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Epochs of History. Edited by Morris. In course of 

 publication. (Ib.) 



Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea. Battle of 

 Inkerman. (Harpers.) 



A Short History of the English People. By J. R. 

 Green. (Ib.) 



Forster' s Life of Jonathan Swift. Vol.1. (Ib.) 



Early Kings of Norway. By T. Carlyle. (Ib.) 



Macready's Eeminiscences. Edited by Sir F. 

 Pollock. (Ib.) 



Life of Lord Byron, and other Sketches. By Cas- 

 telar. (Ib.) 



Earl Russell's Recollections and Suggestions. 

 (Roberts.) 



Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher. (Ib.) 



Musical Composers and their Lives. By Sarah 

 Tytler. (Ib.) 



The History of Lawyers. By William Forsyth. 

 (Cockcroft.) 



Autobiography and Memoir of Dr. Thomas Guth- 

 rie. (Carters.) 



The Epworth Singers and other Poets of Method- 

 ism. By Rev. S. W. Christophers. (Randolph.) 



The abridgment of the literature of recent 

 and contemporary memoirs in the a Bric-a- 

 Brac Series," edited by Richard H. Stoddard 

 (Scribner), has proved a popular undertaking, 

 and by the skill of the editor the time of readers 

 has been saved, at no loss of interest. The usual 

 discursiveness and minuteness of personal me- 

 moirs afford scope for j udicious condensation. 



Works of travel and exploration have a high 

 place in international regard : 



India and its Native Princes. By Louis Rousselet. 



Edited by Lieutenant Buckle. Copiously illus- 



trated. (Scribner.) 



Assyrian Discoveries. By George Smith. (Ib.) 

 The Last Journals of Dr. Livingstone. (Harpers.) 

 The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China. 



By J. Thomson. Illustrated. (Ib.) 

 The Abode of Snow. By Andrew Wilson. (Put- 



nams.) 

 Notes of Travel in Southwestern Africa. By C. 



J. Anderson. (Ib.) 



Twelve Months in aagas 

 lens, D. D., of the London Missionary Society. 



. . . 



Twelve Months in Madagascar. By Joseph Mul- 



(Carters.) 



In the Holy Land. By Rev. Andrew Thomson, 

 D. D., F. R. S. E., etc. (Randolph.) 



The Amazon and Madeira Rivers. By Franz Kel- 

 ler. (Lippincott.) 



Days near Rome. By Augustus J. C. Hare. 

 (Coates.) 



Spain and the Spaniards. By N. L. Thieblin. 

 (Lee & Shepard.) 



Of religious reprints we find the following 

 noticeable : 



Strivings for the Faith. Christian Evidence So- 

 ciety Lectures. (Randolph.) 



Fireside Homilies. By the late Dean Henry Al- 

 ford, D.D. (Ib.) 



The Philosophy of Natural Theology. An Essay 

 in Confutation of the Skepticism of the Present Day, 

 which obtained a prize at Oxford. By the Rev. Wil- 

 liam Jackson, M. A., F. S. A. (Ib.) 



Rome and the Newest Fashions in Religion. By 

 W. E. Gladstone. (Harpers.) 



Mohammed and Mohammedanism. By R. Bos- 

 worth Smith, M. A. (Ib.) 



Home Truths. By the Rev. J. C. Ryle. (Carters.) 



Earth's Morning -or, Thoughts on Genesis. By 

 Horatius Bonar, D. D. (Ib.) 



The Rent Veil. By H. Bonar, D. D. (Ib.) 



Types and Emblems. By C. H. Spurgeon. (Shel- 

 don.) 



The " Speaker's Commentary." Vol.V. (Scrib- 

 ner.) 



The Bible Educator. Edited by E. H. Plumptre, 

 M. A. (Dutton.) 



Glimpses of the Supernatural. Edited by the Rev. 

 Frederick George Lee, D. C. L. (Carlton.) 



God and the Bible. By Matthew Arnold. (Os- 

 good.) 



Thoughts on Revelation. By J. McLeod Camp- 

 bell. (Claxton.) 



A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book 

 of Psalms. By James G. Murphy, LL. D. (Draper, 

 Andover.) 



The Temperance Reformation, and its Claims upon 

 the Christian Church. By the Rev. James Smith, of 

 Scotland. (Lothrop.) 



In poetry the importation is not large. But 

 it is of the best that is to be had : 



Queen Mary. By Tennyson. (Osgood.) 



The ^Eneids of Virgil. Done into English Verse. 

 By William Morris. (Roberts.) 



Dante and his Circle : with the Italian Poets pre- 

 ceding Him. A Collection of Lyrics. Edited and 

 translated in the Original Metres. By Dante Gabriel 

 Rossetti. (Ib.) 



The Shepherd Lady, and other Poems. By Jean 

 Ingelow. Illustrated. (Ib.) 



Aristophanes's Apology. By Robert Browning. 

 (Osgood.) 



The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith [Robert 

 Lord Lytton]. (Ib.) 



Hymns. By Frederick William Faber,D. D. With 

 a Sketch of his Life. (Dutton.) 



The " Concordance to the Works of Alexan- 

 der Pope," by Edwin Abbott, with an Intro- 

 duction by Edwin A. Abbott, D. D. (Appleton), 

 is not poetry, but is the indispensable aid to 

 the enjoyment of a poet now rated by critics 

 as much below his worth as he was once rated 

 above it. This work may fitly intervene be- 

 tween the poets and the essayists : 



English Poets. Twelve Essays, with Photographs. 

 By Joseph Gostwick. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Poets and Novelists. By George Barnett Smith. 

 (Ib.) , 



Hours in a Library. By Leslie Stephens. (Scrib- 

 ner.) 



Social Pressure. By Sir Arthur Helps. (Roberts.) 



A Group of Poets and their Haunts. By James 

 Albert Harrison. (Kurd.) 



The Better Self. By J. Hain Friswell. (Porter & 

 Coates.) 



Lectures delivered in America. By Charles Kings- 

 ley. (Ib.) 



Thrift. By Samuel Smiles. (Harpers.) 



Sermons out of Church. By the Author of " John 

 Halifax." (Ib.) 



Among works on (and of) art should be men- 

 tioned : 



Our Sketching Club. By R. St. John Tyrwhitt. 

 (Roberts.) 



The Sylvan Year. Leaves from the Note-Book of 

 Raoul Dubois. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton. With 

 Twenty Etchings. (Ib.) 



Examples of Modern Etching, with Notes by P. 

 G. Hamerton. (Bouton.) 



The Aerial World. ByG. Hartwig. (D. Appleton 

 & Co.) 



Examples of Mediaeval Foliage and Colored Deco- 

 ration, taken from Buildings of the Twelfth to the 

 Fifteenth Century. With Descriptive Letter-press. 

 By James K. Collins. (Osgood.) 



Narrative of La Moyne, the -Artist who accompa- 

 nied the French Expedition into Florida in 1564. 

 From the Latin of De Bry. With Heliotypes of the 



