The Bibliography of Ruskin. A Bibliographical List, arranged in Chronological Order, of the Published Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin, M.A. (from 1834 to 1879). Third Edition. IT is the function of a bibliographer (and too often the poor wretch finds the task almost beyond his strength) to recall into active life much that is slowly perishing. Nine times out of ten the author himself is imperfectly acquainted with the history of his own offspring. He throws his bairns on the world and leaves others to look after them. The painful student who is bent upon discovering their varied fortunes soon finds, as we know from sad experience, that only his own unaided efforts will bring him that full knowledge which he is in pursuit of. Especially difficult is the labour of finding out the multifarious products of Mr. Ruskin's brain. His great works are the delight of all who love their country's literature, and are to be found in every library; but his lighter labours, if we may be allowed the invidious distinction, where are they not? His contributions have appeared in nearly forty separate newspapers and magazines; not infrequently he has printed, after the selfish manner of authors not pressed for money, to gratify his friends alone, and latterly his books have been published from an obscure village in Kent. What wonder, therefore, if in the course of three editions this bibliography has expanded from forty-eight to fifty-nine pages. We cry for more; if it is to tell the whole story of Mr. Ruskin's life it must be still further enlarged. We can imagine his future biographer turning in vain over the pages of this useful handbook for the habitat of that remarkable paper in which Mr. Ruskin announced his discovery of the wickedness of taking interest for the loan of money, and his determination of resigning the whole of his fortune save the poetic sum of "three hundred pounds a year." All this is buried in the pages of Fors Clavigera, and Mr. Shepherd should add to the notice of that series the particulars of the biographical information and the chief topics contained in its eight volumes. The titles of Mr. Ruskin's works are not always certain guides to their contents. Every reader of the Book Hunter-alas! it has long been out of print, and rare indeed is the lover of books who can now possess himself of Mr. Burton's delightful volume--will remember the misconception caused by the title Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds. Will not Mr. Shepherd transplant to the pages of his own work the narrative of the misguided purchaser from the country who bought it as a treatise connected with agriculture. Why, too, has he omitted in the later impressions the pages of Ruskiniana printed in the first edition? Much as the labours of Mr. Shepherd and his friends have secured, this bibliography can only be made perfect by receiving that large circulation of which we believe it to be worthy. In the hope of aiding in this desirable result, we add that the names of subscribers can only be received at 5, Hereford Square, S.W., the private address of Mr. Shepherd. The Genealogist. Edited by George W. Marshall, LL.D. Vol. II. 1878. (Golding & Lawrence.) DR. MARSHALL'S monthly issue forms a complete yearly volume of 400 pages, and is too well known to our readers to require an extended notice. It fills a gap in this class of literature occasioned by the death of the late Mr. John Gough Nichols, whose mantle appears to have fallen upon worthy shoulders. Several of the longer articles in this volume are of permanent interest, and its entire contents are of great value to the class of students for whom the work is specially intended. We congratulate Dr. Marshall on the success of his serial, and are glad to know that its appreciation by the public guarantees its continuance. The New Quarterly Magazine has commenced a series of papers, " Our Public Schools," with Eton. From the manner in which the subject has been handled we look forward to those to come.-Those desirous of possessing Mr. Spottiswoode's address, delivered before the British Association last year at Dublin, should, if for that alone, secure The Year Book of Facts (Ward, Lock & Co.).Of vol. ii. of Brief (Wyman & Sons), we can only say that it possesses the merits of its precursor. THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS.-Folk-lore Record, No. I. (Nichols & Sons.) FITZ BRAND writes to in your reviewer's brief notice of this very interesting us:-"I hope you will allow me to supply an omission volume-I mean his not making any reference to the fact that that valuable record of early English folk-lore, The Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaism, by John Aubrey, with additions by Dr. White Kennett, which hitherto has only been known by the extracts in Ellis's Brand and in The Anecdotes and Traditions, published by the Camden Society, is to be published Britten. Carefully edited and illustrated as it no doubt in its entirety, under the editorship of Mr. James will be by that gentleman and his colleagues, it cannot fail to do credit to the society and gratify not only the members, but also many foreign scholars. 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