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VII.

The standard authority upon the Inquisition.--Philadelphia Ledger.

HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES. By HENRY CHARLES LEA. To be completed in THREE VOLUMES. 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $3 00 per volume. Vols. I. and II. _now ready_. Vol. III. _nearly ready_.

_Characterized by the same astounding reach of historical scholarship as made Mr. Lea's "Sacerdotal Celibacy" the wonder of European scholars. But it seems even to surpass his former works in judicial repose and in the mastery of materials.... Of Mr. Lea's predecessors no one is so like him as Gibbon._--Sunday-School Times, _Philadelphia_.