Contemporary Literature [pp. 395-424]

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learned part of the Council, such boastful triumph in a victory of a bare
majority, obtained by such questionable means, reveal the animus of the
Council.
The full history of the Council of Trent was known only after private
journals, letters and memoirs were slowly brought to light. Such light
will be thrown more speedily upon the Vatican Council.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
The Student's Hallam's Middle Ages. View of the State of Europe
during the Middle Ages. By HENRY HALLAM, LL.D., F. R. A. S. Incorp orating in the text the author's latest researches, with additions from
recent writers, and adapted to the use of students. Edited by WM.
SMITH, D.C.L., LL.D. Pp. 708.
The Student's A ncicnt History of the East. From the Earliest Times
to the Conquest by Alexander the Great. Including Egypt, Assyria,
Babylonia, Media, Persia, Asia Minor, and Phcenicia. By PHILIP SMITH, 4
B. A. Illustrated.
These two volumes are valuable additions to Har~e~`S Student's Series.
This edition of Hallam will be found as convenien< for the general reader
as for the student. It is hardly an abridgment, for "nothing essential or
important has been left out." The "Supplemental Notes" have been
incorporated into the body of the work, omitting such views as the author
had himself rejected. The editor has added various original documents,
such as the Statutes of William the Conqueror, the Charter of Liberties
of Henry I, the Constitutions of Clarendon, Magna Charta, etc; also
Genealogical Tables.
The second of the above volumes, Philtp Smith's Ancient History of
the East, an original work, is based upon an independent study of the
ancient writers, and a careful use of the best modern authorities, such as
Rawlinson, Wilkinson, Layard, Oppert, and Lenormant. It is brought
down to Alexander's Conquest, the true epoch at which the East yielded
to the West. It does not include the History of the Jews, that having
been treated at length in the " Student's Old Testament History." It is
an excellent and carefully prepared Manual.
Memoir of Rev. Patrick CO~iand. By EDWARD D. NEILL. Scribner
& Co. The author of this memoir is already well known to historical students by the results of his careful historical investigations in his "Terra
Mari~," "Virginia Company," and "English Colonization of America in
the Seventeenth Century," in all of which works, as in the present, he
has made use of new manuscript documents, and cleared up some doubtful points. Rev. Patrick Copland was the Rector elect of the first projected college in the United States, under the Virginia Company. This
project failed, but Copland labored for some time at Bermuda, where he
probably died.