Irish

Quarterly Review.

VOL. VII.

DUBLIN:

W. B. KELLY, 8, GRAFTON-STREET.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO.

M. T. GASSON, 139, ELIZABETH-STREET, MELBOURNE.

TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

1857.

THE

IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. XXV. MARCH, 1857.

VOL. VII.

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE.

I.-ODD PHASES IN LITERATURE. Third Paper:-

1. Mémoire sur l'ancienne Chevalerie.

2. Essais d'Honneur.

3. Histoire du Drapeau.

II.-BALDWIN, FIRST FRENCH EMPEROR OF CON-

STANTINOPLE:-

Baudoin IX. Comte de

Flandre, pre-

mier Empereur Romain de Constantinople.

Drame historique en cinq, Actes, precede de

considerations historiques, politiques, et litte-

raires d'une interessante actualite. Par Julien le

Rousseau, Paris: 1856.

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III.-SUICIDE; ITS MOTIVES AND MYSTERIES :-

Recherches sur les Opinions et la Legislation en

Matière de Mort Volantaire Pendent le Moyen

Age. Par M. H. Bourquelot. Paris: 1840. 49

IV. THE IRISH POOR LAW:-

A History of the Irish Poor Law, in Con-

nexion with the Condition of the People. By

Sir George Nicholls, K.C.B., late Poor

Law Commissioner, and Secretary to the

Poor Law Board. London: John Mur-

ray, Albemarle-street; Knight and Co., 90,

Fleet-street. 1856.

V.-THE FRENCH OPERA AT PARIS:-

1. Petits Mémoires de l'Opéra. Par Charles de

Boigne. Paris, 1857.

2. Histoire du Théatre de l'Académie Royale de

Musique en France. A Paris, 1757.

3. Musical History, Biography and Criticism, by

George Hogarth, 2 Vols. London, 1838.

4. Memoirs of the Opera, by George Hogarth.

Richard Bentley, London, 1851.

VI.-MACAULAY A HISTORIAN.- How not TO DO

IT:-

The History of England from the Accession of

James the II., By Thomas Babington Macaulay.

Vols. I. to IV. London: Longmans.

VII. THE ENGLISH FOLLY FORT-THE CHURCH Es-

TABLISHMENT IN IRELAND :-

1. Tracts of the British Anti-State Church Asso-

ciation. London: Cockshaw, 1857.

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2. A proposal for Religious Equality in Ireland,

and for a Charitable Settlement of the Irish

Church Question. Addressed to his Constitu

ents by William Shee, Sergeant-at-Law, M.P.

for the County of Kilkenny. Dublin: Richard-

son, 1857.

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