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And thus we travel on, through fair weather and foul,-now under Athenian ascendancy, now Spartan, now Theban-passing in review the reverses and convulsions of the Peloponnesian War, Corcyra in sedition, Scione in revolt, Amphipolis lost and won, and that awful night-battle of Syracuse, called by Mr. Grote "the most picturesque battle in history," fought as it was within the still waters of the land-locked bay, the glory of ancient harbours-the long, low barriers of Epipole and of the Hyblæan hills enclosing the doomed armament as within arms of stone-the white peak of Etna brooding over the scene from afar, like the guardian spirit of the island-while the infinite variety of human emotion in the groups along the shore, closing with the close of the battle in one universal shriek of despair, has been described by the historian's eloquent critic in the Quarterly Review, as only equalled by that which went up from the spectators on the hills round about Jerusalem, when the last crash of the burning temple announced that their national existence was at an end. But this reverse only served to elicit the indomitable energy of the suffering peoplecast down but not destroyed; and the History rather swells than declines in interest at this turning-point, and maintains its hold of .us "to see the end," through subsequent years of comparative dulness, and decadence the most evident, foreshowing and forerunning the death-in-life period of Hellas in extremis, of free-acting Greece in articulo mortis.

Mr. Grote had promised a critical résumé of the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, to form part of the closing volume. But as his History at large, so this volume in particular, outgrew his good intentions, and we are now to look forward (and marry we will) to the publication of this philosophical conspectus in a supplementary or complementary volume, the appearance of which, it may be presumed, will not be very long deferred. We tender our best congratulations to him, at parting, on the manner in which he has been enabled to carry through his grand enterprise. At Athens itself, within these few months, he has been lauded by a native Professor (Constantine Paparrogopoulos) as τον μεγαν Αγγλον ἱστοριογραφον ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΝ ΓΡΟΤΕ. His own countrymen have reason, as well as himself, to be proud of a work which, to the erudition and patient investigation supposed to be monopolised by our German cousins, adds the practical shrewdness and sober sagacity of the English publicist. Mr. Grote is, like the best of the Germans, a man of books; unlike a good many of them, he is something more: a man of thought, a man of sense, a man of action,-in fine, and is éros éimei, a man of

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INDEX

TO THE THIRTY-NINTH VOLUME.

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Campaign, Omer Pasha's, 507
Central America, 260
Chaucer, Bell's,

252

Cheshant, The Private Theatricals at,
161

Constantinople, A Week in. By Las-
celles Wraxall, 304
Costello, Dudley-The Joint-Stock
Banker: a Tale of the Day. Chap. I.

-The Man of the People. II-
Modern Speculation. III.-An In-
ventor. IV. The New Bank, 346.
V.-A Loan Transaction. VI.-
Messrs. Oriole and Peacock's Esta-
blishment. VII.-Château Belmont,
471. VIII-A Kind Patron. IX.
-An Old Acquaintance. X.-An
Ally, 551

Costello, Miss, "Lay of the Stork,"

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Falsehoods and Realities of the War, 19
Fielding, Lawrence's Life of, 154
Fifth Volume of Alison, 408.-
Ford, Mother. By Charles William
Jayne, 4851

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Lake Ngami, 611

Lamb, Charles. Prosings by Monks-
hood about the Essayists and Re-
viewers. VII. 1430 .00% b...
Lawrence's Life of Fielding, 154
"Lay of the Stork," Miss Costello's,
515

Glimpse of Beanfield, A. By John
Stebbing, 502
Goethe, Lewes's Life and Works of.
New Books by Monkshood, 96
Going to the Shows, 273
Gossip, Disjointed, from the other side
Mvddens out mort
M.
če
of the Big Pond. By the Author of
"Our Cousin Veronica," 575
Macaulay's History of Englands New
Grote's History of Greece. Mingle-Book Notes by Monkshood, 206 blo
Mangle by Monkshood, 533, 637 T Man in the White Hat, The Sketch
Guizot's Richard Cromwell, 567

Lewes's Life and Works of Goethe
New-Book Notes by Monkshood.
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Lodgers, Our First, 186
Lucy's Adventure, 416 20

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Ticket, 57 rings endles 1900
Materfamilias, Miseries of a Wet Day
in the Country, by, 384

Her Majesty's Theatre, Re-opening of, Meccah, El Medinah and, 366

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Christianity.
Minehead Pilots, The, 204
Book Notes by Monkshood, 316
181
Mingle-Mangle by Monkshood. Grote's
History of Greece, 533, 637
Miseries of a Wet Day in the Country.
By Materfamilias, 384

Monck, Mary C. F. The Old Year's
Death, 71

Monkshood, New Book Notesesby.
Lewes's Life and Works of Goethe,
96. Macaulay's History of Eng
land, 206. Milman's Latin Chris
tianity, 316

Monkshood, Mingle Mangle by

Grote's History of Greece, 533, 637
Monkshood, Prosings by, about the
Essayists and Reviewers. VII.-
Charles Lamb, 430

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Old and the New Year, The. A Song
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Tenby, Summer days at, 495 ́ ́
The Story of the Sea Anemone, 628
Thoughts and Apophthegms, Arch-
bishop Whately's, 625

Old Maid, How I grew into an, 831
Old Year's Death, The. By Mary C.
DF Monck, 71,261 65177 bli mTom Elliot's Prize, 519
Our First Lodgers, 186
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END OF THE THIRTY-NINTH VOLUME.

C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.

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