Literary Intelligence [pp. 358-366]

Literary Intelligence.
courteously, yet coldly; it compares such associations to the
guilds of the middle ages, and considers them a retrogression
to the tyrannical conservatism of past times. The January
Blackwood also calls these guilds "a modified socialism." This
expression occurs in an applauding review of a late work by our
countryman, Mr. Carey, "The Harmony of Interests," which is
devoted to the exposition and defence of the doctrine of protection. — Mr. Carey's works have been received with great enthusiasm by the tory party of England, in whom alone the socialistic or constructive element may be said to exist, and they are
really of a high order and have a great European- reputation,
being used as text-books even in the colleges of Sweden and
Norway. Theyare, "Principles of Political Economy," "Past,
Present, and Future," and besides the one mentioned, "The
Credit Systems of France, England, and the United States."
Dr. Achilli has just published in England "Papal Rome,
her Priests and her Jesuits, with important disclosures." A
new "History of Greece to the destruction of Corinth," has just
appeared, from the learned pen of Dr. Schmitz, of Edinburgh.
The English papers also announce the 5th and 6th volumes of
Lord Mahon's History of England." The history now enters
upon the first years of our Revolution.
I. P. Jewett & Co. have commenced' re-publishing " Grote's
History of Greece," on a good page and with fair type. It
will be comprised in about ten volumes, at 75 cents per volume,
while the English copy costs at least $2.50. It is the best
history of Greece yet produced; written in a critical spirit, yet
recognizing the bounds of just criticism. Thus the legends of
early Greece are not stripped of their beauty, and treated as
curious hieroglyphics, but as creations of what may be styled
an unconscious art. Any one who has ached over the chapters
in Thirlwall, that cover this ground, will find pleasant reading
in.the first volume of Grote. We cannot praise, however, the
binding; it almost came to pieces in the reading. Would it
not be a good enterprise for some one to re-publish Merivale's
History of the Romans under the Empire? Two volumes were
issued last year, and are to be procured here; but at a great
price. The book is written in a graphic style, and would no
doubt be popular.
The seventh volume of Schlosser's History of the Eighteenth
Century till the Overthrow of the French Empire, has been
translated by D. Davidson, M. A. This history is treated with
particular reference to mental cultivation and progress. The
present volume comprises the period between Buonaparte's first
command in Italy and the peace of Schbnbrunn. It is as able
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