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Taine's Italy.
(Rome, and Naples.) Translated by John Durand. A new edition, with corrections and an index. 8vo. Vellum cloth. $2.50.
"One of the most powerful writers of the day—to our own taste, indeed, the most powerful—the writer of all others who throws over the reader's faculties, for the time, the most irresistible spell, and against whose influence, consequently, the mental reaction is most violent and salutary. * * * His style, literally translated (and Mr. Durand is very literal), makes very natural English. It has an energy, an impetus, a splendor to which no words of ours can do justice. * * * Finally, we cannot help laying down our conviction that M. Taine's two volumes form a truly great production; great, not in a moral sense, and very possibly not in a philosophical, but appreciably great as a contribution to literature and history. One feels at moments as if, before this writer, there had been no critics, no travellers, observers, or æsthetic inquisitors."—Nation.
"No one who has studied art, or speculated on history, or cultivated a love for the beautiful, or allegiance to the true, can help finding rare instruction and delight in Taine's 'Italy.'"—Boston Transcript.