lost nearly onehalf of her European possessions.

neglect from which it has never fully recovered. However, it was during the reign of Philip V. that the Spanish Academy was established, which produced as one of its earliest works a Spanish dictionary-the standard of the language up to the present day.

BOOKS OF REFERENCE.

J. H. Burton's "The Reign of Queen | Sir Archibald Alison's "Life of J. Anne."

Churchill, Duke of Marlbor ough."

Van Laun's "History of French Literature."

James Parton's "Life of Voltaire" (1881).

"Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni," with an

Essay by W. D. Howells.

Burney's "Life of Metastasio, and
His Letters."

'Letters of Lady M. W. Montagu," | Ticknor's "History of Spanish Lit

CLASSICAL AGE OF POPE, ADDISON, AND SWIFT.