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“To English readers it will appear rather too full and rhetorical. We cannot praise the translation of the book. We have rarely seen a book with more misprints.”
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“Is throughout deeply interesting.”
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Rose, Achilles. Carbonic acid in medicine. $1. Funk.
The healing qualities of carbonic acid gas known centuries ago and used for therapeutical purposes have been re-discovered in modern science. The author has set forth the history and general usefulness of the properties to medical science.
Rose, John Holland. Napoleonic studies. [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
Essays, based principally on materials found while working on the author’s “Life of Napoleon I.,” which are of interest, with a few exceptions, to Napoleonic scholars. These exceptions are found in the chapters, “Wordsworth, Schiller, Fichte, and the Idealist revolt against Napoleon,” “The religious belief of Napoleon,” and “The detention of Napoleon by Great Britain.” The remaining discussions relate to: “Pitt’s plan for the settlement of Europe,” “Egypt during the first British occupation,” “Canning and Denmark in 1807,” “A British agent at Tilsit,” “Napoleon and British commerce,” “Britain’s food supply in the Napoleonic war,” “The Whigs and the French war,” “Austria and the downfall of Napoleon,” and “The Prussian co-operation at Waterloo.”
“While they vary in their temper and treatment as widely as the subjects, yet the author’s personality gives them quite sufficient unity to secure the interest of the reader and the continuity of the subject. Incidentally they clear up several little mysteries of antiquarian interest.”