CONTENTS OF No. XCI. 1. The Roman Question under the First Empire.-From New Documents. (Correspondance de Napoléon. Vol. xi. à xx. Paris. Mémoires du Cardinal Consalvi. Publiés par J. CRETINEAU-JOLY. 2 vols. Paris.) 1. The Book of Job. Translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the Authorised Version; explained by a large body of notes, critical and exegetical; and illustrated by extracts from various works on Anti- quities, Geography, Science, &c., with Six Preliminary Dissertations, &c. By the Rev. CARTERET PRIAULX CAREY, Incumbent of St. John's, 2. A Commentary, Grammatical and Exegetical, on the Book of Job; with a translation. By the Rev. A. B. DAVIDSON, M.A., Hebrew Tutor [now Professor] New College, Edinburgh. Vol. I. London. 3. Biblical Commentary on the Book of Job. By F. DELITZSCH, D.D., Professor of Theology. Translated by the Rev. F. R. POLTON, B.A., 1. The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse. With a Memoir by IZAAK WALTON. London: Bell & Daldy. 1861. 2. The Christian Year. Sixty-first Edition. Oxford: Parker. 1859. 3. The Psalter in English Verse. Oxford: Parker. 1839. 4. Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in Verse. Fourth Edition. Oxford. 5. The "Times." Article, 'The Late John Keble.' April 6, 1866. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England. By JAMES E. THOROLD ROGERS, M. A., Professor of Political Economy in the University of VII. Reform and the State of Parties 1. Essays on Reform. London: Macmillan. 2. Questions for a Reformed Parliament. London: Macmillan. 3. Speeches on Parliamentary Reform. By the Right Hon. B. DISRAELI. 76067 Life, Letters, and Speeches of Lord Plunket. Froude's Short Studies on Great Subjects. Sebohm's Oxford Reformers of 1498. Marquis of Lorne's Trip through the Tropics, and Home through America. Esquiros's Religious Life in England. Hosier's Seven Week's War: its Antecedents and its Incidents. Bunsen's Egypt's Place in Uni- versal History. Pritchard's Polynesian Reminiscences. Aveling's Memorials of the Clayton Family. Life of the Rev. William Marsh, D.D. Memorials of James Henderson, M.D. Stanley's Passages from the Autobiography of a 'Man of Kent.' Politics, Science, and Art.-Bagehot's English Constitution. Thomson's Poetry, Fiction, and Belles Lettres.-Dallas's Gay Science. Hesperidum Susiorri. Green's Aristophanes: the Acharnians and Knights. Arnold on the Study of Celtic Literature. The Village on the Cliff. Mr. Wynyard's Ward. Alec's Bride. Macdonald's Dealings with the Faries. A Quiet Nook in the Jura. Locker's Lyra Elegantiarum. Webster's A Woman Sold and other Poems. Jewitt's Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire. Punshon's Sabbath Chimes. Palgrave's Original Hymns. Macduff's Curfew Chimes. Worboise's Hymns and Songs for the Christian Church. Smith's Hymns of Christ. Gushington's Theology, Philosophy, and Philology.-Hurst's History of Rationalism. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. JULY 1, 1867. ART I. The Roman Question under the First Empire.-From CRETINEAU-JOLY. 2 vols. Paris.) 1864. THE Roman question presented itself under the first Empire in a form perfectly different from that which it assumes in the present day. It was not then a conflict between theocracy and the independence of a nation. Liberty had nothing to do with it; the rights of the Romans were the last things which Napoleon thought of; and far from seeing, with all the friends of Italy, in the temporal power of the Pope, an insurmountable obstacle to the unity and independence of that great nation, he fought against it and destroyed it, merely because he found it a barrier against the total subjection of the Peninsula to his yoke. The power of the Holy Father had, doubtless, then as now, all the inconveniences inseparable from a sacerdotal government. It was a worm-eaten edifice, which was kept together only by the most unintelligent conservatism; for if an attempt was made to repair only a single wall, there was instant danger that the whole structure would come down with a crash. But the great difference between its position at the commencement of the century and at the present time, is, that then it was tolerated by the Italian people, who had not been aroused, as they have been since, but were content with this degrading government, preferring the profits accruing to the guardians of a museum to the noble responsibilities of a free nation. The temporal papacy was not forced on them, for the riots which at times caused blood to flow in the streets of Rome were begun at the instigation of foreign agents. There is one fact which proves NO. XCI. B |