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| MEhoIRs OF Ny EXILE By Louis Kossuth Trans
lated nom the original Hungarian by Fercnez
Jansz New York: ID. Appleton & Co.; Vol.
svo., PIP 446.
ekossuth, by this work, comes out of !,
retirscy which it was believed was never to
be broken. The interest in his life and the
stirring scenes in which he had part has died
out in public estimation as a popular topic.
But Kossuth fills place in history, and his
:. Memoirs" add new pages to it and go to
the making up as a full record that which
is as yet scattered. The true historian
of modern Europe is yet to write
| of it. To him, to the political
student, TO the historical scholar, the present
work will prove valuable. From the begin
ming to the close an air of sadness pervades
the work, almost cast of gloom 1t is the
record of an unfortunate by himself A few
extracts from the introduction indicate the
| tohe of kossuth's mind.
. An INDISPENSABLE rush of feeling over
whelmed me, when the surrender at. Villages
| rendered me homeless,
No words can adequately express my
| feelings.
Before stepped across the frontier lay
down ON the soil of my native land ; pressed
upon 1t sobbing kiss of hlial love; l took a
handful OF earth one step, and l was like
the hull OF a wrecked ship thrown up by the
storm on 8. desert shore. A Turkish staff offi-
Ger greeted me courteously in the name of
Allah He led NE to place which be
had kindly caused to be prepared for me to
rest Tor the night under GoIs free heaven,
and-ssked tor my sword with downcast
eyes as II ashamed that Turk should dis
arm Hungarian.
. | unbuckled it and gave it to him without
tittering word; my eyes filled with tears,
! and he, wishing me sound rest left me alone
with my sorrow.
Rest to the homeless
Gould Adam rest when the gates of the
! Garden of Eden were closed behind him-be-
hind hirn, who was driven out because he had
eaten OF the fruit of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil?
My nation cannot sink under the suffer.
/ ing which has been dealt out to it. TIE
Hungarian question has historical, legal,
geographical, national. political, and arith-
metical basis; it is closely connected with the
interests of European freedom and the equi-
hbrium of power. Such questions appeal to
the logic Of universal history. The cry may
be siienced for time, but cannot be effaced
| from the record of facts upon which it has
been inscribed by history.
"a Hungarian question may exist be-
lieve it does exist, hidden deep in hearts, but
not before the world
There are no longer Hungarian refugees.
Il, with my sons and few faithful
friends, stand alone--forsaken, solitary wan
derers in the desert
- To me, the old wanderer who has arrived
at the verge of his grave, who has no hope in
the future, and in whose past there is no
consolation, the conviction of my heart says,
that as | was right once in the controversy
with the enemies of my country. so am l
now in the diversity of opinion with my own
nation-I am right.
.. The Judge of the World will decide
TIE LIfx AND WORK OF WILLIAM AUGUSTUS
MuBLESBERs By Anne Ayres. New York Hsr
per Bros San Francisco: A. l.. Bancroft 4 Co.
large Svo, with steel portraits.
This book is in 80 chapters and comprises
524 pages The author, Anne Ayers, has had
a personal acquaintance with DIR. Mullen
berg, extending over more than thirty years,
eighteen of which were spent under the same
roof with him, and in an Intercourse as close
as that of a daughter with a Ievered father
The value OF this volume is to be found in the
eminence of him of whom it treats Where
one has studied the subject of portraiture
for half lifetime the reader has reason to
in. In this respect he will not be disap-
pointed, for the author has been exceedingly
careful and delicate and exhaustive, and as a
result we have what is complete sketch,
with nothing of the unfinished about
it. The writing lacks in vigor but nothing in
grace. 1t is plainly evident that the author
writes of one deeply loved and revered
that critical analysis would to her seem al
most Proclamation. She assures us, however,
that DIR. Muhlenberg himself advised her to
the task when she announced her desire to
enter upon it, saying: You know more of
my heart and mind on all points, than any
other person living" The author adds;
6 During brief holiday in Europe. with
DR.. Muhlenberg, in the summer of 1872, the
opportunity was seized, as he reclined in the
intervals OF travelling, to take down many in
teresting particulars of those parts of his life
with which | was not personally familiar
and more especially to obtain, in his own
words, Gel tain statements of principles, and
opinions on points of importance, essential to
the authenticity and com pieteness Of what
had taken in hand to do. Such autobio graph
zeal information, it should be named, was
only given at my earnest solicitation" She
had access to the Doctors private
papers and journals, and ample time
was given for their thorough perusal.
The lady has evidently omitted nothing of
moment in the record she has made, and it
may be accepted as a very complete and ex-
naustive statement of the life work of one OF
the historic men of the age who came of q
family associated intimately with the earliest
days of the Republic.
SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. BY
John Arlington Symonds. In two volumes,
large Syo muslin. New York: Harper g. Bros
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co.
The title of this work gives idea OF its
character, for Mr. Symond's works are not
unfamiliar to the reading public. His OBJ
servant faculties, his historical knowledge
and his finish as a writer, lis literary ability
and research. serve TO make the present vol
umes of much interest and the pleasantest of
reading. The first volume introduces us to
The Cornice," charming chapter on Gre
clan ruins and history, Ajaccio. Florence and
the Medici; chapter on ''The Debt of
English to italian Literature" another
on Popular italian Poetry of the
Renaissance and another on the :. Orfeo of
Messer Angelo Poliziano, one of the most
important poems of the fifteenth century;
sSiena Perugia," popular Songs of Tus-
cany,' "Orvieto," "Thoughts in Rome
About Christmas" Antinous, Lueretius,
Amlf, Paestum, Capri. The second volume
treats of Palermo. Syracuse and Girgenti,
Etna, Athens, Rimini, Ravenna Canossa,
Last Century, Crema and the Crucitix,
Bergamo and Bartolommeo Colleoni, Como
and II Medeghino, Lombard Vignettes,
Monte Generoso, Love of the Alps, Old
Towns of Provence, Blank Verse, Note on
the 0rfeo, and Eight Sonnets of Petrarch.
Mr.. Symonds is, as We have said. a polished
writer-we should add, an enthusiastic one.
He uses words as the artist does the brush,
t, produce pictures of wondrous beauty. He
does not declaim but CLOVIS nevertheless