive Forces by which the Revolution was superinduced.  The Preface deals at some length with certain political questions of the present day.

THE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON.  A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge.  By Rev. C.  Kingsley, M.A. 8vo. 12_s_.

Contents:—­Inaugural Lecture; The Forest Children; The Dying Empire; The Human Deluge; The Gothic Civilizer; Dietrich’s End; The Nemesis of the Goths; Paulus Diaconus; The Clergy and the Heathen; The Monk a Civilizer; The Lombard Laws; The Popes and the Lombards; The Strategy of Providence.

Latham
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BLACK AND WHITE:  a Journal of a Three Months’ Tour in the United States.  By Henry Latham, M.A., Barrister-at-Law. 8vo. 10_s_. 6_d_.

“The spirit in which Mr. Latham has written about our brethren in America is commendable in high degree.”—­Athenaeum.

Law
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THE ALPS OF HANNIBAL.  By William John Law, M.A., formerly Student of Christ Church, Oxford.  Two vols. 8vo. 21_s_.

“No one can read the work and not acquire a conviction that, in addition to a thorough grasp of a particular topic, its writer has at command a large store of reading and thought upon many cognate points of ancient history and geography.”—­Quarterly Review.

Liverpool
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THE LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF ROBERT BANKS, SECOND EARL OF LIVERPOOL, K.G.  Compiled from Original Family Documents by Charles Duke Yonge, Regius Professor of History and English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast; and Author of “The History of the British Navy,” “The History of France under the Bourbons,” etc.  Three vols. 8vo. 42_s_.