. Review of reviews and world's work. ther celebrated churchmen ;of Green, Lecky, and Gardiner among the historians;and George Eliots name can be found on forty differentpages. An appreciation of Lord Acton, by Mr. HerbertPaul, who edits the letters, prefaces the text. The publication of the New Letters of Thomas Car-lyle (Lane) will be of interest to those people onlywho are either closestudents or enthusi-asts of the great es-sayist. The selectionis made from an enor-mous number of let-ters addressed inmeat part to hismother, brother, andsister from 1836 contain almostnothing of int
. Review of reviews and world's work. ther celebrated churchmen ;of Green, Lecky, and Gardiner among the historians;and George Eliots name can be found on forty differentpages. An appreciation of Lord Acton, by Mr. HerbertPaul, who edits the letters, prefaces the text. The publication of the New Letters of Thomas Car-lyle (Lane) will be of interest to those people onlywho are either closestudents or enthusi-asts of the great es-sayist. The selectionis made from an enor-mous number of let-ters addressed inmeat part to hismother, brother, andsister from 1836 contain almostnothing of interest toone outside the familycircle, as they chieflyrecotint only hishopes, trepidations,and illnesses. Thoseaddressed to Dr. John Sterling, Edward Fitzgerald and a few others are notso personal in tone, but give so few opinions on sub-jects of general interest as to make them hardly worthour while to read. The New Letters will be of value,however, to close students of Carlyles style and tothose seeking intimate details of his THOMAS CARLYLE. HISTORICAL monumental history of the world, in twenty-fivevolumes, as told by the greatest historians, has beencompiled and edited by Dr. Henry Smith Williams,and issued by the Outlook Company. It is entitled The Historians History of the World : A compre-hensive narrative of the rise and development of nationsas recorded by over two thousand of the great writersof all ages. The volumes are handsomely bound andillustrated, and appear to be exhaustive in every par-ticular. The first volume comprises the Prolegomenaand the histories of Egypt and Mesopotamia. The bulkof the work seems to be made up of direct quotationsfrom authorities, which, the editors assure us, are citedwith scrupulous exactness. These are handled, how-ever, in such a clever and novel method that the casualreader would scarcely know that the whole was not thework of a single writer. An illustration of the scopeand authenticity of the work may be gained fro
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