Book Notes and Byways.

This article presents information on the "biography and iconography," a certain number of official and unpublished papers and a bibliography, of "Francisco de Miranda," which form the contents of a volume of nearly 200 octavo pages, by author Count O'Kelly. The story of Miranda is recounted at length, in its proper setting of time and place, in the volume published in 1812 by the lamented Jules Mancini on "Bolivar and the Emancipation of the Spanish Colonies" This work of original research, the completest yet published, reaches only to 1815, and it is to be feared that no one will be found to utilize the materials which the author was gathering at the moment of his death for a concluding volume.