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time when Denman was appointed Solicitor
General to the Queen he was forty years old,
| OF most commanding exterior and presence
and with a voice which in its magnificent
compass could fill the House of Lords until the
old roofrung with its powerful tones. If the
limits of this review would permit, it would
be keen pleasure TO recount how thorough
ly this great lawyer in honorable defense
Of his client put behind him all
hope Of preierment, not sparing the
King Oh the throne nor the Royal Duke
Of Clarence who afterwards became his SOW
ereign. 1t would be an equal pleasure to tell
how William the Fourth forgave the attack
upon the Duke of Clarence and honored him
self by appointing Denman Chief Justice of
England. But George lV. was not so for
giving, and for eight years refused him the
silk gown as Kings Counsel, an honor to
which his rank at the bar had long entitled
him. In 1919 Denman became a member of
Parliament. In 1922 he was chosen Common
Sereant and became judicial officer Of the
city of London, retaining the Office until 1881,
when he was made Attorney General In
1882 he was appointed Chief Justice.
Mr. Arnoud's first volume ends with Lord
Derman's appointment to this high Office.
We shall look forward with much antcira.
ted pleasure TO the Issuing of the second vol
ume. If the subject is as well handled as in
the first, the work win be a very grateful adj
dition to the biography of great judges.
POPULAR RESORTS. BY John b. Bachelor Bos-
ton: John B. Bachelor. For sale by Loring,
Short q Harmon.
This book, which purports to be volume
Of brief descriptions OF the principal summer
retreats in the United States and the routes
OF travel to them, seems to be collection of
hotel 'pufs'' of the most gushing descrip-
ton, combined with little dauby scenery
writing in which adjectives are used with an
appalling looseness. TO those who like such
reading the book can be safely recommended.
The volume is embellished with many good
wood cuts.
New ENGLAND; A Handbook fer Travellers, Bos-
ton; j. r.. Osgood 4 Co. For sale by Bailey 81
Noyes
From the well-known Boston publishing
house we have on the model cf the European
Handbooks OF Karl Baedeker, handbook of
New England for travellers. 1t will be found
the most useful volume Of the kind that has
yet been published. Pleasantly written, it
contains a mass of well dilested and ar
ranged information. The famous summer
resorts, seaside and mountain, in which
New England abounds, are described at
length, and several maps and plans aid q
proper comprehension of them. The oil
legends, connected with the places described,
are understandingly treated OF, and the book
is very complete and accurate
THE MIDDLE STATES: A Handbook Tor Travellers,
Boston; j. r. csgood & Co. For sale by Bailey
Il Noyes.
This volume is another Of those complete,
accurate and popular American Handbooks
which are issuing from the publishing house
OF Osgood & Co. 1t possesses the same
merits as the New England Handbook, and
is quite as worthy of attention as that model
guide.
THE RHINE. BY Victor Hugo. Boston: Estes Sc
Lauriat. For sale by Hall L. Davis.
good translation of Victor Hugo's charm
ing tour from Paris TO Mayence is something
to be desired. The translation by ID. NJ
Arid, under notice, is excellently well done,
and preserves as far as possible Hugo's
spasmodic sentences and barbaric opulence
style. But the translation is too literally
besprnkled with French phrases; so literally
indeed tnat some pages of it cease to be q
translation and become a maearonic. Anoth-
er fault brings itself TO the notice of tho
carping critc-a book that allows so much
latitude in italics should not grudge eellilla
when il is required.