REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

History of Charles VIII., King of France. By Count Philip de Segur, Lieutenant-General, Peer of France, Member of the French Academy, Author of “Napoleon’s Russian Campaign,” etc. Translated by Richard R. Montgomery. Two volumes, duodecimo. Philadelphia, Herman Hooker.

This work in its original language has been very popular, and some critics have deemed it the best of Segur’s productions. It is a history of France while that country was in the transition state between feudalism and centralism, and is written in the picturesque style of the old chroniclers.