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I'rof. K. Max-Mliller, Ur. Richard Garnelt, C.B., Sir Hugh 

 I'lilzean-Reicl, F. K. Baines, K. VV. MaundL-r, R. Bannister, and 

 many other Expert Writers, edited by James Samuelson, ilhis- 

 traled ; "Joseph Thomson, African Explorer: a Biography, 

 by his brother, the Rev. J. B. Thomson, illustrated ; " Twentieth 

 Century Practice : an International Encyclopaedia of Modern 

 -Medical Science," by Leading Authorities of Europe and 

 America, edited by Dr. Thomas L. Stedman, in twenty volumes, 

 l)ublished at quarterly intervals (vols. vii. to xx. in course of 

 preparation): " A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable 

 Fats and Oils : comprising both Fixed and Volatile Oils, their 

 Physical and Chemical Properties and Uses, the manner of 

 Extracting and Refining them, and Practical Rules for Testing 

 them, as well as the Manufacture of Artificial Butter, 

 Lubricants, including Mineral Lubricating Oils, iS:c., and on 

 Ozokerite, by William T. Brannt, two vols., second edition, illus- 

 trated : " Metallic Alloys : a Practical Guide to the Manufacture 

 of all kinds of Alloys, Amalgams and Solders used by Metal- 

 workers, especially by Bell- Founders, Bronze-Workers, Tin- 

 Smiths, (lold and Silver-Workers, Dentists, S:c., as well as their 

 Chemical and Physical Properties, edited chiefly from the 

 German," by A. Krupp and -Andreas Wildberger, new edition, 

 illustrated ; " Evening Talks at the Camera Club on the Action 

 of Light in Photography," by Captain W. de W. Abiiey, C.B., 

 I-'. R.S., illustrated ; "Short Studies in Physical Science," by 

 \'aughan Cornish, illustrated. 



In .Messrs. Sonnenschein and Co.'s announcements we find : — 

 " Text -Book of Pahcontology for Zoological Students," by 

 Theodore T. Groom, illustrated : " Text-Book of Embryology : 

 Invertebrates,' by Drs. Korschelt and Heider ; vol. ii. "Crus- 

 tacea and Arachnoids," translated and edited (with addition) by 

 Eric Pritchard ; " Problems of Biology," by George Sandeman : 

 " Practical Plant Physiology," by Prol. Wilhelm Detmer, trans- 

 lated by S. .'\. Moor ; " Introduction to the Study of Organic 

 Chemistry," by J. Wade; in the " Voung Collector Series,"' 

 " Fishes" and " Mammalia," by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson : 

 and " Birds' Eggs and Nests," by W. C. J. Ruskin Butterfield ; 

 " Premature Burial," by William Tebb and Colonel E. P. 

 X'ullum ; " Ethics," in two volumes, and " Physiological 

 Psychology," in two volumes, by Prof. W. Wundt, translated by 

 Prof. E. B. Titchener, illustrated; "Introduction to the Study 

 of Philosophy," by Prof. Oswald Kidpe, translated by W. B. 

 Pillsbury ; "The Evolution of the English House," by, Sidney 

 <). .Addy : "The Evolution of English Household Implements," 

 by Henry Balfour : "The Best Books," a reader's guide to the 

 choice of the best available books (about 50,000) in all depart- 

 ments of literature down to 1890, with the dates of the first and 

 last editions, and the price, size, and publisher's name of each 

 book, accompanied by numerous characterisations, biblio- 

 graphical notes, &c., third reprint of the second edition (stereo- 

 typed), with exhaustive indexes of both authors and subjects, by 

 William Swau Sonnenschein. 



The Clarendon Press firthcoming books include : — "A Cata- 

 logue of the Turkish, Hindustani, and Pushtu MSS. in the 

 liodleian Library," by H. Ethe ; Part II. — "A Catalogue of 

 ihe .Armenian MSS. in the Bodleian Library," by S. Baronian ; 

 ■• A Record of the Buddhist Practices in India and the Malay 

 -Archipelago" (a.D. 671-695), by I-Tsing, tran.slated and edited 

 by J. Takakusu ; " A Catalogue of the Fortnum Collection in 

 the Ashmolean Museum," by C. Drury E. F'ortnum ; "A 

 Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students," by Arthur Thomson, 

 illustrated ; " A Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Cyprus 

 Museum," by J. L. Myres ; "History of Agriculture and 

 Prices," by the late J. E. Thorold Rogers, vols. vii. and viii. ; 

 ■ ■ .A New English Dictionary," further portions of D, edited by 

 Dr. J. .A. H. Murray, and of F, edited by H. Bradley ; " Practical 

 Work in Light," and " Practical Work in Sound," by W. G. 

 Woollcombe ; "The 'Opus Majus' of Roger Bacon," edited 

 by J. H. Bridges, 2 vols. ; "British Moralists of the 

 Eighteenth Century," edited by L. -A. Selby-Bigge, 2 vols ; in 

 the series of "Sacred Books of the Ivist" : vol. xlii., " Hymns 

 of the -Atharva-Veda," translated by M. Bloomfield ; vol. xliii., 

 •■The ^atapatha-Brahmawa," translated by J. Eggeling, Part 

 HI. ; and vol. xlvi., " Vedic Hynms." translated by Y. Max 

 Miiller and H. (Jldenberg, Part II. : Part II. Fitdausi's Vusuf 

 and Zalikha, edited by H. Ethe ; KaHva 5atapatha Brahmawa, 

 edited by Dr. J. Eggeling : The Mantrapatha, edited by Dr. M. 

 Winternitz, Letters of Abul'Ala El Ma'arri, edited by D. S. 

 Margoliouth. 



Mr. U.K. Lewis's list is as follows: — "A Manual of Infectious 



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Diseases,"' by Drs. E. \V. (^ioodall and J. W. Washbourn ; " The 

 Disorders of Digestion in Infancy and Childhood," by Dr. W. 

 Soltiiu Fenwick ; " Compressed Air Illness, or so-called Caisson 

 Disease," by Dr. F). Hugh Snell;" Disease and Defective House 

 Sanitation," by Dr. W. H. Corfiekl ; " Notes on the More 

 Common Diseases of the Eye," with test-types, by Robert W. 

 Doyne ; "Section Cutting and Staining," by Dr. Walter S. 

 Colman, new edition ; " Lewis's Diet Charts, a set of diet tables 

 for the use of physicians "; " Handbook of Diseases of the Ear, 

 for the use of Students and Practitioners," by Dr. Urban 

 Pritchard, new edition, illustrated; "The Hydro- Fllectric 

 Methods in Medicine," by Dr. W. S. Hedley, new edition, 

 illustrated ; by the same author, " Current from the Main, the 

 Medical Employment of I'Uectric Lighting Currents"; "Re- 

 searches into the Anatomy and Pathology of the Eye," with 

 plates and figures, by E. 'Treacher Collins ; " What to Do in 

 Cases of PoLsoning," by Dr. William Murrell, new edition ; 

 "The Student's Medical Dictionary," edited by Dr. G. M. 

 Gould, tenth edition, re-written and enlarged. 



Messrs. Luzac and Co.'s announcements are : — " Luzac's 

 Semilic Text and Translation Series " — vol. i. , " The Laughable 

 Stories collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hehraeus," the Syriac 

 text with an English translation, by Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge : 

 "-Assyrian and Babylonian Letters belonging to the K Collec- 

 tion of the British Museum," by Robert Francis Harper, vols, 

 iii. and iv. ; " Tlie Tel el-Amarna Letters," translation and 

 transliteration by H. Winkler ; " Dictionary of the Targumin, 

 the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature," 

 compiled by Dr. M. Jastrow, part ix. ; " A Hebrew Syntax," by 

 J. D. Wijnkoop, translated from the Dutch by Rev. C. van den 

 Biesen ; "Grammar of the Modern Persian Language," with 

 dialogues and vocabulary, by F. Rosen ; " A Glossary of Indian 

 Terms relating to Religion, Customs, Manners, &c. ," by (j. 

 Temple ; " Ummagga Jataka," translated into English from the 

 Sinhalese," by J. B. Vatawara; " History of the Deccan," by 

 J. D. B. Gribble, vol. ii., 1723 to the present time; "The 

 Native States of India," by Jadab Chandra Chakrabarti ; 

 " Lombok (Dutch Indies)," by Cooland Hooyer, translated from 

 the Dutch by Elizabeth J. Taylor; "Guide to the Dutch 

 Indies," by Dr. van Bemmelen and Lieut. -Colonel G. B. Hooyer, 

 translated from the Dutch by the Rev. B. J. Berrington ; " The 

 Mystic Flowery Land," by Charles II. Halcombe, illustrated. 



Mr. Murray will publish shortly : — " The Japanese Alps : an 

 -Account of Climbing and Exploration in the Unfamiliar Moun- 

 tain Regionsof Central Japan," by the Rev. Walter Weston, with 

 map and illustrations; " Flandbook for Egypt, Alexandria, Cairo, 

 Thebes, the Suez Canal, the Pyramids, Sinai, the Fyoom, the 

 Course of the Nile from Dongola, &c.," a new and entirely revised 

 edition, edited by Miss Brodrickand Prof. Sayce, with the assist- 

 ance of distinguished Egyptologists and officials, with many new- 

 maps and plans ; " Some Unrecognized Lawsof Nature, an Inquiry 

 into the Causes of Physical Phenomena, with Special Reference 

 to Gravitation," by Ignatius Singer and Lewis H. Berens ; 

 " The Dawn of Modern Geography," by Raymond C. Beazley, 

 with reproductions of the principal maps of the time : " Uni- 

 versity lixtension Manuals : an Introduction to Physical Science," 

 by Prof. John Cox ; " The History of Astronomy," by Arthur 

 Berry ; " A History of Education," by Principal James Donald- 

 son ; " An Introduction to Philosophy," by Prof. Knight. 



The following are to be found in Mr. David Nutt's list : — 

 " The Voyages made by the Sieur D.B. to the Isles Dauphine 

 or Madagascar, and Bourbon or Mascarene in the years 1669, 

 1670, 1671, and 1672, together with the Manners, Religions, 

 Forces, Governments, and Customs of the Inhabitants of the 

 said Islands, with the Natural History of the Country," trans- 

 lated, for the first time, from the original French published in 

 1674, and edited by Captain Pasfield Oliver, illustrated ; 

 "Australian Legendary Tales," Folk-lore of the Noongah- 

 burrahs, as told to the Picaninnies, collected and retold 

 in English by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker, illustrations by a native 

 artist, glossary of native words, and specimen of the native 

 text; "Maori Legends," collected from printed sources and 

 oral tradition, and retold by Kate McCosh Clarke, illus- 

 trated ; "The Baba-Log: a Story of Child Life in British 

 India," by the Rev. J. Middleton Macdonald, illustrated ; 

 "Fairy Tales from the Isle ol Rtigen," told from oral tradition 

 by Ernst Moritz Arndt in 1837, and translated into English 

 for the first time by Anna Dabis, with facsimile reproduction 

 of the original illustrations, a portrait of Arndt, and a map of 

 the island of Rtigen. 



