Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 1, 1845, vol. 1, no. 5, p. ??

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LITERARY NOTICES.

APPLETON’S HISTORICAL LIBRARY. History of France, from the earliest period to the present time. By M. Michelet. Translated by G. H. Smith, F.G.S. D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway. No. 1, pp. 158. Price 25 cents.

The merits of Michelet, as a historical writer, are too universally well known to require any commendation at this time. The need of a work like this has long been felt among English readers, and the American publishers have conferred an obligation upon the public by the issue of this marvellously cheap edition of a desirable work. The present number contains 158 pages in double columns of neatly printed matter. The end of the second book, included in this number, reaches to the time of Hugh Capet, and the third begins with a geographical picture of France. This cannot fail to be a profitable publication, for even though the publisher should reap no profit from it, the public will. We have but one charge to prefer against the publication. It does not inform us where the translation was made. It may be inferred from the absence of any note of copyright that it is republished from an English edition; but it is an inference which we have no right to draw.