Den Gulden Winckel. Jaargang 2

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Geschiedenis. land. en volkenkunde

Amedeo di Savoia, Luigi: duca degli Abruzzi, U. Gagni e B. Cavalli-MoIinelli: Osservazioni scientifiche eseguite durante la spedizione polare di S.A.R. Luigi Amedeo di Savoia. Milano, U. Hoepli. f 16.25

Anderson, Joseph: Scottish History and Life. With 437 Illustrations. London, James Maclehose and Sons. f 29.40 ‘Certainly one of the best productions of the year’ - Spectator. ‘The book has an interest and an educational value that should ensure its widespread popularity’. - Morning Post.

d'Arbez: Aan Tafelbaai's strand, of twintig jaren uit het leven van een Kapenaar (1791-1811). Amsterdam-Kaapstad, Hollandsch-Afrikaansche Uitgevers-maatschappij vrhn. Jacques Dusseau & Co. f 1.25; geb. f 1.60

Bacon, E.M.: The Hudson River from Ocean to Source. New-York, Putnam's Sons. f 12.60

Bentzon, Th.: Promenades en Russie. Paris, Hachette. f 1.90 ‘Elles sont d'un charme pénétrant et toujours fort instructives les impressions qu'a suggérées à Th. Bentzon. Ce pays de transformation, ces paysans chez qui l'industrie se propage, ce mouvement intellectuel et social qui commence à se développer. - Revue des deux Mondes.

Boden Kloss, C.: In the Andamans and Nicobars. With Maps and Illustrations. London, Murray. f 14.70 ‘Science owes a considerable debt to Mr. Kloss for the patient investigations of which this work is the satisfactory fruit. His travels were made in 1900 and 1901 as the guest of Dr. W.L. Abbott, the captain and owner of the schooner ‘Terrapin’, in which they sailed. Between them they added sixteen to the known mammalian fauna of the archipelagoes, and thanks to their energy and tact secured a number of admirable photographs. - Academy.

Boeck, Dr. Kurt: Durch Indien ins verschlossene Land Nepal. Ethnographische und photographische Studienblätter. Mit 36 Separatbildern, einem Panorama und 40 Abbildungen im Text. Geb. Leipzig, Ferdinand Hint & Sohn. f 6.50 ‘In den 277 von Dr. Boeck mit bekanter Meisterschaft und Eigenart photographisch aufgenommenen Illustrationen führt der Verfasser die bemerkenswertesten Vorkommnisse seiner vier grossen Reisen in allen Teilen Indiens, einschliesslich Birmas, Ceylons und des geheimnisvollen, mit Tibet nahverwandten Landes Nepal vor. Es ist überraschend, welche Fülle des Neuen, Interessanten und Wissenswerten sich uns hier bietet’.

Boeka: Uit Jaya's binnenland. Beschaving. 2 dln. Amsterdam, F. van Rossen. f 4.90

Bourne, H.R. Fox: Civilisation in Congoland. A story of international wrong-doing. With a prefatory note by the Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke. With Map. London, P.S. King. f 7.35

Boutry, Maurice: Choiseul à Rome. Lettres et mémoires inédits. Paris, Calmann Lévy. f 2.20 ‘Monsieur Boutry a retrouvé et a publié, dans le volume dont on nous donne anjourd'hui une nouvelle édition, - pour inaugurer une collection historique nouvelle, - les rapports et les lettres que Choiseul écrivit au cours de sa mission à. Rome. Ces documents sont de plus haut intérêt. - La Revue de Paris.

Brandes, George: Poland. A Study of the Land, People, and Literature. London, Heinemann. f 8.40 There is perhaps no national literature so little known in Europe as the Polish, no national character so little illumined for us by accessible evidence as the Poles'. We therefore welcome Dr. George Brandes' ‘Impressions of Poland’, now issued in a translation. To help combat the sluggish indifference to modern foreign literature, that has become not a little marked in England of late years, we trust that our readers will make a point of seeing Dr. Brandes' ‘Poland’. They will be repaid. - The Academy.

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Brun, Eugène le: Les Ancêtres de Louise de la Vallière. Paris, Grégoire. f 4.15

L'un des grands mérites de cet ouvrage, c'est d'avoir fait d'aprés des documents inédits, et pour la plupart inconnus, découverts par l'auteur dans les archives du Château de la Baume. - La Revue de Paris.

Bryce, James: Studies in contemporary Biography. London, Macmillan. f 7.- ‘The studies are twenty in number, and include such names as those of Beaconsfield, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, W.E. Gladstone, Charles Stuart Parnell, Anthony Trollope, and John Richard Green. In his preface Mr. Bryce says: ‘These Studies are... not to be regarded as biographies, even in miniature. My aim has rather been to analyse the character and powers of each of the persons described, and, as far as possible, to carry the impression which each made in the daily converse of life. All of them, except Lord Beaconsfield, were personally, and most of them intimately, known to me’. - The Academy.

Burrows, Guy: The Curse of Central Africa, with which is incorporated: A Campaign amongst Cannibals by Edgar Conisius. With coloured Map and Illustr. London, Everett. f 14.70.

Cabanès, le Dr.: - Les Indiscrétions de l'Histoire. Avec 10 grav. Paris, Plon Nourrit. f 1.90

Cambridge, Ada: Thirty years in Australia. London, Methuen & Co. f 4.90

Cappelle, Dr. H. van: De binnenlanden van het district Nickerie. Lotgevallen en algemeene uitkomsten eener expeditie door het westen der kolonie Suriname in September en October van 1900. Met een overzichtskaart, talrijke platen, in en buiten den tekst en een aantal figuren. Uitgegeven met toestemming van het koloniaal bestuur. Baarn, Hollandia-drukkerij. (m. afb., 20 pltn. en 1 krt.). f 6.-; geb. f 6.75

Carlyle, Jane Welsh: New letters and memorials. Annotated by Thomas Carlyle, and edited by Alexander Carlyle. Introd. by Sir James Crichton-Browne. 2 vols., w. 16 illustr. London, J. Lane. f 17.50 ‘These new letters have the qualities which are familiar to us in the old - they are brilliant, frank, and often unwise. The main object of the editor and the writer of the introduction is to vindicate Carlyle at the expense of his wife. Sir James Crichton Browne comes to the conclusion that she suffered from ‘cerebral neurasthenia,’ and hazards the assertion that Carlyle ‘must have been nearly flayed during her mental derangement.’ - The Academy.

Cartwright, Mrs. Ady Julia: Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539; a study of the Renaissance. 2 vols. London, J. Murray. f 17.50 ‘Mrs. Ady says in her preface: “The life of Isabella d'Este has never yet been written. After four hundred years, the greatest lady of the Renaissance still awaits her biographer.” Attempts have been made before by French, German and Italian scholars, but their work was either interrupted or cut short by death. Mrs. Ady's biography does not claim to be exhaustive; it is put forth as likely to be of interest to readers who are already familiar with the writer's Life of Isabella d'Este's sister Beatrice’. The Academy.

Cottin, Paul: Sophie de Monnier et Mirabeau d'aprés leur correspondance secréte inédite (1775-89). Paris, Plon-Nourrit & Cie. f 4.15

Dénis, Samuel: Histoire Contemporaine. 4 volumes. Paris, Plon Nourrit f 16.60 ‘Toutes les lettres, tous les mémoires, toutes les dépêches, tous les discours de l'époque y sont minitieusement consignés’ - L'Illustration.

Drumont, Edouard: Vieux portraits, vieux cadres. 110 dessins par Gaston Coindre. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, f 1.90

Dubois, L. Paul: Frédéric le Grand d'aprés sa correspondance politique. Paris, Perrin & Cie. f 1.90

East, W. Quartermaine: The last Days of Great Men: Cromwell, Napoleon, Mahomet. London, Sampson Low. f 4.20 ‘Mr. East has at least the virtue of modesty. He does not claim to have made any new discoveries concerning these three great men, he merely claims that his studies are “inspired by a genuine love of their subject, and though falling far short of what the writer could desire, may yet throw fresh light on the lives and characters of these remarkable men.” Mr. East is a frank hero worshipper, with the hero worshipper's limitations. The main object of his essay on Cromwell is to prove Cromwell's sincerity as a Christian: a question too metaphysical for proof at this time of day.’ - The Academy. ‘A work of undoubted industry, ability, and enthusiasm. The style is vigorous, and there is much that is interesting in these essays.’ - Times. ‘The book is altogether readable, and not without its occasions for reflection. This gives to Mr. East's pleasant publication the right to be ranked among contributions to the literature of history.’ - Globe. ‘A volume of pleasant and interesting studies, and the author's sympathetic attitude in every case helps to the delineation of many characteristic traits of mind and disposition.’ - Pall Mall.

Firth, John B.: Augustus Caesar, and the Organisation of the Empire of Rome. London and New-York, Putnam. f 3.50 ‘Mr. Firth has produced a sound, if not very lively, essay on one of the most interesting chapters in Roman history, the formation of the Empire under Augustus. He assumes some acquaintance with the Latin tongue and considerable familiarity with the Roman Constitution. Given these postulaten, he is a helpful guide through a confused period.’ - The Illustrated London News.

Fisher S.G.: The true history of the American revolution.

Philadelphia-London, J.B. Lippincott Co. f 7.35

Forster, J.J.: The Stuarts. Illustrations of personal history of family (especially Mary Queen of Scots) in the 16th, 17 th, and 18th century art. London, John Dickinson & Co. 2 vols. f 147.- ‘The portraiture of the romantic but corrupt race of the Stuarts was an almost inevitable bait for the learned industry of. Mr. J.J. Forster, historian of the British miniature-painters, and the two fine volumes which he has now produced under the title of ‘the Stuarts’ are well worthy of his antiquarion skill. - Illustrated London News.

France, Hector: Au Pays de Cocagne. Paris, Fasquelle. f 1.90 ‘C'est le monde des joueurs, types de pontes, de croupiers, de professeurs aux boniments sensationnels, histoires de jeu et scènes de casino. L'auteur, heureusement, a joint à ce livre de jolies descriptions de la Côte d'Azur, etc. - Mercure de France.

Fruin, Robert: Verspreide geschriften. Met aanteekeningen, toevoegsels en verbeteringen uit des schrijvers nalatenschap uitgegeven door dr. P.J. Blok, dr. P.L. Muller en mr. S. Muller Fz. 's-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff. f 3.60; geb. f 5.25 ‘VII: Kritische studiën over geschiedbronnen. 1e deel. (VIII, 524 blz.).

Gautier, Paul: Madame de Staël et Napoléon. Avec portrait. Paris, Plon Nourrit & Co. f 4.40