THE

NATIONAL REVIEW.

VOL. IV.

JANUARY AND APRIL 1857.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY.

MDCCCLVII.

LONDON:

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THE NATIONAL REVIEW.

CONTENTS OF No. VII.-JANUARY 1857.

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ART. I.-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

William Wordsworth. A Biography. By Edwin Paxton Hood.

London: W. and F. G. Cash. 1856.

ART. II.-THE RELATIONS OF ART TO RELIGION

The Poetry of Christian Art. By A. F. Rio (English Translation).

London: 1854.

Esthetic Papers. Edited by Elizabeth P. Peabody. Boston:

1849.

History of Latin Christianity. By Henry Hart Milman, D.D.

(Volume VI. Chapters viii. ix. x.) London: 1855.

Pictures of Europe, framed in Ideas.

1855.

The Seven Lamps of Architecture.

edition. London: 1855.

ART. III.-BALZAC EN PANTOUFLES.

By C. A. Bartol. Boston:

By John Ruskin. Second

BY LÉON GOZLAN

Balzac en Pantoufles. By Léon Gozlan. 1 vol. Paris: Michel

Levy. 1856.

ART. IV.-MR. SPURGEON AND HIS POPULARITY.

The New Park-Street Pulpit, containing Sermons preached and

revised by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, Minister of the Chapel,

during the year 1855. Vol. I. London: Alabaster and Pass-

more. 1856.

ART. V.-LATHAM AND GRIMM ON THE ETHNOLOGY OF GER-

MANY.

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The Germania of Tacitus. By Dr. R. G. Latham. Walton and

Maberly. 1851.

Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache. By Jacob Grimm. Leipzig:

1848.

ART. VI. THE LITERATURE OF SPIRIT-RAPPING

The Spiritual Herald. London: 1856.

The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph. 1855-6.

Apparitions: a New Theory. By Newton Crosland. London:

1856.

Epic of the Starry Heaven. By Thomas L. Harris. New York:

1856.

Lyric of the Golden Age. By Thomas L. Harris. New York:

1856.