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- rsr OF EDWARD THE BLACK ParNcE, by g. P. r.
gh.Mss Esq From the second edition. voss Carey
Hart Wiley < Putnam, Ncw-York.


Nc rank Mr.. James much higher as historian
i, as novelist. His romances indeed seem to


roduced chiefly from his desire to display his


.o,ical learning, and his characters are general
,;rls more than puppets set up to show of the
H.. of his researches. In a knowledge of the
T.;ls of the history of France in the feudal ages


+ perhaps rnrivaled, and no one could have
l.a found more competent to detail the invasion
Ibo, country by Edward, the Black Prince, end
.mher incidents in the career of that flower OF
ivalry. With bis life is graphically depicted the
r.a.ion Of Europe at that era, aud this true his
:, has all the vivid cooring and the absorbing


,.e,t of romance. The result could hardly be
,berwise when Mr.. James had undertaken to mar
10 the chvalric career of Prince whom he de-


rbes as combining i'll his own person all the


blsr qualities and few of the vices which are sup.
s,.d to have characterized the days of knight
ol. brave yet gentle, skilful yet modest, an af-
s,,ionats and unyarying friend, master easily
r,ea. generous adversary, a Prince at once dig
lied and gracious, leaving behind him All un-
lined character and reputation for rnildness
h humanity established by a thousand instances
l forbearance and mercy"