IV. _French Linguists._ Postel—Polyglot-Pater-Nosters—Scaliger—Le Cluse—Peiresc—Chasteuil—Duret—Bochart—Picquet—Le Jay—De la Croze—Renaudot—Fourmont—Deshauterayes—De Guignes—Diplomatic affairs in the Levant—De Paradis, Langlés—Abel Remusat—Modern School, Julien, Bournouf, Renan, Fresnel, the d’Abbadies, pp. 41-58. V. _German, Dutch, Flemish, and Hungarian Linguists._ Müller—(Regiomontanus)—Bibliander—Gesner—Christmann—Drusius— Schultens—Maes—Haecx—Gramaye—Erpen—The Goliuses—Hottinger—Kircher—Ludolf—Rothenacker—Andrew Müller—Witzen—Wilkins—Leibnitz—Gerard Müller—Schlötzer—Buttner—Michaelis—Catholic Missionaries—Richter, Fritz, Widmann, Grebmer, Dobritzhofer, Werdin—Berchtold, Adelung, Vater, Pallas, Klaproth, Niebuhr, Humboldt and his School—Castrén, Rask, Bunsen, Biblical Linguists—Hungarian Linguists—Csoma de Körös, pp. 59-81. VI. _British and Irish Linguists._ Crichton—Andrews—Gregory— Castell, Walton, Pocock, Ockley, Sale, Clarke, Wilkins, Toland, “Orator” Henley, Carteret, Jones, Marsden, Colebrooke, Craufurd, Lumsden, Leyden, Vans Kennedy, Adam Clarke, Roberts Jones, Young, Pritchard, Cardinal Wiseman, Browning, Lee, Burritt, pp. 81-99. VII. _Slavonian Linguists._ _Russians_—Scantiness of Materials—Early Period—Jaroslav, Boris—The Romanoffs—Beründa Pameva, Peter the Great, Catherine I., Mentschikoff, Timkoffsky, Bitchourin, Igumnoff, Giganoff, Tchubinoff, Goulianoff, Senkowsky, Gretsch, Kazem-Beg—_Poles_—Meninski, Groddek, Bobrowski, Albertrandy, Rzewuski, Italinski—_Bohemians_—Komnensky, Dobrowsky, Hanka, pp. 99-110. Miraculous gift of tongues—Royal Linguists— Lady-Linguists—Infant Phenomena—Uneducated Linguists, pp. 110-121. LIFE OF CARDINAL MEZZOFANTI. CHAPTER I. (1774-98.) Birth and family history—Legendary tales—Early education—First masters—School friends—Ecclesiastical studies—Illness and interruption of studies—Study of languages—Anecdote—Ordination—Appointment as Professor of Arabic—Deprivation of professorship, pp. 125-147. CHAPTER II. (1798-1802.) Straitened circumstances—Private tuition—The Marescalchi family—The military hospitals—Manner of study—The Magyar, Czechish, Polish, Russian, and Flemish languages—Foreigners—The Confessional—Intense application—Examples of literary labour, pp. 148-161. CHAPTER III. (1803-1806.)