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REVIEWS DE BOOKS.

-Ole Protestant Magazine for August. London :
Wertheim and Mackintosh.
'This zealous and well-directed periodical con-
tinues with unabated vigour to do battle in the
3rotestant cause. No instance is lost sight of by
its -vigilant conductors, in *ilia the errors, the
-cruelties, and the crimes of Popery can be laid bare
before the public eye. Such ceaseless scrutiny,
and such frequent exposures of the iniquities, must
'effect much in awakening the Protestant commu-
tity to a sense of their duty and their danger.

Tice Organon, or Logical Treatises, of Aristotle
Translated by 0. F. Owen, M.A. Vol. II
-London: G. -Bohn.

The volume now before us is the second and
concluding one, of Mr. Owen's very learned trans-
lation of Aristotle's logic. It is in all respects an
erudite and scholarly production_; the acute and
recondite mental formula of the metaphysician
I)eing faithfully rendered, wiule, by the aid of
copious notes, they are well illustrated and ex-
plained. The original work has been too long an
samowledged standard to require eulogium at
lour hands ; in the present instance, therefore, our
-remarks can apply only to the labours•nf the editor.
these latter evince patient and deep study—veryconsiderable mental resources—and no lack of logi-
cal acumen. To the metaphysical stadent, this
sedition of Aristotle's Logical Treatises•will be wel-
come, and, in an eminent degree, usefiiL

27te Universal Library, Parts 17 and 18, con-
taining Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, and
Life of Luther. London-: Ingram,
Cooke and Co.

higeneial ;lan, the Universal Library deserves
high commendation, proposing, as it noes, to
supply accurate reprints of the standard English
authors; and also English translations of the best
,drench and German works, together with speci-
miens of American writers of note. This edition
43f these works has now reached its eighteenth
Wart, and has redeemed, so far, the promises lteld
out
.at its commencement. The parts already
published embrace in a complete form, besides
ether favourite essays, poems, and treatises, the
• •tical works of Milton, the Lay of the Last
0 *nstrel, and the Lady of the Lake, by Scott,
Alison's Essay on Taste, a well-selected collection
la voyages and travels, including those of Stephens,
Anson, and Kcempfer, and now the two works
whose names stand at the head of this notice. The
rniversal Library is published in octavo, is hand-
zomely printed in double columns, is tastefully
embellished, and is issued at so cheap a rate as to
bring it readily within the purchasing means of all
Masses.

,271 e Flowers of History, collected by Matthew of
Westminster. _ Translated from the original, by

C. D. Yonge,

London : H. G. Bohn.

The quaintly written Chronicles of the renowned
Natthew of Westminster, published as part of the
antiquarian Library, in a handsome form and at
SO cheap a rate as to bring them within reach of
vurchase by, historical students of even limited
means, is a literary boon of no inconsiderable mag-
nitude. It is perfectly true indeed, that these
chronicles are so deeply tinctured with the mys-
'Lica prejudices of the time In which they were
written, as to be very unsafe guides to historical
truth, taken by themselves : nevertheless, they
icontain a reasonably fair catalogue of events, and
"oven the prejudices by which the narratives are
beset, and with which they are intermixed, consti-
tute so thoroughly a reflex of the Popish mind,
when untramelled by the fear of exposure, and
=awed by the certainty of opposition, that even
the absurdity of his averments becomes interest-
ing, and aids in the expiscation of truth ; while his
unbounded credulity, combined with the pre-
supposed approbation of his readers, is an edifying
instance of how far a man may impose upon him-
self while endeavouring to dissipate the scruples of
others. As might be expected, the erudite chroni-
cler is implicit in his reliance upon the infallibility
of Mother Church, and is eloquent, after his own
fashion, in enforcing the value of her miracles.
Some of our readers may be inclined to smile as
they read the following incident, which was found
available (at least, so says our chronicler) to the
temporal aggrandisement of the Church