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first volume, is an international one, eminent scholars belonging to all nation- 

 alities having consented to take part in it. 



Old Bibles. An Account of the Early Versions of the English 

 Bible. By J. R. Dore. Second Edition. Small 8vo, pp. xvi. — 395. (London: 

 Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1888.) 



The author gives an account of Tyndale's New Testament ; Tyndale's 

 Pentateuch ; Sir John Cheke's Version ; Coverdale's, Matthew's, Taverner's, 

 and the Greek Bibles; Whittingham's New Testament ; The Geneva Version ; 

 The Bishop's Bible and New Testament ; The Rheims and Douai Version ; 

 and King James's Version. In the Appendixes we have the Preface to King 

 James's Bible of 161 1 ; Notes on Welsh Bibles ; An Early English Version of 

 the Epistle to the Laodiceans ; and a list of English Billies and Testaments in 

 the author's collection. At the end of the book are also a facsimile of map in 

 Coverdale's Bible, 1535, and copies of title pages and specimen pages from the 

 same and other old Bibles. 



Introduction to the Study of Philosophy. By J. H, 



\V. Stuckenberg, D.D. 8vo, pp. viii. — 422. (New Vork : A. C. Armstrong 

 and Sons. 1888.) 



This work is intended to be simply what is implied by the title, and every- 

 thing has been adapted to this specific aim ; we are told in the preface that it 

 is not an encyclopaedia, nor is it intended as an introduction to any particular 

 philosophical system, but to the study of philosophy itself. The book was 

 written for students and others who desire to prepare themselves for philoso- 

 phic pursuits. 



Modern Science and Modern Thought. By S. Laing. 



Sixth Edition. Containing a supplemental chapter on Gladstone's " Dawn of 

 Creation" and " Proem of Genesis," and on Drummond's "Natural Law in the 

 Spiritual World." 8vo, pp. xiii. — 370. (London : Chapman and Hall. 1889.) 

 Price 3s. 6d. 



The object of the book before us is to give a clear and concise view of the 

 principal results of Modern Science, and of the revolutions they have effected 

 in Modern Thought. It is a book full of interest ; the first section of the work 

 treats of Space, Time, Matter, Life, Antiquities of Man, and Man's Place in 

 Creation. The second portion of the work deals more with the author's own 

 reflections on the various subjects discussed. The supplemental chapter covers 

 59 pages, and is a critique on the three books mentioned on the title page. 



Corona : The Bright Side of the Universe. Studies in 

 Optimism. By F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S. Crown 8vo, pp. viii. — 190. (London: 

 Williams and Norgate. Leicester : J. and T. Spencer. 1888.) 



The author dedicates his book to " The Grand Old Statesman, whose 

 career bears such emphatic witness to the continuous evolutions of the human 

 soul," etc. He says he has not set forth a complete body of philosophy, but has 

 endeavoured to put light into a number of dark subjects in a popular and 

 suggestive way. We have read every word of this book, but confess we cannot 

 understand it all. Chap. II. on "Man" commences, "Man is not a 

 Mammal. He cannot be more nearly related to the monkey than the 5000th 

 cousin ; probably he is not so nearly related as the lizanl is to the bird," etc. 



