Letters on the War. (Trilbnor.)—In this little volume, published, wo
may remark, for the benefit of the "Victoria Institute for Providing for the Widows and Orphans of the Gorman Soldiers," are contained several letters which are well worthy of a permanent shape. Our readers will recollect Dr. Strauss' "Lotter to the People of France," a translation of which appeared in the Daily News, and Mr. Carlyle's vehement indict- ment of French ambition and vanity, addressed to the Times, as well as the series of letters in which Professor Max Muller defended the Gorman cause against " Scrutator." These the reader will find hero. He will also see what is less known in England, certain letters addressed to Italian nowspapors by Theodor Mommsen. Thoso, it is needless to say, are remarkably interesting. But how curious it is that so able a man should bo able to persuade himself that Prussia is innocent of ambition and the love of aggrandizement I Fancy this said of a Court which has grown in the course of less than two centuries from a fifth-rate State to the first Power in Europe ; and grown, unless she is grossly maligned, by an unscrupulousness almost without parallel I
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