pleasure, and at his own house, as, of course, no such manuscript would be allowed to leave the museum even for an hour. A second volume of this work of Professor Lightfoot is promised, which will contain the epistles of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp. * * * * * _A Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin_, by William Hugh Ferrar, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. Vol. I. London: Longman. 1869. 8vo. Studies in philology and comparative grammar appear to be on the increase in Great Britain, and are now pursued with great industry. Mr. Ferrar freely uses the labors of Bopp, Schleicher, Corssen, Curtius, and Max Müller, but by no means slavishly. He criticises their various systems with great freedom and intelligence, and produces a really meritorious work. * * * * * We remark the publication in Paris of a French translation of the first volume of the _History of the United Provinces_, by our countryman, John Lothrop Motley, the work to be completed in eight volumes. * * * * * We see announced, and as soon to appear, the first part of a work entitled, _Alexandre VI. et les Borgia_. The author is the reverend Father Ollivier, of the order of _Fréres Prêcheurs_. * * * * * _L'Histoire de la Restauration_, vol. vii., is the last work of M. Alfred Nettement, a distinguished, conscientious, and talented journalist and historian, who lately died in France, regretted and honored by men of all parties. He was sixty-four years of age, and had been an industrious author for forty years. Count Montalembert called him the type of the journalist and historian, _sans peur et sans reproche_. * * * * * The result of the chronological researches of M. Zumpt concerning the year of the birth of our Saviour (_Das Geburtsjahr Christi. Geschichtlich-chronologische Untersuchungen_) is rather severely commented upon by the German critics, notwithstanding his high historical reputation. They claim that he has not solved the problems presented by himself. * * * * * Volume iii. of the series of _Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury_, by Dr. Hook, dean of the cathedral of Chichester, contains a biography of Cardinal Pole. It is said to contain much new material on the subject, from the MSS. collections of Simancas and the Record Office. * * * * *