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    more A than writer thirty in Le years Temps "the book states s most that read during in - _ r """ i . _ i * n ^ ¦ ¦¦ - _» _ v •¦ _ v _

    France were the ' Three _ Musketeers , ' by Alexander Revolution Dumas and the , and the c History of the

    and Empire ' , ' by Louis ' History Adolphe of Thiers the Consulate . ¦ HB " ¦ i ¦¦ ————————

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    1 - 1 r 11 - — ' ~ ' __ career The of writer the grand gives little some man particulars , who began of the by

    Minister being an historian of State , and and distinguished politician , then himself became so much mn p . Ti m in his Tiia later latfti * vftarfl as s * . a li head fta . d or of the the govern srovern - -

    ment of the National years Defence and in suppressing of the the historian terrible Commune statesman . To and the patriot memory a

    momjtment was recentl , y inaugurated , in the Cennjetery of Pere Lachaise .

    Lecomte So little and confident Dureyof were the the success publishers of the ,

    , the * History publication of the was Revolution first submitted ' when to the them plan by of

    M author . Thiers that , and they so little insisted was on then the known name of of the a

    well « a - known , but ^ . now forgotten ^ m a . L writer A * of histori ^ V Aft ^ - cal sumniaries being placed on the title-page .

    with ' The the firs names t - two | of volumes Felix Bodin appeared and A in . Thiers 1823 b ,

    V V ^ b ^^^^ b ^^^* i < ftk ^^ r ^ h » A ^ , w ^ ^ ^ f r ^ f ^^^ ^^ ^^ W ^ AA * 4 ^ 0 *^^ ^^ r ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ r ^*^^ ^ ' ^ . ^ v ^^^ ^ m ^^^ ^^^^>* ^^ ^ sr r ^^ as the authors . They were well received , but were not nearly so well written as the sequel .

    The comparative tameness of these two volumes is explained by the fact that when

    Thiers undertook the difficult task of writing his of the history subject he had But but the an imperfect success of knowled the 4 -first k ge '

    instalment *^ ^^ - ^^^^^^ -P ^^ W * iv ^ ¦ ^ made ^ ^^ V . him V ^ ^ r l ^^ a known ^ ^^ p ^ ^^» ^^ ^^ , n » p and ^^ ' * w ' «¦¦ broug w •« - ^ - ^^ v ^ v ht -w ^ . ; him in contact with men who had beenactors

    in the events he had to narrate , and gave , him access artf » fisfl to +, n documents rlfwnTnp . nta and nnc \ R ( State +. a . tft na . nfira which "whiifth

    threw a new light on the Revolution papers . It was , however contemporary , the events interest and that the distrust Thiers insp took ired in

    a . ' , M _ a ' _ ma iAariBi B K ft # ¦ Ministry in him - by * under the — retrograde Charles ^ policy X . in of 1824 ^ a the Villel which ^ ^^ e

    gave that spirit and interest to the , history which all the patient JT study •/ and verification of

    dry facts could never have given . Of late Thiers has found fewer

    readers , and years some learned writers have sought to depreciate his great work because of a few

    errors in it ; while they themselves hesitate to undertake writing a new history until all the

    documents relating to the Revolution have been W ^^ ^ BT ^^* m * ¦ ¦ printed L M ^* ^ B * **> ^ Bb tfBb ^^ ^^ # ^^ Hl ¦ b W ^^ y the ^ V ^* OM ^ . ^ * State ^^^ ^ # % S ^ ^^ ^ . ^ . ^ As * " * ^^ V V ^^ « it B ^ «^ 'M is ¦ f . calculated ^ l ^ Bjl B ¦ * ~^| BP «^ BJ « ' b Pi V ^ V ^ ^ i ^« V

    that these State papers would fill fifty thousand tractors volu mes THk , it seems not live lik to ely make that even M . Thiers a beginning ' s

    deof BV * B « ' «* l By -W the ^ ^ ^^ ^^ * r- faultless may ^^ rV V W « pBft - ^^ "B * history # »¦ B ^ T ^»* ^ ^^ IB th . P *^^ ey ^^^ ^^ wish ^ B ^ ^ B ^ PBJ ^ H » ^^ W to ^^ ^^ p p- H ^ lace ^ ^ * -m ^ m B ^ «^ ^ BF ^ " in ^ -p ^ pm the hands of the public !

    The second volume of the * Memoires de the Louise Michel . Louise r , ' the Michel femal bi e is Communisb writ i / it ing a series rf , is in of

    tales ^ ir r ^ " » ^ H ^^^ press v ^ * under ^ ^^^ r ^^ r % ^ K ^ VJi the w ^™ * A b ^^^ w » title <¦» w ^ % ^ _ « r ^ K ibit v ^ of ^^ ^ mb - * bb . b ^ the bm ^ . »_ « bb i * B » r ^^ Red ^^^^^^ w V «^ w - ¦ ^ i ^ » . Series fcfikWBk _^ m d ^» ^ w v « . ^ b ^ *^^ *^ ^* The ^^ r l ^^^ r dA ^ r ^ M ^ r w ^ a first « W * l ^ ¦ * read ^ -m ^ V-TW volume -VW y J appeared B >/ 1 ^ M ^^ , -- ^ f called « BI ^» T * ¦ B » . Bf In g «^ * « Bj O Microbes ^ this « r ^ Bh ^^ rf ^ B ^ p series V ^ - ^^ ^ * 1 B » ^^ humaines " F the V ^^ V / fBR ~^|^ V authoress ^ VT W ^ ^^ < B » ^ B , ' ^ Bj . has ^ i ^ - r ** t *^

    takes for her characters all the most disagreeable of societ i peop and le sends 1 imag 4 Ba them inab BJAff le to , so found -called a victims colony .

    at ^¦^ ^** the m *^ ^>^ - ^^ a * Bj ^ North ^ v ^ y w , m ^^ p ^ ** BBa Pole ^^ 1 H p ^*^ b * t «« !— ^^^ r ^ ' a * d *> consummation ^ f ^^ ^^ ^ X ^ ^ b * ^ . ^ ^ V ^ ^ v , , « fr ^ . Ote » for i ^^ ^^* ^^ such ^ ar ^^ ^«^ b / v beings devoutly to be wished by society .

    Literary On Thursday Congress 1 , the of 16 the th ult Netherlands ., the twentieth

    com-II «¦ ^^ ^* ^^ BUBJP ^^ » " ^^ - ^^ " ^^ K MK * BJ » ^ fc ^ r ^^ f ^^ " ^^ . . B *^ PBJ ^ M «^ b' Bl ^^ ^^ i ^ B ^^ Pl BB . ^^ bI ^ B ^ ^¦^ W # BJ ^ Bj ^^^ K ^ ^ iBT ^«^ * " ^ ^ menced the VJ Burgomaster its sittings B 1 of Bk , under Amsterdam d A A the presidency , where IA IS the of ^^ ««« « . ^^ .. ^ ^ . -

    attended Congress , ei was ghty held of whom . JSix cam hundred e from Flanders delegates .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1887, page 1090, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101887/page/44/