[Footnote 26: _Comp. Studii Phil_. Cap. viii. p. 473.] [Footnote 27: _Opus Tertium_, Cap. xxiv. pp. 80-82.] [Footnote 28: _Opus Tertium_. Capp. xiv., xv., pp. 48-53.] [Footnote 29: _Id_. Cap. xiii. pp. 43-44.] [Footnote 30: _Id_. Cap. xxviii. p. 102.] [Footnote 31: _Opus Majus_. pp. 57, 64.] [Footnote 32: _Opus Tertium_. Cap. iv. p. 18.] [Footnote 33: See Hauréau: _Nouvel Examen de l'Édition des Oeuvres de Hugues de Saint-Victor._ Paris, 1869. p. 52.] [Footnote 34: Jourdain: _Recherches sur les Traductions Latines d'Aristote_. Paris, 1819. p. 373.] [Footnote 35: _Opus Tertium_. Cap. xii. p. 42.] [Footnote 36: _Id. Cap. ii. p. 14.] [Footnote 37: Reprinted in the Appendix to the volume edited by Professor Brewer. A translation of this treatise was printed at London as early as 1597; and a second version, "faithfully translated out of Dr. Dee's own copy by T. M.," appeared in 1659.] [Footnote 38: "Sed tamen sal petræ LURU VOPO VIR CAN UTRIET sulphuris; et sic facies tonitruum et coruscationem, si scias artificium. Videas tamen utrum loquar ænigmate aut secundum veritatem." (p. 551.) One is tempted to read the last two words of the dark phrase as phonographic English, or, translating the _vir_, to find the meaning to be, "O man! you can try it."] [Footnote 39: This expression is similar in substance to the closing sentences of Sir Kenelm Digby's Discourse at Montpellier on the Powder of Sympathy, in 1657. "Now it is a poor kind of pusillanimity and faint-heartedness, or rather, a gross weakness of the Understanding, to pretend any effects of charm or magick herein, or to confine all the actions of Nature to the grossness of our Senses, when we have not sufficiently consider'd nor examined the true causes and principles whereon 'tis fitting we should ground our judgment: we need not have recourse to a Demon or Angel in such difficulties. "'Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit.'"] [Footnote 40: _Nullity of Magic_, pp. 532-542.] [Footnote 41: _Comp. Stud. Phil._ p. 416.] RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Poems. By Sarah Gould. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 32mo. Blue and gold. pp. 180. 75 cts. Miss Gilbert's Career. An American Story. By J.G. Holland. New York. Charles Scribner. 12mo. pp. 476. $1.25. Curiosities of Natural History. Second Series. By Francis T. Buckland, M.A. New York. Rudd & Carleton, 12mo. pp. 441. $1.25. A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter, and their Relations to each other. By Michael Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S. Edited by William Crookes, F.C.S. New York. Harper & Brothers. 18mo. pp. 198. 60 cts. A History and Analysis of the Constitution of the United States; with a Full Account of the Confederations which preceded it, etc., etc. By Nathaniel C. Towle. Boston. Little, Brown, & Co. 12mo. pp. 444. $1.25. The History of Putnam and Marshall Counties, Illinois. By Henry A. Ford. Lacon. Published by the Author. 24mo. pp. 162. 25 cts.