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 278 RECENT FOREIGN LITERATURE. race or nation, but to that which is the most learned, the most industrious, and the most moral. The essay should be read and studied by students of contemporary questions and emanations. The following recently published books deserve attention : Au courant de la vie. Par Camille Saint-Saens. Slight pleasantly written sketches on musicians (Rameau, Gounod, Sarasate) and kindred subjects. Nouvelles Feminites. Par Marcel Prevost. Sketches connected with women and questions affecting them. Bernhard Crespel Goethes Jugendfreund nach ungedruckten Briefen und Urkunden aus dem Frankfurter Goethekreise. Von Wilhelm Hertz. A find of unprinted documents, letters, etc., with drawings by Goethe. It was Crespel who told Hoffmann the tales that form the libretto of Offenbach's opera * Les Comes d'Hoffman.' Caroline Pichler, geborne Von Greiner. Denk- wiirdigkeiten aus meinen Leben 1769-1843. 2 vols. A new, elaborate, annotated edition by Emil Karl Blumml of memoirs that give an excellent picture of life in old Vienna. Danton. Par Louis Madelin. A new biography of one of the most striking of the * figures du passeeV L'Amiral Coligny. Par A. Olivet. A brief resume", by the pastor of the Church of Geneva, of the larger biographies of this ' heios de la foi,' intended more espe- cially for younger readers.