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A HISTORY OF THE HUGUENOT EMIGRATION
TO AMERICA.

By CHARLES W. BAIRD. This important work, which was announced for publication last autumn, but was necessarily delayed, is now issued.

[FROM THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE.]

"The story of the Huguenot emigration to America has remained till now unwritten. This has not been due to a lack of interest in the subject, nor to a failure to recognize its importance. Yet there has scarcely been a serious attempt to set in order the facts that have been known in reference to this theme; much less, to delve into the mass of documentary evidence that might be supposed to exist. The present work is the fruit of investigations that have been carried on, in this country, and in France and England, during the last ten or twelve years. The materials used have been found largely in unpublished documents."

FAN VEDDER'S WIFE.

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PEPYS' DIARY.

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POETICAL WORKS OF MRS. BROWNING.

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TEACHING OF THE TWELVE

APOSTLES.

Edited with a Translation, Introduction, and Notes by ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK, D.D., and Professor FRANCIS BROWN. 1 vol., 8vo, $2.00.

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LIFE AND TIMES OF

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GLENAVERIL; OR, THE METAMORPHOSES.

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A record in which the verities of science are endowed with the interest of romance."-Professor Tyndall.

THE NATURE AND REALITY OF RELIGION.

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Obiter Dicta. -Mrs. Oliver's Biography of Dean Stanley.-Mrs. Fenwick Miller's Life of Harriet Martineau.-Ward's Memoir of Humphry Sandwith.-Mason's Personal Traits of British Authors.-Mrs. Leonowen's Life and Travels in India. Probyn's Italy, from the Fall of Napoleon I. in 1815 to the Death of Victor Emmanuel in 1878.-Walford's Greater London, Vol. II.- Timayenis's Greece in the Time of Homer.-Gildersleeve's The Olympian and Pythian Odes of Pindar.-Merriam's Herodotus.-Mrs. Ewing's Daddy Darwin's Dovecot.- Hare's Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia.- Discriminate.

LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS

TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS FOR APRIL
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THE CHANCELLOR BISMARCK.*

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On the first day of this month of April, Prince Bismarck, and the German people with him, celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the great Chancellor's birth. It is an event of much more than local or family interest, and may well invite to a fresh survey of that remarkable life, now just passing the normal limit. For even if Bismarck is not, as many think him, "the leading citizen and present governing power of the world," his career stands already among the dozen or so that make the sum of modern history. Hitherto the materials for a fair comprehension of the man have not been easily accessible. Of recent books there was scarcely anything better than Herbert Tuttle's "German Leaders," dating from 1876, - for Towle's very slight sketch is not really worth mentioning, and the main dependence of the inquirer was the abundant but elusive literature of the periodicals. But last summer the semi-official biography of Herr Busch appeared in English dress, and supplied abundant materials for the study of certain phases of the Chancellor's career. This is not

*OUR CHANCELLOR. SKETCHES FOR A HISTORICAL PICTURE. By Moritz Busch. Translated by Beatty-Kingston. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

His

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen was the fourth child of his parentsa family of the oldest and starkest Brandenburg nobility,-born on the family estates near Stendal, about sixty miles west of Berlin. He was a boy tender and fond of home, a young man bold, wild, and vigorous; the best boxer, fencer, drinker, and rider of his university, a complete "Junker" in both body and mind. Göttingen reputation was that of one who never studied one professor averring that he never saw Bismarck in his lecture room; and it seems he maintained this standard pretty well afterward at Berlin, and then at Greifswalde, though at the former place he passed -it has been alleged, with difficulty his Staats-Examen, and became Auscultator-the first step in the German advocate's career; and at the latter he began those studies in the science of husbandry, especially in forestry, in which he is now an expert. During this period, however, he is credited with a taste for history in maturer years his chief study. especially the history of the Fatherland; and it is curious to note that at Göttingen John Lothrop Motley was among his student friends. He has had the grace and sense to repent of these early days-his Wanderjahre, for at thirty-six he wrote to his wife: "If only it would please God to fill up with clear strong wine the vessel in which at twenty-one the muddy champagne of youth frothed up to so little purpose! That was after he had begun his public career. He had been living on the family estates in Pomerania since 1839-having previously been on Government service a short time at Aix la Chapelle, and served his year of military duty at Potsdam, managing the extensive lands of the Bismarck family with his brother, when in 1845 the father died, and the estates were divided, Schönhausen falling to Otto. Two years after, he married, and about the same time was chosen by his fellow landowners of Prussian Saxony to the "Assembly of the Estates" of Prussia, in 1847. This may be taken as marking the beginning of the second stage of Bismarck's life.

At that time no one would have seen the statesman and the diplomat in the big burly Pomeranian, known the country over as "der tolle Junker". the Mad Squire, who alternately harried the neighbors with wild pranks,

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