TIBKVIA 100448 LONDON: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Limited, Stamford Street and Charing Cross. I-1. La Sainte Bible, qui comprend l'Ancien et le Nou- veau Testament, traduits sur les Textes originaux Hébreu et Grec. Par Louis Segond, Docteur en 2. New Light on the Bible and the Holy Land, being an Account of some recent Discoveries in the East. By Basil T. A. Evetts, M.A., formerly of the Assyrian Department, British Museum. Illustrated. London, Paris, and Melbourne, 1892. 3. The Holy Land and the Bible. A Book of Scripture Illustrations gathered in Palestine by Cunningham 2. Les Prisons de Paris sous la Révolution, d'après les relations des Contemporains. Avec des Notes et une Introduction par Ĉ. A. Dauban. Paris, 1870 354 IV.-1. The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland, D.D., F.R.S. By his Daughter, Mrs. Gordon. V.-1. Minutes of Evidence taken before the Royal Com- mission on Agriculture. Volumes I. and II. 2. Reports of the Assistant Commissioners to the Royal Commission on Agriculture. London, 1894 and 1895 VI. The Border Edition of the Waverley Novels. With Introductory Essays and Notes by Andrew Lang, supplementing those of the Author. Illustrated by more than Two Hundred and Fifty new and original Etchings by eminent Artists. London, 1892-94 And other Works. VIII.—The Foundations of Belief, being Notes introductory 406 THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. 1.—1. Érasme, Précurseur et Initiateur de l'esprit moderne Par H. Durand de Laur. Paris, 1872. 2. Erasme, Étude sur sa Vie et ses Ouvrages. Par Gaston Feugère. Paris, 1874. 3. Renaissance et Réforme. Par D. Nisard, de l'Académie Française. Paris, 1877. 4. Érasme en Italie. Par Pierre de Nolhac. Paris, 1888. 5. Un Libre-Penseur du XVIme Siècle: Erasme. Par Émile Amiel. Paris, 1889. 6. Erasmus. The Rede Lecture delivered in the Senate-House on June 11, 1890, by R. C. Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1890. 7. Life and Letters of Erasmus. Lectures delivered at Oxford, 1893-4, by J. A. Froude, Regius Professor of Modern History. London, 1894. HE name of Desiderius Erasmus is certainly one of the most considerable in the literary annals of Europe. There have been, perhaps, only two other men of letters, during the Christian era, whose influence can be paralleled with his two who, like him, lived and worked in periods of transition; who, like him, furnish in their writings, and especially in their correspondence, the most vivid image of their time; who, like him, with small prescience of the destined course of events, were singularly potent instruments in moulding the minds of the generations to come after them. It was the function of St. Augustine to sum up in himself the chief characteristics of the vast spiritual and intellectual changes that accompanied the dissolution of the Roman Empire. He it was, more than any one else, who impressed upon public and private life that ecclesiastical form which it was to wear until the Middle Ages had run their course. In Voltaire we have the living embodiment of Vol. 180.-No. 359. B the |