_The Jansenists: their Rise, Persecutions by the Jesuits, and existing
Remnant; a Chapter in Church History_: by S. P. Tregelles, LL.D., is an
interesting little monograph, reprinted with additions from Dr. Kitto's
_Journal of Biblical Literature_, and enriched with portraits of
Jansenius, St. Cyran, and the Mère Angelique. The history of the
Jansenist Church lingering in separate existence at Utrecht affords a
new instance of Catholicity of doctrine apart from the Papal communion;
and as such cannot fail to have a peculiar interest for many of our
readers.
The long, brilliant, and important reign of Louis XIV. has had many
chroniclers. The _Mémoires_ written by those who figured in its busy
scenes are almost innumerable; many, as may be supposed from the
character of the monarch and the laxity of the court, being little
calculated for general perusal. Mr. James therefore did good service
when he presented the reading world with his historical view of _The
Life and Times of Louis XIV._, a work in which, while he has done full
justice to the talents and genius of the monarch, and the brilliancy of
the circle by which he was surrounded, he has not allowed that splendour
so to dazzle the eyes of the spectator as to blind him to the real
infamy and heartlessness with which it was surrounded. We are therefore
well pleased to see Mr. James's history reprinted as the two new volumes
of Bohn's _Standard Library_.
Mr. L. A. Lewis of 125. Fleet Street will sell on Friday next two
extraordinary Collections of Tracts on Trade, Coinage, Commerce, Banks,
Public Institutions, and Trade generally. The First, in 167 Vols., in
fol., 4to., and 8vo., commences with Milles' _Customer's Replie_, 1604.
The Second, in 20 Vols., collected upwards of a century since, commences
with H. Gilbert's _Discourse of a Discoverie for a New Passage to
Cataia_, 1576. Both series should be secured for a Public Library.
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