* Mrs. Gardiner's _French Revolution_ (Longmans' Epoch Series, two shillings and sixpence) is decidedly the best and most useful text-book. II. Complete Histories. *Carlyle's _French Revolution_ is still unapproached for the dramatic splendour of its narrative and the brilliant portraits which it contains. Von Sybel's _History of the French Revolution_ (4 vols. tr.) is perhaps the most valuable of the many large histories, but is severely critical, and sometimes unfair to the advanced Revolutionists. It is largely occupied with the history of Germany, Poland and other countries at the time. Louis Blanc's _Histoire de la Révolution Française_ (12 vols.) is a long and eloquent defence of the Revolution, and especially of Robespierre. Michelet's _Histoire de la Revolution Française_ (7 vols.) is a brilliant and sympathetic work, rather more critical than that of Louis Blanc. *Morse Stephens' _History of the French Revolution_ (3 vols.--the last as yet unpublished) is the latest English narrative of the period, and has much valuable biographical information. In tone it is favourable to the Jacobin party. (The histories of Mignet, of Thiers, of Quinet, of the 'Deux Amis de la Liberté,' and of others are also of considerable value.) III. Critical and Illustrative Works. *Rousseau's _Contrat Social_; published at 25 centimes in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Arthur Young's _Tour in France_. *De Tocqueville's _L'Ancien Régime_ (tr. as _France before the Revolution_); of the greatest value in studying the condition of France in the eighteenth century. *Taine's _Les Origines de la France Contemporaine_ (4 vols.); a brilliant work, long, diffuse, and severely critical in its judgments, but, in spite of its bias, full of valuable information, especially in the notes. The first volume deals with the 'Ancien Régime,' the next three with 'La Révolution.' Burke's _Reflections on the French Revolution_. Sorel's _L'Europe et la Révolution Française_ (2 vols.); a very able and recent work on the foreign aspects of the Revolution. Schmidt's _Tableaux de la Révolution Française_ (3 vols.); a collection of papers relating largely to the secret police of Paris, some of which are of great value. Mortimer-Ternaux's _Histoire de la Terreur_ (8 vols.); a long and careful work, written with great minuteness, and very critical in tone towards the Revolutionary leaders. IV. Biographies, Memoirs and Correspondence. Voltaire, Life, by John Morley. Diderot, Life, by John Morley (2 vols.). Rousseau, Life, by John Morley (2 vols.). The second volume contains an admirable account of the Social Contract. *Turgot, an Essay by John Morley (Miscellanies, vol. II). Bailly, _Mémoires_ (3 vols.); the best original account of the first five months of the Revolution.