2. A Residence among the Chinese; Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea. Being a Narrative of Scenes and Adventures during a Third Visit to China, from 1853 to 1856. Including Notices of many Natural Pro- ductions and Works of Art, the Culture of Silk, &c. With suggestions on the Present War. By Robert Fortune. With Illustrations. London. 1 vol. 8vo. 3. China: A General Description of that Empire and its Inhabitants, with the History of Foreign Intercourse down to the Events which produced the Dissolution of 1857. By Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., &c.; late Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong. A new edition, revised and enlarged. With Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 4. L'Empire Chinois: faisant suite à l'ouvrage intitulé Souvenirs d'un Voyage dans la Tartarie et le Thibet. Par M. Huc, Ancien Missionnaire Apostolique en Chine. Deuxième édition. 2 vols. 8vo. Paris. 1854 VI.-1. Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, collected in Manchester in 1857. 2. Handbook of the Gallery of British Paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition: being a Reprint of Critical Notices originally published in the Manchester Guar- 3. The Early Flemish Painters; Notices of their Lives and Works. By J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle. 4. What to observe at Manchester: A Walk round the Art Treasures' Exhibition, under the guidance of Dr. VII.--Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habitæ. A Joanne Keble, A.M., Poeticæ Publico Prælectore. Oxford. 1844 VIII-1. An Argument against immediately repealing the Laws which treat the Nuptial Bond as indissoluble. By the Rev. John Keble, M.A. London. 1857. 2. Considerations on Divorce a vinculo Matrimonii, in connexion with Holy Scripture. By a Barrister. Lon- 3. On Divorce. By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of Westminster. London. 1857. · 204 1.-1. CORNWALL, its Mines and Miners; with Sketches of 2. 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London, 1857. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.—1. On the State of Society in France before the Revolution of 1789, and on the Causes which led to that Event. By Alexis de Tocqueville, Member of the French Academy. Translated by Henry Reeve. London. 1856. Par 2. Souvenirs Contemporains d'Histoire et de Littérature. M. Villemain, Membre de l'Institut. Paris. 1855. 3. L'Angleterre au Dix-huitième Siècle. Etudes et Portraits pour servir à l'Histoire du Gouvernement Anglais depuis la fin du règne de Guillaume III. Par M. Charles de Rémusat, de l'Académie Française. Paris. 1856. 4. Histoire des Causes de la Grandeur de l'Angleterre, depuis les Origines jusqu'à la Paix de 1763. Par Charles Gouraud. Paris. 1856. 5. The Political Future of England. By the Comte de Montalembert. From the French. London. 1856. 6. Séance de l'Académie Française du 3 Avril, 1856. Discours de Réception de M. le Duc de Broglie. Réponse de M. Désiré Nisard, Directeur de l'Académie Française. Paris. 1856. 7. Séance de l'Académie Française du 5 Février, 1857. Discours de Réception de M. Biot. Réponse de M. Guizot, Directeur de l'Académie Française. Paris, 1857. 8. Histoire du Gouvernement Parlementaire en France. 18141848. Précédée d'une Introduction. Par M. Duvergier de Hauranne. Vols. I and II. Paris. 1857. 9. Du Régime Parlementaire en France: Essai de Politique contemporaine. Par M. Adolphe de Chambrun. Paris. 1857. IN incident recounted by Robert of Gloucester, and aptly enough connected with our own approaches to the present forms of our constitutional government, suggests a sort of picturesque parallel to the present position of certain French statesmen. The chronicler recounts that certain fugitive knights of the party then undermost, who did not approve the then state of things, drew aside into a certain castle, where, with their wives and children, they held themselves on the defence either to live or to die until they should see better times.' So far as the little knot of French Constitutionalists maintain a like Vol. 102.-No. 203. B front front to the flood of Absolutist reaction, we conceive them to resemble these fugitive bannerets. A like courage and a like philosophy are required, even in these carpet days, to retain a conspicuous position apart without assailing or succumbing to the dominant power. The retirement which is maintained with dignity and consistency, and whence the defeated cause is inoffensively vindicated, must obtain the respect even of adversaries; and History may hereafter point with approbation to this handful of choice spirits, faithful to the vanquished cause, dismayed by the blank prospect which has closed in upon their efforts, and yet unshaken in their devotion to prostrate freedom, void as completely of turbulence as of servility, divested now of all authority, yet still not unattended by reverence, and permitted by the power which has triumphed over them to record their implied protest against its supremacy, and to found on their cherished remembrances aspirations for better days. In a general sense, this spectacle possesses the moral attributes of the feudal incident to which we have compared it. But it has a further significance in its intellectual bearings. M. Guizot, in his recent speech on the introduction of M. Biot to the Institute, has recognised in this conduct an historic characteristic of his countrymen: France,' says he, has more than once seen her fortunes fail her in her aspirations towards a free Government. Sad, but not disheartened, she has sought and found, for a space, in the strength of her moral activity other sources of gratification and of glory. After the political check of the Fronde, the seventeenth century witnessed the full development of scientific research, and produced masterpieces of literature; and in our own times, when she issued from the revolutionary tempests which made all our liberties an object of suspicion to us, Philosophy, recovering her energy, has disengaged herself from material objects, and Literature has once more directed her aim to the more exalted objects which she had forgotten.' We entirely agree to this representation, for we can recall various other instances in which French philosophy has compensated itself for the accidents of public fortune. When the fickleness of the French people has at any time compromised the prospects of the State, most gifted minds have been less solicitous to check and counteract their oppressors and to meet the difficulties of the hour by practical efforts, than to turn aside and entrench themselves in some ideal construction as a refuge rather than as a resting-place for renewed action. They are more freely disposed than we should be in similar circumstances to take a serene view of their position and its contrasts; partly because they are more accustomed to vicissitudes, but more especially from |