"The two millions of young men who are now beginning to read and to reflect form the great link that unites our beginning with our destiny. From them will come all we hope for, and all we fear. To them I confide these Histories, and I do it with unshaken confidence, for I will not believe they will ever suffer the broad fields of our virgin soil to be pressed by the tyrant's foot, they will not suffer this glorious continent, where the hunted spirit of Freedom has taken shelter, ever to be given up to the spoiler."

Such spasms as these, it was indeed a merciful act to bring to a speedy termination. The translator presents us with the following picture of Machiavelli's History upon its travels.

"These records have slowly travelled from the sweet vale of the Arno to the hot banks of the Ganges and the frozen base of the Ural, from the silver sands (?) of the Guadalquivir to the clear lakes of Scotland. We now commit them to the keeping of that New World discovered by Machiavelli's friend and neighbour; and in a few weeks they will be read by our brothers in the deep woods beyond the Mississippi, and along the garden banks of the Sabine."

The reading public, we have no doubt, on the garden banks of the Sabine is about equally numerous with that at the frozen base of the Ural. But does Mr. Lester suppose that the Florentine Histories never before appeared in the New World?

Mr. Lester dedicates. Nor are his dedications merely inscriptions, briefly and simply significant of respect or affection. They are quite elaborate. For this species of composition we confess we have no relish. It is artificial, ostentatious, sometimes insincere, and often grossly selfish. The thing being granted, we find no particular fault with the dedication of Ceba's work. That of Machiavelli's Histories, dated "Genoa, Palazzo Lomellini, Strada Balbi," is in a ridiculously fulsome and swollen vein. In comparing this last with that by Machiavelli himself, which follows it, we are struck with the truth of Mr. Lester's remark, that "dedications have changed with the ages."

Though we have found no small reason to complain of Mr. Lester for the imperfect manner in which he has executed his task, we deem it but justice to him to own, that he seems to have undertaken it with an honest wish to incite his young

countrymen to the study of these excellent works, and to furnish them with the means of pursuing it. In his notes and prefaces, he manifests a desire to raise the tone of thought and sharpen the sense of duty among his fellow-citizens. We would commend him to a more prudent estimate of his own resources, and, in his future translations, to a scrupulous avoidance of all foreign works about which he finds "a scholastic air."

ERRATUM.

On page 44 of this volume (N. A. Review for January, 1846), in the sentence quoted from Professor Stuart, 7th line from the bottom, for passive read jussive. The sentence will then be read as follows: "Professor Stuart, of Andover, thinks the Hebrew for shall be shed' is 'the most jussive form which the language admits.'"

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