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Hungary and its Revolutions fro
Period to the Nineteenth Cent
Memoir of Louis Kosffuth. By E. 0. S
don : Henry G. Bohn.

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The present volume of Bohn's Standard Library
is devoted ostensibly to a history of the oligarchical
monarchial republic of Hungary, but in reality it
comprises little beyond a laudatory memoir of the
much-debated Polish hero Kossuth. The first
hundred and fifty-eight pages are devoted to an
outline of Hungarian history, in which the leading
events are lanced at, and summarily dismissed ;
the remaining three hundred and eighty-seven
pages of which the book consists, being exclusively
occupied with the memoir of M. Kossuth. After
concluding the brief historical compendium, the
author commences the more serious portion of his
labours by giving a condensed statistical summary
of the physical and political condition of Hungary
at the commencement of the present century, in
which he dwells with much solicitude upon the
natural resources and native riches of the country.
He next proceeds with the more immediate object
of his work, the politico-biographical narrative of
the exploits of his hero. The author notes, with
much fondness, the instances of opening talent and
the displays of spontaneous generosity unfolded in
the boyhood and early youth of him, the office of
whose panegyrical biographer he has assumed to
himself. As he passes to the more stirring events
which have afforded action to the career of Kos-
suth, and chequered the fortunes of his country-
men, while they have plunged his country in the
despair of political prostration and despotic thral-
dom, the author waxes eloquent as well as ener-
getic : he then evinces in a favourable form the
capabilities of literary composition with which he
is endowed, and puts forth a strength which will
prove highly attractive to many readers. The
volume is suited to the hour, and possesses nume-
rous claims on popular sympathy.

Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg.
The August number of this periodical continues,
and even extends, its claims to public support.
The opening paper is on " Prospective Periodical
Literature, ' by George Gilfdlan, in which a com-
prehensive view of the subject is taken ; the re-
sults of which are laid before the reader with a
vividness which secures conviction, although some
of the positions assumed seem futile and Quixotic.
In this paper Master George does service to the
majesty of periodical literature, by denouncing, in
good set terms," the meanness of that periodical
literature, and he might have added of any other,
which, from mercenary motives, is led to disguise
or disown its nationality. " Continental Jottmgs"
are picquant and racy. The number contains also
a paper entitled " Art and Artists : The Royal
Academy and the Exhibitors, in which the lofty
qAues a
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capabilities and noble privileges of the academy
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the latent man begin to mingle, arele with the wilfulness and hole, the number
literature, number is a spirited one, and creditable
indheretiona of the mere boy, which more perilou.* than tQ pe '

re requires, but of a kooddeal
to fare sumptuously every day.
f the practical training schools in
geologist and essayist contrived
...via amount of that self-reliance
au ?pull, In ...dependent speculation which form
ich conspicuous characteristics of the man. The
abits engendered by such a course of life as was
) be expected rendered him, as he himself says,
a wild and insubordinate boy, and the only school
which I could properly be taught was that
.orld-wide school which awaited me, in which Toil
nd Hardship are the severe but noble teachers."
The following remarks as to the course of training
suited to the period of adolescence are in all respects
judicious, and should be deeply pondered by
Parents and all who have the care of youth at
what, borrowing a term from our author's favourit(
science, may be denominated

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