THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. 208.

COMPRISING Nos. 414, 415,

PUBLISHED IN

JANUARY & APRIL, 1908.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

NEW YORK:

LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY.

1908.

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LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, Limited,
Stamford Street S.E., and Great Windmill Screet, W.

CONTENTS

OF

No. 414.-JANUARY, 1908.

ART. I.-NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN

1. Modern Spain, 1815-98.

By H. Butler Clarke. With

Cambridge:

Memoir by the Rev. W. H. Hutton.

University Press, 1906.

2. Historia de España y de la Civilizacion Española.

By Rafael Altamira y Crevea. Two vols. Barcelona:

Gill, 1900.

And other works.

ART. II.-WILLIAM BLAKE, POET AND PAINTER

1. The Poems of William Blake. Edited by W. B.

Yeats. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893.

2. The Poetical Works of William Blake. A new and

verbatim text from the originals, with notes and pre-

faces by J. Sampson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.

And other works.

ART. III. THE ENGLISH BOROUGH

1. Records of the Borough of Leicester. Edited by

Mary Bateson. Three vols. Cambridge: University

Press, 1899-1905.

2. Cambridge Gild Records, 1298-1389. Edited by Mary

Bateson. Cambridge: University Press, 1903.

And other works.

ART. IV. DR JOHNSON'S 'LIVES OF THE POETS'

1. Lives of the English Poets. By Samuel Johnson,

LL.D. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L. Three

vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.

2. Lives of the most Eminent English Poets, with

critical observations on their works. By Samuel

Johnson. Edited, with notes corrective and explana-

tory, by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A. Three vols.

London: Murray, 1854.

And other works.

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ART. V. THE RELIGIONS OF THE FAR EAST. II. JAPAN

1. Le Bouddhisme Japonais. By Ryauon Fujishima.

Paris: Maisonneuve, 1889.

2. The Religions of Japan. By W. E. Griffis. London :

Hodder and Stoughton, 1895.

1. Orlando Innamorato di Bojardo; Orlando Furioso di

Ariosto. With an essay, memoirs, and notes. By

Antonio Panizzi. London: Pickering, 1830.

Two vols.

2. Opere Minori di Lodovico Ariosto. Ordinate e anno-

tate per cura di Filippo-Luigi Polidori.

Florence: Successori Le Monnier, 1857.

And other works.

ART. VII.-EIGHT HOURS' DAY IN COAL MINES

First Report of the Departmental Committee appointed

to enquire into the Probable Economic Effect of a

Limit of Eight Hours to the working day of Coal

Miners. [Cd. 3427 and 3428 of 1907.]

And other works.

ART. VIII. THE POETRY OF MR ALFRED AUSTIN

The Season: a Satire; third edition, 1869.

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The Golden

Age a Satire, 1871. The Tower of Babel: a Celestial

Love-Drama, 1890. Savonarola: a Tragedy, 1891.

Alfred the Great; fifth edition, 1901. Fortunatus

the Pessimist; second edition, 1892.

And other works.

ART. IX.-THE RIGHT TO WORK

ART. X.-THE HAGUE CONFERENCE

Courrier de la Conférence de la Paix. Rédigé par

William T. Stead, nos 1-109. The Hague: June-

October, 1907.

And other works.

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ART. XI.-GREEK TEMPLES AND EARLY RELIGION

Aegina, das Heiligtum der Aphaia. By A. Furtwängler,

E. R. Fiechter, and H. Thiersch. Two vols. Munich:

Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1906.

And other works.

ART. XII.-The Jubilee OF THE ALPINE CLUB

Josias Simler et les Origines de l'Alpinisme jusqu'en

1600. Par W. A. B. Coolidge. Grenoble, 1904.

And other works.

ART. XIII.-MR BIRRELL'S RECORD IN IRELAND

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