Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. NO. CCCXXIV. APRIL, 1886. VOL. CLXII. CONTENTS: I. Matthew Parish II. The Christian Brothers.--Religious Schools in France and England. III. Archives of the Venetian Republic. IV. Yeomen Farmers in Norway. V. Oliver Cromwell: his character illustrated by himself. VI. Travels in the British Empire. VII. The Bishop of Durham on the Ignatian Epistles. VIII. Books and Reading. IX. Characteristics of Democracy. X. The Gladstone-Morley Administration. PHILADELPHIA: LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY, 1104 WALNUT STREET. THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION CO'S., PERIODICALS. Single Copies for sale by the following Dealers in Cities named: BALTIMORE, MD., Baltimore News Co., Sun. Iron Building. BOSTON, MASS., Cupples, Upham & Co., 283 Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL., Brentano Bros., 101 State St. CINCINNATI, OHIO. Robert Clarke & Co., 61 West 4th, St. HALIFAX, NOVA SCO., T. C. Allen & Co., 124 Granville St. HAMILTON, CANADA. J. Eastwood & Co., MONTREAL, CANADA. Dawson Bros., 233 St. James St. NEW ORLEANS, LA., Geo. F. Wharton & Bro., 5 Carondelet St. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Brentano Bros., 5 Union Square. PHILADELPHIA, PA., Leonard Scott Pub. Co., 1104 Walnut St. PROVIDENCE, R. I., S. S. Rider. RICHMOND, VA., Beckwith & Parham. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., J. C. Scott. 22 Third St. ST. JOHN, N. B., A. & J. McMillan. 98 Prince William St. ST. LOUIS, MO., St. Louis News Co., TORONTO, CANADA. Hart & Co., 31 King St., W. VICTORIA, BR. COL., T. H. Hibben & Co., Masonic Building. WASHINGTON, D. C., Brentano Bros., 1015 Penna. Av. _Annual Subscriptions Received by all Booksellers and Newsdealers._ THE LEONARD SCOTT PUB. CO., 1104 WALNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA, PA. CONTENTS OF NO. 324. Art. Page I.--Matthaei Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Edited by Henry Richards Luard, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Registrary of the University, and Vicar of Great St. Mary's Cambridge. Published by the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls. 7 vols. 8vo. London, Vol I. 1872--Vol. VII. 1883. 293 II.--1. The Christian Brothers, their Origin and Work, with a sketch of the Life of their Founder, The Venerable Jean Baptiste de la Salle. By Mrs. R. F. Wilson. London, 1883.