III.-1. A Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church being a new inquiry into the true dates of the birth and death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, &c. By the Rev. Samuel Farmar Jarvis, D.D., LL.D. 2. Ordo Sæclorum. A Treatise on the Chronology of the IV.-The Principles of Political Economy; with some Inquiries respecting their application, and a Sketch of the Rise and V. On the means of rendering more efficient the Education of I.-1. Procès de Condamnation et de Réhabilitation de Jeanne D'Arc, dite la Pucelle, publiés pour la première fois d'après les Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale, suivis de tous les documents historiques qu'on a pu réunir, et accompagnés de notes et d'éclaircissements. Par Jules 2. Jeanne d'Arc, Trilogie Nationale. Par Alexandre Soumet, 3. The Maid of Orleans. A romantic tragedy, translated from the German of Friedrich Von Schiller. 4. Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller. ART. 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HISTORY-a charming songstress in her youthful days, Clio gesta canens, clothing in sweet minstrelsy her legendary lore, and in her maturer years a stately dame, slow and careful in gathering her stores of knowledge, and grave in her delivery-has of late caught the infection of the times, travelling onwards with railroad speed, snatching up her information as she flies along, and dealing it out again as rapidly as she collects it, in journals and pamphlets without number, which she scatters in every direction to mark her passage. How should it be otherwise? The hurricane of changes that is sweeping over the world, leaves no time for reflection: events which formerly would have been spread over a succession of ages, are now crowded into the brief space of a single life. The fashion of our progress through time is as much altered, as that of our progress through space by the substitution of the lengthened train for the compact stage-coach, and the hissing locomotive for the team of neighing steeds. A day's journey on the top of a well-appointed, fast coach-a vulgar incident of life some years ago-has now become a kind of oasis of bygone pleasantness for memory to dwell upon; how prancingly VOL. VI.-NO. XI.-SEPT. 1846. B the showy cattle of the first and the last stages did their work, as if it were mere play to them; how at the foot of some steep ascent the passengers alighted, some to ease the horses and others to stretch their legs; how over the level plain, and over hill and dale the coach rolled merrily onward, turning the country into a vast panorama with shifting scenes, of which the living guidebook on the coach-box did the honours; and how, arrived at his journey's end, the traveller might, if he was so inclined, sit down and, while he sipped his tea, transfer to his note-book the impressions he had received and the pictures he had collected in his mind as he passed along. There was a pleasure, too, and plenty of fun, in marking the characteristic differences of the conveyances in different countries: the Diligence with its two rows of three horses abreast, its heavy-booted postilion, and its conductor à la militaire, who, if you took your seat in the impériale, would shorten the journey with stories of the grand capitaine and his campaigns; the Eilwagen (like its French namesake lucus a non lucendo) with its unicorn team, and its discordant sounds of cracking whip and blowing horn and tausend Donnerwetter; the Hauterer or Vetturino with his raw-boned hacks crawling at a snail's pace over the road, destroying the poetry of travel by the intrusive homeliness of his discourse, and the balmy sweetness of the air by the insufferable stench of his canaster. All these are fast passing away from the face of the earth, with their expressive features of varying nationality; and in their place, whithersoever you direct your journey, whether you travel in Belgium or in France, in Italy or in Germany, or in good Old England, there is, or shortly will be, with hardly any perceptible difference, the broad, well-cushioned railroad-carriage, in which you stow yourself away like a piece of living luggage, to be hurled at a pace which does not permit your eye to rest on a single object, through dark tunnels under the hills, and on ugly banks across the valleys, where the happier traveller of former years feasted his eye on the beauteous face of nature; and when you have reached your destination, you know no more of the country through which you have passed, than what may be gathered from the railroad bill which you obtained at the terminus along with your ticket. And even so it is with our progress through time: the leisure of contemplation which our fathers enjoyed, while they acted their part on the world's stage, is not vouchsafed to their busier and, for that very reason, not wiser sons. Men are driven along as by the pressure of a crowd from behind, which leaves them no time to stop and consider whither they are going; those that are in the front ranks, and supposed from their position to direct the movement, find it a hard matter to keep on their legs, and to pre |