The New Monthly Magazine Volume 68 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...With the convocation of the States-general, so soon to be known by the more formidable name of the National Assembly, the ' History of Our Own Times" properly begins, and with it, the storm that shook Europe to her centre. And in the pages of the author, we see the gradual, and slow, but certain development of that fearful tragedy, of which the destruction of the Bastille, and the massacre of the garrison completed the first act; while the return of the king as a prisoner to Paris, may be considered as the second. The same impartiality marks this portion of the work as the former, and is a pledge of the writer's accuracy;.and we therefore follow him through the fearful detail of rapine and murder, assured that we have a safe and a conscientious guide. The execution of the unfortunate Louis, the insurrection in St. Domingo, and the partition of Poland, close the present volume; and interested as we have been with this, we look forward with increased interest to the succeeding ones, well assured that the writer who has so ably painted the stirring and fearful scenes to which we have just referred, is well qualified to delineate the still more stirring; scenes which followed. THE SEINE, THE MOSELLE, THE RHINE, AND THE NECKAR. Although a very different book, both in its objects and results from the admirable one of Victor Hugo which we have just noticed, these " Steam Voyages" of Mr. Quin belong to the same class of work, and perform their useful and pleasant office very efficiently. Their object is to afford rapid sketches, personal, picturesque, social, national, and occasionally historical and antiquarian, of the various scenes, cities, localities, modes of life, and other materials for observation, study, or amusement, which present...