mysterious nothings, and north country broken English twaddle, the tall, savage young gentleman having become poor, and the tall, ugly young lady having become rich, ugly feminine bestows herself upon savage masculine, and voila tout. Travels in Europe and the East: A Year in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. By SAMUEL IRENEUS PRIME. In two volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers.-Mr. Samuel Irenæus Prime is one of the most inveterate notability hunters we know of. Lives, living and dead, are his game, and no bloodhound has a keener or more persevering run after his appropriate prey than he. He runs down distinguished divines and seizes them within the sacred enclosure of their own church rails. He pushes into poets' houses and fastens upon them. He goes to palaces on days when they are closed to the public, and perseveres till he gets admission. He gets in the train of a member of Parliament and goes into the House of Commons with him, while other people struggle ineffectually for tickets to the lobbies. He frequents great dinners, but does not forget propriety and gravity of deportment, and retires in the middle of the banquet. He takes care to tell us that he waits on a distinguished lady to the dinner table, who is of so exalted a rank, that she can afford to disregard the set order of the banquet, and take precedence of the vast majority of the guests. He does not forget even those who are in any way connected with the distinguished people he so much admires. He visits Miss Southey, calls on the "Maid of Athens," whose sick daughter he has brought from her bed that he may look at her; sheds a tear over the grave of the "Dairyman's Daughter." There is one piece of abstinence and self-denial, however, for which we thank him. He reverences the sanctity of the recent grief at Rydal Mount, and forbears to intrude upon the widow Wordsworth. As for style, we have little to commend. He is dull and prosy, but in the midst of such interesting scenes the author, however heavy he may be, cannot always be absolutely unbearable, and we therefore find his book, in certain parts, quite readable. INDEX TO THE ELEVENTH VOLUME, NEW SERIES, OF THE SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW. A. ADRIANOPLE, Convention of, 385; Es- B. C. D. M. N. NANTZ, Revocation of the Edict of, 327; 544. 0. OCEAN BOTTOM, Constituents of the, 529; P. PAINTING, Scope of, 420; Parliament of 535. R. RANDOLPH EDWARD, 205; John, 237; Chemical Necessity of, 226; Ruskin. S. SCIENCE, Ancient, 509; Modern, 511; T. |