5. Portraits Contemporains et Divers. Par C. A. Sainte- Beuve, de l'Académie Française. 3 vols. Nouvelle 6. Tableau Historique et Critique de la Poésie Française au 16ème Siècle. Par C. A. Sainte-Beuve. Paris, 7. Poésies Complètes de Sainte-Beuve. Edition revue 8. Etude sur Virgile, suivie d'une étude sur Quintus de Smyrne. Par C. A. Sainte-Beuve, de l'Académie 9. Chateaubriand et son groupe littéraire sous l'Empire. Cours professé à Liége en 1848-1849. Par C. A. V.-Plato and the other Companions of Socrates. George Grote, F.R.S. 3 vols. London, 1865- VI.-Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss - - - VII. 1. A Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1862-3. By William Gifford Palgrave, late of the 8th Regiment Bombay N. I. 2. Histoire de l'Egypte sous le Gouvernement de Mohammed Aly; ou, Récit des Evènements Poli- tiques et Militaires qui ont eu lieu depuis le départ des Français jusqu'en 1823. Par M. Félix Mengin. Ouvrage enrichi de Notes par MM. Langlés et Jomard, et précédé d'une Introduction Historique VIII.-A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art. By Thomas Wright, Esq.; with Illustra- tions from various sources, drawn and engraved by IX.-1. Speeches of Mr. Bright at Blackburn, Birmingham, and Rochdale, November and December, 1865, and January, 1866. 'Times' newspaper. London. 2. An Essay on the History of the English Government 108 - 250 I.-1. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: with notices of some of his contemporaries. Commenced by Charles Robert Leslie, R.A.; continued and con- - 281 II.—1. The Judges of England: with Miscellaneous Notices connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the time of the Conquest to the Present Time. By Edward Foss, F.S.A., of the Inner Temple. 9 vols. 2. Tabulæ Curiales; or, Tables of the Superior Courts of Westminster Hall. Showing the Judges who sat in them from 1066 to 1864; with the Attorney and Solicitor Generals of each reign from the Institution of those Offices. To which is prefixed an Alpha- betical List of all the Judges during the same period, distinguishing the Reigns in which they flourished, and the Courts in which they sat. By Edward Foss, F.S.A., Author of The Judges of England.' III.-1. Reports of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Employment of Children and Young Persons in Trade and Manufactures not already regulated by Law, 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1866. 2. Reports of the Inspectors of Factories to Her Majesty's IV.-I. Lectures on the Science of Language, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861. By Max Müller, M.A. Fourth 2. Lectures on the Science of Language, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April, and May, 1863. By Max Müller, M.A. Second Series. London, 1864. 3. A Dictionary of English Etymology. By Hensleigh Wedgwood, M.A. (Vols. I. and II., Vol. III. Part. I.) 4. Chapters on Language. By the Rev. Frederic W. of our Coal-Mines. By W. Stanley Jevons, M.A., Fellow of University College, London, and of the Statistical Society. Macmillan and Co., 1865. 2. Reports received from Her Majesty's Secretaries of Embassy and Legation respecting Coal. With an Appendix. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. 1866. 3. Coal, Smoke, and Sewage, scientifically and practically considered; with Suggestions for the Sanitary Im- provement of the Drainage of Towns, and the bene- ficial application of the Sewage. Being the substance of a Paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. By Peter Spence. Maz 4. The London Corporation Coal Tax. An Explanation of the Origin, Progress, and Operation of the Tax, constituting at present an Annual Charge of above 187,000l. on a prime Necessary of Life throughout the whole area of country within twenty miles of the General Post-Office. By John Dickinson, Esq., F.R.S. London, 1854. Pamphlet. 5. To the Vestrymen of the Metropolitan Districts. The Metropolitan Board of Works and the London VI.-1. St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland: a Memoir of his Life and Mission. By James Henthorne Todd, D.D., 2. Essay on the Origin, Doctrines, and Discipline of the Early Irish Church. By the Rev. Dr. Moran, Vice-Rector of the Irish College, Rome. Dublin, 3. The Ancient Church of Ireland: a few Remarks on Dr. Todd's Memoir of the Life and Mission of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland. By Denis Gargan, D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Royal College of St. Patrick, Maynooth. Dublin, 1864 - THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-1. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864. By David and Charles Livingstone. London, 1865. 2. Despatches of Dr. David Livingstone to H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 3. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. By David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L. London, 1857. 4. Memoir of Bishop Mackenzie. By Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Dean of Ely. London, 1864. 5. Journals of the Royal Geographical Society. TH THE nineteenth century will be for ever memorable in the annals of African discovery. The mystery which for ages had hung over the interior of the great continent has been in a great measure dispelled. Equatorial Africa especially no longer appears as a blank in our maps. Many of its countries and political divisions have been laid down with tolerable certainty, and the positions of some of its rivers and mountains partially defined; but the great lake discoveries more than any other have excited the wonder and admiration of Europe. All our preconceived ideas of the interior of the great continent have been reversed; for regions which were supposed to be a scene of everlasting drought, under the perpetual, unclouded blaze of a vertical sun, have been found to be refreshed with constant showers, irrigated by perennial streams, and teeming with inhabitants. The further discovery of stupendous mountains crowned with eternal snow, within a short distance of the equator, added greatly to the surprise of geographers; and as a climax to an unexampled series of brilliant discoveries, the Nile was confidently said to have at last revealed its mysterious fountains, and the secret of ages to be disclosed. These important geographical discoveries have chiefly been made from the eastern coast. The missionaries Krapf and Rebmann, whose station was at Mombas, a few leagues to the east of Zanzibar, although they did not greatly enlarge our knowledge of the interior, yet were the precursors of Burton and Speke in those more extensive explorations, the results of which have so Vol. 119.-No. 237. honourably B honourably distinguished their names. Dr. Livingstone, operating in a different region, but on the same side of the continent, has contributed in a very considerable degree to increase our geographical knowledge. Africa was first crossed by him from Mozambique, on the Indian Ocean, to Loanda, a Portuguese settlement on the shores of the Atlantic, in 1855, an achievement which was soon afterwards followed, we might even say surpassed, by the unparalleled march of Captains Speke and Grant, with a small armed escort, from the shores of the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The discoveries of Dr. Livingstone have made known to us an extensive portion of Africa, and their effect may ultimately be to open up to commerce and civilisation a country which has few superiors in fertility on the African continent. Dr. Livingstone was the first European who crossed the African Continent from its eastern to its western shore. He found the great river Zambesi far in the interior, where its existence was not known even to the Portuguese, and he was the first who visited its stupendous cataracts, to which he gave the name of the Victoria Falls. is also the discoverer of the great Nyassa Lake and the Shirwa, in the sense at least of having been the first European to visit them and to fix their geographical positions. He collected an immense amount of information respecting the manners, character and habits of the people of this part of the African continent, formed lasting friendships with several of their chiefs, acquired a knowledge of the languages of the country, and laid the foundation of a more regular intercourse for which it was one of the principal objects of his mission to prepare the way. He Having been deputed by the London Missionary Society to seek for a suitable place for the location of a permanent establishment, he ascertained that the highlands on the borders of the great basin of the Zambesi were comparatively healthy, and that it was desirable to open a regular and speedy communication with them, in order that the Europeans might pass as quickly as possible through the pestilential regions of the coast. The character of the population appeared to be eminently favourable for an experiment being made for the improvement of their social state by means of commerce, and for their ultimate conversion to Christianity. These views received the cordial support of all classes on Dr. Livingstone's return to England; and on the publication of his 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa,' his peculiar aptitude for enduring the hardships and perils incidental to African exploration, his tact in dealing with obstructive chiefs, and the heroism of his character, were so clearly but unobtrusively revealed that the Government readily responded to |