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At the end of Vol. XV. are “adjoined" the "Squire Papers," a series of thirty-five Letters (up to that time unpublished), printed by Carlyle in Fraser's Magazine of December, 1847, with a deal of "consider-me-well-ism," but later commented on by him as unimportant, because not affecting any material point in Cromwell's Life one way or the other, and deserving to be remitted to the limbo for all newly-discovered documents (which are not important) by "all persons who have serious truth to seek "for and no time for idle guesses and riddle-ma-rees of the Scriblerus and Nugatory"Antiquarian sort."

"Adjoined" to Vol. XVI. are a "List of the Long Parliament, the most remarka"ble that ever sat," and "Lists of the Eastern-Association Committees."

In Vol. XVIII. are given (pp. 175–294) the Letters and Papers of Cromwell not added to the Text.

The Index of Contents in each Volume is drawn analytically so as to give a "Sum"mary" of the Volume.

Vol. XIX. LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. (1850.) Index, 2 col.

pp. 417-421.

. The Titles will show the general purport of this Series of eight Pamphlets by the "Censor of the Age," who, in his character of social and political reformer, published these as a kind of supplement to his "Chartism."

I. The Present Time.

II. Model Prisons.

III. Downing Street.

IV. The New Downing Street.

V. Stump-Orator.

VI. Parliaments.

VII. Hudson's Statue [on a proposed Statue to Cromwell].

VIII. Jesuitism.

At the end of the Volume is a Summary of the Lectures, pp. 407-416.

Vol. XX. LIFE OF JOHN STERLING. (1851.) Index, 2 col. pp.

339-342.

... Sterling (1806–1844) was a poet and miscellaneous writer, and for eight months acted in a ministerial capacity as Curate of Hurstmonceaux in Sussex. He had many literary friends, including Archdeacon Hare, Monckton Milnes, Coleridge, and Carlyle. He wrote one or two Novels, besides "The Election, a mock-heroic Poem in Seven Books," in 1841, and "Strafford," a Tragedy, in 1843, which fell dead-born. The Volume closes with a Summary (pp. 331-338).

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Vols. XXI.-XXX. HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great. 10 vols. (1858-65.) List of Portraits and Maps, Vol. XXX. p. 309. Index to this work, 2 col. Vol. XXX. pp. 311–392.

... The Work has a considerable number of Portraits and Maps scattered through the Volumes. The "Contents" in each Volume are so written as to form a short Sum

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mary of the Work and are collected together (Vol. XXX. pp. 301–308) under the title of "General Contents."

At the end of Vol. XXX., pp. 273–298, is a Translation of " A Day with Friedrich," describing a visit, by an Officer, in official attendance on the King, to some mud Colonies in the neighbourhood of Potsdam, when the King was sixty seven years of age, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, and sixteen years after the Seven Years' War. It is a curious Chapter, "very dry and very amusing," on which Carlyle comments: "And "so ends the Day with Friedrich the Great: very flat, but I daresay very true: a 66 Daguerreotype of one of his Days."

The view taken by Carlyle is, that though not a very good King, he must be regarded by his conduct as a whole, and that he is practically entitled to the high esteem in which his people held him, styling him Friedrich the Great.

Friedrich II. (1712-1786) was a voluminous Author. In 1846-57 an Edition de Luxe of his works was issued under Royal Authority by the Berlin Academy. The Edition is in 30 volumes, of which 6 contain verse" which no one can read now-a“days,” 7 are historical, 2 philosophical, and 3 military, the remaining 12 being made up of Correspondence.

Vols. XXXI.-XXXIII.

TRANSLATIONS FROM

THE GERMAN.

Uniform with his Collected Works.

XXXI. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Books I.-VI. (1824.) Carlyle executed this Translation in 1824, "under questionable aus"pices," but did not make any material changes in the Edition of 1839, which he says he "could not make a good translation: and so it may remain." XXXII. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Books VII. and VIII.

Wilhelm Meister's Travels: or The Renunciants. A Novel.

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It was

... This was taken from the Book called "German Romance." translated two years after the “ Apprenticeship,” and “this Translation stands, "practically, as first published."

XXXIII. Musaus: "Dumb Love": "Libussa": and " Melechsala."

Tieck: "The Fair-haired Eckbert": "The Trusty Eckart": "The Runen-
"berg": "The Elves"; "The Goblet."

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Richter: "Schmelzle's Journey to Flætz” and “Life of Quintus Fixlein.”

Vol. XXXIV. GENERAL INDEX to the Library Edition in Thirty Volumes [that is, exclusive of the three Volumes of Translations from the German].

•.• It is printed in double columns and consists of 172 pp.

Carlyle, Thomas.-CORRESPONDENCE with Emerson. See Norton, Charles Eliot.

Carlyle, Thomas.-REMINISCENCES.

Edited by James Anthony

[374] Froude. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1881.

8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt.

... These are a series of six Reminiscences published with Carlyle's consent, "but "without his supervision." They relate to

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Carnegie, Andrew.-AMERICAN, AN, Four in Hand In Britain. [375] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1883. 8vo. Cloth. ... A Record of a drive from Brighton to Inverness between June 17 and August 3, 1881. The total distance was 831 miles. They made 32 stoppages at various towns and places of interest, sometimes spending only one night, sometimes two or three, at a place of rare temptation. The longest distance "tooled" in one day only reached 44 miles and on another they only covered 12. This was a right true method to see and enjoy the country, and the author kindly wishes that "all his readers may live to see "their 'ships come home' and then enjoy a similar excursion for themselves."

Mr. Carnegie was born at Dunfermline (sixteen miles from Edinburgh) and a great demonstration was made when the "Gay Charioteers" entered the place of his birth, which his mother, with her sons, had left in poverty, for the New World, thirty years previously. Mr. Carnegie had in 1877 built and presented to the Town the "Carnegie "Public Baths," and the alarm experienced by several of the party from the anticipation of various expected public speeches is amusingly told. On this happy occasion Mr. Carnegie's mother, who now "returned in a carriage" to the scene of her early married life, laid the Memorial Stone of the Free Library.

Caro, E.-SAND GEORGE, MADAME DUDEVANT. See Ecrivains Français.

Carrillo, Laso de Guzman, Don Alonso.-EPITOME del Origen y [376] descendencia de de los Carrillos. Desde que vinieron a

España, y desde que tomaron este Apellido. Lisboa: Antonio Alvarez. 1639. Small 4to. Calf extra, edges gilt.

... The Collation of the book is Title and Coat of Arms (fos. I. II.), verso of each blank: Licenses, Sonnets, Preface, and Index (fos. III. to XIV.): Errata (1 folio, verso blank): Text (fos. 1.-108): Carta de Doña Francisca Maria Carrillo (4 folios, signature): Memorial and Manifesto (4 folios, signature ?).

This was purchased at Earl Crawford's Sale in June, 1887.

Carruthers, Robert.-LIFE of Montgomery, James. See British Poets.

Cars, A. des.-See Des Cars.

Carter, Mrs. Susan N.-DRAWING in Black and White. See Putnam's Art Hand-Books.

Cary, Alice (1820-1871).—BALLADS, Lyrics, and Hymns (with [377] Portrait). Popular Edition. New York: Hurd and Houghton. 1874. 12mo. Cloth. 16 Illust. a. c.

... Alice Cary first wrote in the "National Era" under the title of Patty Lee. Cary, Alice.—LATER POEMS. See Ames, Mary Clemmer. Cary, Phoebe.-LATER POEMS. See Ames, Mary Clemmer.

Cary, Phoebe (1824-1871).—POEMS of Faith, Hope, and Love [378] (with Portrait). New York: Hurd and Houghton. 1875. Cloth.

12mo.

Casas, Bartholomæus Las.-See Las Casas.

Casey, Brig.-Gen. Silas.-INFANTRY TACTICS, for the instruction, [379] exercise, and manœuvres of the Soldier, a Company, Line of Skirmishers, Battalion, Brigade, or Corps D'Armée. New York: D. Van Nostrand. 1862. 3 vols. 18mo. Half morocco.

... Each Volume has a considerable number of Plans on folded Plates and at the end a Table of Contents which serves in each Volume as an Index.

Vol. I. covers "Schools of the Soldier and Company" and "Instructions for Skir"mishers and Music." There are 32 Plates and 39 pages of "Calls" on Drum and Bugle.

Vol. II. relates to the "School of the Battalion" and has 36 Plates.

Vol. III. relates to the "Evolutions of a Brigade and Corps d'Armée” and has 29 illustrative Plates.

Cassell.-OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. See Grant, James.
Cassell & Co.-HISTORICAL COSTUMES. See Anonymous.
Castel, Comte Horace De Viel.-See De Viel Castel.

Castelar, Emilio.-OLD ROME AND NEW ITALY (Recuerdos de
[380] Italia). Translated by Mrs. Arthur Arnold. New York:
Harper & Brothers. 1873.
12mo. Half red morocco,

top edges gilt.

... A series of sketches of Italy, thrown together without any order and without following any consecutive itinerary. Each sketch was jotted down just as and when a scene or a building "created the thought of Italy, great in her past," which the writer has here endeavored to record.

Castellani, Augusto.-GEMS: Notes and Extracts. Translated [381] from the Italian by Mrs. John Brogden. London: Bell & Daldy. 1871. 12mo. Cloth, ornamented.

... In the Italian work the alphabetical order was adopted "as the most simple, "convenient, and useful," but this was not followed in the Translation, "the initial "letters of some of the gems being different in English." The "Contents" are arranged on the same non-alphabetical want of system. "Ivory" is included amongst the "A's" and "Sapphire" placed after " Vermilion," while " Cat's-eye" is nestled between the letters "N" and "O.”

Catlin, George (circa 1800-1872).—[North American Indians.] [382] ILLUSTRATIONS of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing: With 360 engravings from the Author's original paintings. Ninth Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1857. 2 vols. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt.

...The author commenced his visit among the tribes of North American Indians in 1832, before the Tours of Washington Irving and others were published. He visited 48 different tribes speaking nearly as many different languages and containing in all 400,000 souls. He brought back 310 portraits in oil and 200 other paintings in oil exhibiting views of their games and general life, containing in all 3000 full-length figures. These are preserved in the National Museum, Washington. Catlin states that in 30 tribes the languages were absolutely variant, and that in the remaining 18 they were dialects from four or five distinct roots.

It was a theory of Catlin's (see Appendix to Vol. II.) that the Mandan tribe were the descendants of the Welsh colony which sailed in the early part of the 14th century from Wales, under the direction of Prince Madoc, in ten ships. He located them on the Missouri and gave his reasons for conjecturing that his deductions were correct. Southey seems to have thought the same at one time, but subsequently to have treated the idea as disproved.

Catlin took a number of Indians and many of their curiosities to Europe, and attracted much attention by his interesting exhibitions at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, in 1841, and subsequently at the principal Mechanic Institutes in the suburbs and outskirts of the Metropolis.

So set was Catlin from his earliest years on making the tour of the Tribes that he left a wife and aged parents to accomplish the desire of his life.

Cato, Dionysius.-CATHO cũ glosa | et moralisatõe | [s. 1., s. n., [383] n. d.]. 8vo. Russia, edges gilt.

This copy has no title-page except as above-nor any imprint. It consists of Title and 51 folios, and closes with the words: " Expliciut glosule cathonis. & sic "declinat. explicit expliciunt, non plus inuenitur. & est verbum defectiuum."

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