"Mr. REEVE'S volumes will be read with eagerness by all students anxious to possess themselves of accurate knowledge of the revolutions which have convulsed France almost continuously since 1789. His essays are based upon careful and elaborate research, always referring to the original historical documents, which afford evidence of the memorable events and epochs which he passes in review. His philosophical and political speculations are distinguished by their temperate tone, although occasionally he manifests irrepressible indignation when enormous atrocities naturally provoke it. A better key to the complicated but connected course of recent French history could not be imagined. The series of Essays embraces the fluctuating progress and regression of public interests under the several ruling powers which have succeeded one another as despots, legitimate kings, constitutional sovereigns, or Republicans; and at each step of the marvellous narration its causes and effects are traced.

From the Author's masterly survey of the consequences of the French Revolution, the reader is made unconsciously to recognise, as a grand inference from the whole history, the wonderful recuperative power which is a chief characteristic of the French nation. That elasticity has hitherto enabled it to recover its equilibrium after the most astounding perturbations have shaken all its institutions to the very centre; and it is hence to be argued that even the disastrous depression created in her condition by her latest catastrophe, brought on by rash and groundless provocation of war, will be succeeded by the complete restoration of political order, which will restore the prosperity so madly interrupted by reckless guidance and its disorganising effects on the community. The volumes are replete with interesting narratives as well as sound political arguments, and must impress every reader with a high estimate of the Author's merits as a philosophical and trustworthy historical essayist.' MORNING POST.

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'It is due to Mr. REEVE, the translator of M. DE TOCQUEVILLE's very nice and delicate language, to bear our testimony to the fidelity with which he has executed a task of considerable difficulty.'

QUARTERLY REVIEW, Sept. 1836.

'DE TOCQUEVILLE'S work, now that the Author is in his grave, remains a proud monument of his sagacity and discrimination; and it will continue for years a beacon to European politicians, by the aid of which they may steer clear of the rocks and whirlpools of popular passion and popular licence engendered by unbridled and uncontrollable popular power. The publication of the present new edition at this time is a general boon.'

MORNING HERALD.

"We cannot conceive a more opportune venture at this moment than the appearance of a new edition of M. DE TOCQUEVILLE'S America, when the anticipations he published so many years back are come to the test of a practical fulfilment. His translator, Mr. HENRY REEVE, naturally glances at the great and grave changes which have passed over the world since, twenty-five years ago, the first portion of this commentary on the American Constitution was published; and no less naturally and reasonably he insists on the fact, which is so startling a testimony to the pre-science of TOCQUEVILLE'S philosophy, that the years which have swept away so much have left this book to stand.'

The TIMES.