Lectures On The Life, Writings, And Times Of Edmund Burke.
By J. B. Robertson, Esq.
London: John Philp.
For sale by the Catholic Publication Society,
126 Nassau Street, New York.
In this volume, Professor Robertson, as an extremely conservative monarchist, and as an enthusiastic admirer of what he calls the "old temperate monarchy," best typified in modern politics by the government of England, the native land of the lecturer, treats of the history of the life, writings, and times of Edmund Burke, the most illustrious Irishman of the eighteenth century, and, in purely civil affairs of all times, from a monarchical point of view; and makes his lectures, which he seems to have designed for a biography of the greatest of British orators and statesmen, really the medium of an exposition of his own peculiar doctrines and opinions in the political relation, with such incidental notices of the immortal Burke as were deemed pertinent to the illustration and enforcement of the political speculations of the gifted lecturer, who appears to live and move in utter awe of "the spirit of revolution," and in utter detestation of "the sovereignty of the people" and of "the republic." The book is of value chiefly as showing how the complex affairs known as constituting the modern world are viewed by an Englishman of fine culture, eloquent expression, and very conservative instincts and sympathies.
The book is got out in Mr. Philp's best style; the paper, type, and binding are faultless.
Sadlier's Catholic Directory, Almanac, And Ordo, for the year of our Lord 1869.
This work is published in the same style as heretofore, and is, we presume, about as correct as can be expected of such a publication. There is one improvement, however, which could be made at the expense of one cent a copy, namely, to sew the book instead of stitching it. The way it is now bound, several pages are defaced by the large holes punched through the book.
A Practical And Theoretical Method Of Learning The French Language.
By A. Biarnois.
D. & J. Sadlier & Co. 1868.