THE

WESTMINSTER

REVIEW.

JANUARY AND APRIL,

1879.

"Truth can never be confirm'd enough,
Though doubts did ever sleep."

SHAKSPEARE.

Wahrbeitsliebe zeigt sich darin, daß man überall das Gute zu finden und zu schätzen weiß

NEW SERIES.

VOL. LV.

GÖTHE.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.

MDCCCLXXIX.

Ballantyne Press

BALLANTYNE AND HANSON, EDINBURGH

CHANDOS STREET, LONDON

ABT.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. Dr. Johnson: his Biographers and Critics.

1. Routledge's Standard Library. The Life of Samuel Johnson,

LL.D. By JAMES BOSWELL. A New Edition, elucidated

by copious Notes. George Routledge & Sons: London and

New York.

2. Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson. (Founded

chiefly upon Boswell.) By ALEXANDER MAIN. With a

Preface by GEORGE HENRY LEWES. London: Chapman &

Hall. 1878.

3. English Men of Letters. Edited by JOHN MORLEY. Samuel

Johnson. By LESLIE STEPHEN. London: Macmillan &

Co. 1878.

4. Dr. Johnson: His Friends and his Critics. By GEORGE BIRK-

BECK HILL, D.C.L., Pembroke College, Oxford. London:

Smith, Elder, & Co. 1878.

5. The Six Chief Lives from "Johnson's Lives of the Poets," with

Macaulay's "Life of Johnson." Edited, with a Preface, by

MATTHEW ARNOLD. London: Macmillan & Co. 1878. 1

II. The Papacy: its Early Relations with Roman

Catholic States.

1. Resoconto autentico della disputa intorno alla Ventura di San

San Pietro in Roma. Roma: 1872.

2. La Ventura di S. Pietro in Roma. Nella Sala dell' Accademia

Tiburina la Sera del 10 Febbraio, 1872. Per il Professore

D. CATALDO CAPRARA, uno de'Sei, che accettarono la disputa.

Roma: 1872.

3. Statutes of the Realm of England, published by the Record Com-

mission, Nine volumes, London 1810, 1822, enacted during

the reigns of the following English Kings-Edward I.,

Edward II., Edward III., Richard II., Henry IV., and

Henry V.

4. Essays on the Rise and Progress of the Christian Religion in the

West of Enrope. By JOHN, EARL RUSSELL. London: 1873.

5. Nouvelle Histoire des Cardinaux François. Paris: 1785-88.

Dédiée au Roi-Louis XVI.

6. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Can-

terbury. Edited by JAMES CRAIGIE ROBERTSON, Canon of

Canterbury. Part of the Series, "Rerum Britannicarum

Medii Avi Scriptores." London: 1858. 8vo.

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