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Recent Qualifications.

TIE LIFE WORKS OF GOETHE: with sketohes Of his
age and contemporaries from published and nnpub-
)ished sources By G. IL. Lewis. An tWo volumes
Boston Ticknor 3 Fields.
Prominent among the inteleots of the wosld-amons
the earnest and sincere thinkers and diRcoverera VINO
have worked through less gesolutey and noby WIN gu
object in view and practical purpose to stmuase 1he
in their labors the Of Goethe must slwsSs sanu
He has been compared to many but successfully TO
He was his own best parallel and only type Eaaai y
Shakespeare in many things he vas
in others Subtle as Dsscartes philosophy
covered d ground Of which theirs had no knoWleose
Broad and manful old Ben Johnson at some times ne
was as gentle as Keatg tender as Lamb at Others
BE vas one Of those strange many sided MINDS which
sometimes but rarely have birth which astonh all but
are comprehended by few. The study q such men 70
minds and lives is Of those pleasures winch graty
oil who are fond of following out and sracing up to its
cause that in which they Interested Ar Lewis is
yery evidently Of this order me WORK of editing the
life Of Goethe has been him pleasure. He has sought
after the mnutest matters pertaining to the subject and
with such skin patience and intelligence as deserved the
reWard thew have received Those who, having some
snowedre Of Goetheand his works. wish an intimate and
more familiar comprehension of hia life and genius will be
greatly pleased to obtain and peruse this work. which
supplies what was wanting in its predecessors.
The edition Of which have received copy hand
somey printed and very great honor to the house by
whom it Is Issued. at
The History ENGLAND. From the accession of James
ri. By Thomas Babiugton Macaulay Volumes II and
III. New York Harper g. Brothers.
We have received from the publishers another copy
Macaulay's History Of Epgandhe great work and moot
important publication Of the age embracing the period Of
time from the beginning Of the reign Of William and
Mary to the eliminating period of the reign of William
the Third It is very handsomely printed and uniform
with the two volumes issued by the same house
years since. e- tis ~" '&
MEN AND WOMEN. By Robert Browning. Boston: Tick
and Fields.
Browning of the marked minds one of the earnest
aud honest writer's of modern England has given the
world another volume of poetry Of very excel
lence; come stanzas being continent of much strong
thought, well uttered; others being weak, washy and
neryeess In the lesser poems there sometimes lines
curiousy embodyng quaint thought to astonsh the
reader and excite expectation to melt in the
worddelugsof the labored efforts The trouble of
the is that in its aims towards profundity it be-
obscure and in its efforts towards ghness silly.
There passages and poems which well repay pc
rusa and maintain the reputation that Browning
himself in years past; which will heghten bis repu-
tation, but also, much twate and twadde, as if the
Maud of Tennyson and the Hiawaths of Longfellow
must be initiated by all other writers Of yerse-caled
poets
The book is beautifully printed and bound uniform
with the other political works issued by the house.
We are under obligations to j. @. Morgan Exchange
Place. adjoining the Post Office copies Of the above
| mentioned works.