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 RECENT FOREIGN LITERATURE. 279 Dans les Palais des Rois. Recits d'histoire d'apres des documents inedits. Par Ernest Daudet. Deals 'en marge d'histoire' with negledled aspects of such events as the murder of Paul I of Russia in 1801, the assassina- tion of Gustavus III of Sweden in 1792, and the death of the Duke of Orleans in 1842. Nicolas Poussin. Premier peintre du roi, 1 594- 1665. Documents inedits, suivi d'un catalogue raisonne et accompagne de la reproduction de 145 de ses tableaux et dessins, et de deux portraits autographes. A most sumptuous volume with beautiful illustrations. Un comedien d'autrefois 1750-1822. Par Jean de Bourgogne. The life and career of the a6lor Fleury, of the Com6die Franaise. x Hohenzollernbriefe aus den Freiheitskriegen 1813-15. Herausgegeben von Herman Granier. The original letters, written by the two princes who were afterwards Kings of Prussia, and their sister Charlotte, afterwards Empress of Russia, when their respective ages were 17^, 16, and 13^, are in the royal Prussian Hausarchiv, and are published by permission of the Kaiser. They reveal an affectionate family life, and refledl the opinions on public ^affairs that prevailed at the Prussian Court of the time. Historisch-politische Aufsatze und Reden. 2 vols. Von Hermann Oncken. Essays and speeches that even when they deal with the past have a bearing on contemporary problems, and lift them out of the region of party politics. There is an interesting notice of Lord Haldane's pamphlet ' Higher Nationality,' and from the more literary point of view, the essays on the political side of Freytag's work and the sketch of Bismarck's friend, Graf Alexander von Keyserling, are worth some study. ELIZABETH LEE.