THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. 147.

PUBLISHED IN

JANUARY & APRIL, 1879.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1879.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street

and Charing Cross.

CONTENTS

OF

No. 293.

ART.

I.-1. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Sämmtliche Schriften.

Neu durchgesehen und vermehrt von W. von Malt-

zahn. 12 Vols. Leipzig, 1853-71.

2. Lessing. By James Sime. 2 Vols. London, 1877.

3. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. His Life and Works.

By Helen Zimmern. London, 1878.

4. Lessing's Laokoon. Edited by A. Hamann, Phil. Doc.,

M.A., Taylorian Teacher of German in the Univer-

sity of Oxford. Clarendon Press Series. Oxford, 1878

II-1. Reports of the Executive Committee of the Society

for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage

and Control, for 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878.

2. The Church Defence Institution. An Association of

Clergy and Laity for defensive and general purposes.

Reports for 1874, 1875, 1876, and 1877.

3. Dissent in its relation to the Church of England.

The Bampton Lectures for 1871. By George Herbert

Curteis, M.A. London, 1872.

And other works.

III.-1. England's Mission. By the Right Hon. W. E.

Gladstone. The Nineteenth Century,' September.

London, 1878.

2. Imperialism. By the Right Hon. Robert Lowe. The

'Fortnightly Review,' October. London, 1878.

Page

1

48

3. The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. London, 1797 - 81

And other works.

IV.—1. The Life of Bismarck, Private and Political: with

Descriptive Notices of his Ancestry. By J. E. L.

Hesekiel. Translated and Edited, &c., by Kenneth

R. H. Mackenzie, F.S.A., &c. London, 1870.

2. Prince Bismarck's Letters, to his Wife, his Sister,

and others, from 1844 to 1870. Translated from the

German by Fitzh. Maxse. London, 1878.

3. Deux Chanceliers, le Prince Gortchakoff et le Prince