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LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION CO., I.-Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 1863-1888. Edited by James Macaulay, A.M., M.D. II.-1. The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., formerly United States Minister in England; Author of Rise of the Dutch Republic,' 'History of the 2. John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir. By Oliver Wendell III.-1. Goethe's Letters to Zelter, with Extracts from those of Zelter to Goethe. Selected, translated, and anno- tated by A. D. Coleridge, M.A., late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. London, 1887. 2. Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret. Translated from the German by John Oxenford. 3. Life of Goethe. By Heinrich Düntzer. Translated by Thomas W. Lyster, Assistant Librarian, National Library of Ireland. 2 vols. London, 1883. 5. Briefwechsel zwischen Schiller und Goethe in den Jahren 1794 bis 1805. 2 vols. Stuttgart, 1870 332 IV.-1. Thrift. By Samuel Smiles, LL.D. New Edition. 2. The Records of Bankruptcy, from 1869 to 1888 - 360 V.-Annals of the House of Percy, from the Conquest to the Opening of the Nineteenth Century. By Edward 7. The Man of his Word, and other Short Stories. By 8. The Bachelor's Blunder. By the Same. London, 9. My Friend Jim. By the Same. London, 1886. 10. Major and Minor. By the Same. London, 1887. And other Works. - VIII.-1. The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, based on contempo- rary documents; together with his Letters now first 3. Lives of Raleigh. By Louise Creighton, London, 1877; by Edmund Gosse, London, 1886; and others 483 And other Works. Professor Lechler. Translated by the late Professor 2. Wiclif's Place in History. By Professor Montagu 3. John Wiclif; his Doctrine and Work. By Chr. X.-1. Frau von Staël, ihre Freunde und ihre Bedeutung in geb. Gräfin Leyden. 3 vols. Berlin, 1888. 2. Madame de Staël, her Friends, and her Influence in 532 APR 29 1889 THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 1863-1888. Edited by James Macaulay, A.M., M.D. With a Portrait. London, 1889. HIS volume furnishes a record which is absolutely unique in the annals of any Royal House. It is the lot of the heirs to most of the thrones in Europe to have their energies directed chiefly towards the formation of vast armaments, and the study of the art of war. The more fortunate circumstances of our own country have left its future monarchs free to pursue a different career. Opportunities of great social usefulness are within their grasp, although in former days it can scarcely be said that they were invariably turned to the best account. It was not usual to consider that the heir to the Crown had important and onerous duties to discharge for the benefit of the people, or that his time belonged to others rather than to himself. To be required to take an active interest in every charitable work; to travel two or three hundred miles for the purpose of laying a foundation stone or opening a new building; to attend innumerable public dinners with the view of enticing money from the purses of others, while not forgetting to make a substantial contribution oneself; to be expected to assist every conceivable object, from an orphan asylum to a life-boat institution, from an international exhibition to a cab-drivers' benevolent societyall this was not at one time supposed to form any part of the private or public duty of the Princes of Wales. If history does not belie those personages, the idea of owing any kind of serious obligation to the public did not occupy an inconveniently prominent place in their thoughts. The times in which they lived, the general tone of opinion, the adulatory voices which filled their ears, all helped to strengthen the pleasing belief that, if they were born to a great position, it was in order that they might extract as much enjoyment as possible out of it. The Vol. 168.-No. 336. U present |