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Two New School Histories of EnglandSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 105 (Mar., 1882), p. 170Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20496736 .

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170 New Books.

Irish Manufactures and Industries." (3M. H. Gill & Son). Father

Anderdon, S.J. has made a very telling controversial tract out of two

of his recent lectures, "Questions and Answers." (Burns & Oates.)

VI. Two new School Historie8 of England.

Tun first is "' A Concise History of England, by P. W. Joyce, LL.D., M.R.I.A." (M. H. Gill ancd Son.) Dr. Joyce's great practical ex

perience has enabled him to produce a book which is sure to be really serviceable, condensing into 150 pages a very clear suammary of the chief

events from the earliest times to the year 1815. The clearness of style and arrangement is helped by certain details in the use of various sorts

of type. The young historical student will find this book a great help.

The other book, by Mr. T. J. Livesey, only brings the history of England down to the Wars of the Roses. It is more juvenile and less

practical than its Dublin rival, and has many good pictures, and some ballads, fortunately not original. Messrs. Burns and Oates make this No. 11. of their " Granville History Readers "-so called, perhaps, out of compliment to Granville Mansions, their new publishing house, in

which we wish them a long career of utility and prosperity, true to the spirit of the worthy founder of the firm-James Burns.

VII. The new PortraEt of Cardinal Newman.

THTOUGH this paragraph is found under the heading of "New Books," it'does not refer to Mr. Jenning's recent biography of the great Cardinal, to which, kindly meant and pleasantly written as it is, we think the Irish

Ecclesiastical Record paid a most extravagant compliment last month. To be noticed at all by " P. M." was compliment enough. The por trait before us now is the only one that represents to us Cardinal

Newman as he is, " a man (says Te Times) bending under the weight of fourscore years, his face deeply furrowed, but with a brightness in the eyes which suggests that his work is yet far from being done." Let us give the venerable man's own words on the subject:

"It is, indeed, most acceptable to me, and a very thoughtful kind ness, that you should have proposed to provide a memorial of me for time to come, and memorial so specially personal, which, years hence,

will bring back vividly the remembrance of the past to those who have known me, and will carry on into the future a tradition of what I was like to the many who never saw me.... In carrying out your purpose you have had recourse to a man of widely-acknowledged genius, whose work, now finished, is generally pronounced to be worthy of his re putation, and is found by competent judges to claim more and more admiration the more carefully it is studied."

Mr. Ouless, A.R.A. is almost the greatest of living portrait-painters, and M. Rajon is, certainly, the greatest of living etchers.

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