to the familiar story of Scrooge, the miser. The pages are full of alterations, but the author, perhaps foreseeing future curiosity, has in most cases completely obliterated the passages which he considered unsatisfactory. Their apparent want of importance in the few cases where it is possible to unravel the original show the great sensitiveness of the artist, though the additions sometimes illustrate his characteristic redundance. Thus, in one passage, the night, originally "Foggier yet colder!" is altered to the night Foggier yet colder! Piercing, searching, biting cold." The passages most free from corrections are in dialogue, whether because Dickens was most certain or least careful in this department of his craft we leave to his still numerous admirers to decide on perusing this interesting facsimile.

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With reference to the "worst ghost story in the world" which we published the other day in these columns a correspondent writes to us as follows:-" The fly leaves of Glanvils book' seem to be favoured receptacles of ghostly experiences. After reading the note in Literature of December 4 I took down my copy of Saducismus Triumphatus' and found written therein the ghost story which I subjoin :—

The relation of an apparition yt appeared to Francis Arthur on Monday, ye 27 day of Feb., 1721, in ye ch. of Pawlet, near Bridgewater, Com. Somersett-viz., Francis Arthur says yt being in ye Vestry ye aforesaid day with his schollars between ye hours of nine and ten in ye morning, there was a noise made at ye vestry door, as if one did beat against it with his fist, & yt ye same was repeated several times, but louder and louder till at last it was very loud, so ye children began to fancy there was somebody in the church. At last Francis Arthur opened ye door & and went into ye Ch., and when he had gone as far as ye Minister's reading Pew he saw as it were people go out at ye great door of ye Ch., & by ye Russling noise they seemed to be pretty many; they seemed to be men and women, but he cannot say yt he knew any one of them. At ye time these were going out he saw just by him ye Ghost or spirit of a person whom he very well knew, wh. seeing him affraid spoke to him and desired him not to fear for he would do him no harm. The same spirit bade him have faith in God, and asked him whether he believed there would be a Resurrection, and said at ye same time yt there certainly would, and that they should one day meet, but how soon he could not tell. The Apparition desired ye said Francis Arthur not to discover who he was. The Apparition further exhorted the said Francis to lead a good life and follow ye doctrines and Instructions they had. The Apparition further wished that Francis had come into ye church sooner, for yt. he (ye Apparition) had been preaching ye Gospel to some of ye saints, and that his time was now expired and so he must be gone, and then vanished out of his sight.

This is a true relation of ye Apparition yt I saw in the Church of Pawlet on Monday, ye 27th of Feb. last, as witness my hand, and which I am ready to confirm by my oath.-FRANCIS ARTHUR.

Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co. have projected the publication of an important bibliographical work. It is no less than" an Index to the early printed books in the British Museum." It is to be issued in sections, the first of which will appear in January, 1898; the complete work, however, will be ready in the autumn of next year, and will contain between eight and nine hundred pages. Mr. R. Proctor is the compiler. When finished the volume will form a list of the books printed in the 15th century which were in the library of the British Museum on the 1st of July, 1897, together with additions showing such books as are also or only in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. It includes an attempt

at a complete chronological list of the 15th century presses, and a table of types. The arrangement adopted is after the historical method, sanctioned by such eminent bibliographers as Mr. J. W. Holtrop and Mr. Henry Bradshaw, which aims at following, as closely as is possible consistently with clearness, the development of printing in the various countries and towns in which it was practised in the 15th century. First come the Block-books, then the books printed from movable types arranged in chronological order under the printers' names; and then the printers arranged in order of towns, and the towns under the countries. At the head of each country is placed a chronological list of towns. The printing presses are dealt with in the same way. With regard to those books which have no printers' names, these will be assigned according to the types used, and specimens of such types will be given with the considerations for such assignments. Those books which cannot, at present, be placed to the credit of any printer are placed at the end of each town, or, if not assignable to any town, of each country ; "but those which are dated, and present peculiarities so marked as to make it improbable that they are produced by any one of the known printers, are treated as separate presses, and take their place in the chronological order, under such headings as The R Printer,' 'The Printer of Henricus Ariminensis,' &c. Each book will have entries for (1) running number; (2) Brit. Museum or Bodleian marks; (3) date; (4) short title; (5) Brit. Museum catalogue headings; (6) publisher; (7) size; (8) references to Hain or Campbell; (9) type used; and (10) remarks, noting the number of copies in each library, and giving information as to condition, &c. The complete work will consist of four sections (i.) books printed in Germany; (ii.) books printed in Italy; (iii.) books printed in France, the Netherlands, England, and Spain; and (iv.) the Tables.

There will be printed only 350 copies for sale, and the publishers and author "undertake that the book shall not be reprinted." The price is to be £3, that for the four sections, to subscribers, £2 10s.

The remarkable index to the famous Townsend Library of "National, State, and Individual Records," now the property of Columbia University, was completed a short time since. For nearly 40 years Thomas S. Townsend, the compiler of the index, has been steadily working at the enormous mass of material at his disposal, and it is now stated that the "most noted students of war history have been unable to find anything of importance in relation to the late war that has been overlooked." The idea of the Townsend Library was conceived six months before the beginning of the great struggle between North and South. The work is in three parts, the record, encyclopædia, and index. The record is in ninety volumes, and contains every item of information concerning the war and reconstruction periods, and all the individuals whose names have ever become public in connexion with them. The encyclopedia, which is an index of this record, contains 40,000 pages. The index contains the names of twenty thousand individuals who were in some way connected with the war.

With reference to Canon Knox Little's lectures on "St. Francis of Assisi," which were recently noticed in Literature, it may be useful for some readers to point out that by far the best account of St. Francis is to be found in the admirable article which Sir James Stephen contributed to the Edinburgh Review more than fifty years ago, and which is reprinted in his volume of "Essays on Ecclesiastical Biography." Sir James Stephen's article was ostensibly a notice of two French works, "L'Histoire de St. François d'Assise," par Emile Chavin de Malan and St. François d'Assise," par E. J. Delécluse.

Mr. Arnold Haultain, of Toronto, Canada, makes the following sensible suggestion :

In reference to your very true remark, in your issue of October the 30th, that "politicians-or, at any rate, their secretaries—and journalists frequently find it less easy than they could wish to obtain at a moment's notice information about the political history of recert years, may I suggest that if the Annual Register were really well indexed-say, once every ten years-this might supply that "something " which all will agree with you in thinking is required, which no one at present has exactly supplied." The somewhat meagre index with which each separate volume is equipped is of little avail for this purpose, and

We publish elsewhere an article on Gilbert White-the progenitor of the army of naturalists who write so delightfully for us at the present day about the life of the field and woodland. There seems to be no limit, and one need hardly wish there should be a limit, to popular and readable books on English birds such as Mr. Charles Dixon's "Our favourite Songbirds, published by Messrs. Lawrence and Bullen within the last few weeks. The only thing to regret is that the time and money spent on their production should not be concentrated on one or two books with better illustrations.

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"Better illustrations!" it will be said. "It is just there that we excel; we have learnt at last, under the guidance of Mr. Thorburn and others, to combine accuracy and actuality with real artistic quality. We can only say that nothing yet published in England can approach the pictures in "Bird Neighbors," a book by Neltje Blanchan, which we have just received from the Doubleday and McClure Company of New York. We are far behind the Americans in this particular art. Compare the pictures by Mr. H. Stannard in Mr. Dixon's book with those in another American book issued a little while ago called "Citizen Bird." They were, we fancy, photographic, and so are the illustrations to "Bird Neighbors, but the manipulation of the photographs is so excellent they exceed not only in fidelity but in beauty anything England has yet produced. The large full-page pictures in the latter book are coloured, and we commend to the attention of artists with the brush and the camera these remarkable examples of what can be done by the coloured photograph in the life-like representation of birds in their habitats.

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The final volume of Messrs. George Bell and Sons' "Ex-libris" series will deal with the important subject of German bookplates. As is well known, Germany can show, perhaps, the highest achievements in the heraldic department of this art. Indeed, an eminent authority on this matter, Mr. Egerton Castle, says that "the book-plate, as we understand it now, undoubtedly made its first appearance in Germany.' The late Herr Warnecke discovered the oldest book-plate, known to be that of one Johannes Knabensperg; its date being approximately fixed at about 1450. Messrs. Bell's publication is to be the joint work of Dr. Heinrich Pallmann, Director of the Kupferstiches-Kabinet in Munich, and Mr. George Ravenscroft Dennis, the well-known amateur in ex-libris.

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The work has been a long time in preparation, but the subject is very extensive, and the reproductions of examples entail much attention. These are to be executed in the best style, both on copper and in colours, and will represent the chief work of Albert Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Hans Sebald Beham, Virgil Solis, Jost Amman, and many other little masters." modern artists there will be examples from the work of Joseph Sattler, Hans Thoma, Max Klinger, Franz Stück, and others. Most of the illustrations are taken from examples in the famous collection of book-plates of Graf zu Leiningen Westerburg. Mr. Dennis's collection of modern German book-plates is, perhaps, the finest in the kingdom.

Nat Lee's often-quoted line should be, as Mr. Jago reminds us, "When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war." Really, when it takes three attempts to get a misquotation put right, those who do not quote ought to be very lenient to those who do. In justice to ourselves, however, we may remind Mr. Jago that we were concerned in correcting the word met " which imports a wrong meaning into the line, and, in fact, entirely alters the point of it. The use of the singular or the plural "Greek" or "Greeks "-makes no difference to the

The practice of illustrating catalogues of second-hand booksellers is largely on the increase, and it is one highly to be commended. Messrs. Pearson, of 5, Pall-mall-place, S. W., have adopted this with excellent results in their newest list, which is also one of their best. This fat little catalogue enumerates nearly 700 items, many of which are of the first order of rarity. The Americana is especially noteworthy as including a collection of 60 very rare pamphlets issued during the lifetime or immediately after the death of George Washington, the whole printed in different cities of the United States and uniformly bound. A fine copy of the editio princeps Apuleius, 1469; a unique copy of N. Breton's "A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love," 1662 a perfect example of "The Floure of the Commandments of God," from Wynkyn de Worde's press, 1521; a fine copy of the Landino Dante, 1497; one of two or three recorded examples of Dewes's" An Introductorie for to Learne to Rede, printed by John Reynes, about 1530; and a very fine copy of the editio princeps Euripides, from the Aldine Press, 1503-these are only a few of the many plums." There are also complete series of the first editions of Harrison Ainsworth, Carlyle, and George Eliot.

&c.,

Far the most curious article in Mr. Henry Walker's catalogue (37, Briggate, Leeds) is a Hebrew scroll, containing the Book of the Law-Genesis, Exodus, and part of Leviticuswritten by hand on parchment, 16 yards in length and 27in. in height, and mounted on rollers. This scroll was brought to England by a refugee on the expulsion of the Jews from Russia.

The late Thomas Westwood, of Brussels, was a well-known bibliophile, and a part of his choice collection now forms the backbone, so to speak, of a large and informing annotated catalogue just issued by Messrs. Sotheran and Co., of 37, Piccadilly, and 140, Strand. As might have been expected, the books on angling form an important feature, the most interesting item being the original manuscript of Mr. Westwood's "Chronicle of the Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, being a Bibliographical Record of its various Phases and Mutations. In addition to the published material the manuscript has an unpublished bibliographical appendix containing descriptions and collations of the various editions of Walton's "Angler" and auction prices. The catalogue has also a fine copy of the first edition of that storehouse of learning Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy,' 1621; a memento of one of the greatest literary hoaxes of the age, the De Fortras "Catalogue, " in which a large number of entirely imaginary rarities are described with bibliographical minuteness; a faultless copy of the beautiful" Book of Hours" printed upon vellum by Hygman for Eustaache at Paris, about 1516; a choice copy of La Fontaine, the " Fermiers Généraux " edition, with the requisite plates "découvertes"; a Napoleon relic in the shape of a volume of three tracts, “Le Divorce Céleste," &c., 1644-75, with the Emperor Napoleon's arms on sides, and with a manuscript note stating that the volume was "taken this day "out of the Emperor's private apartment at St. Cloud, Tuesday, July 17, 1815; and Charles Lamb's copies of the "Memoirs and Anecdotes " of Philip Thicknesse, and of that writer's A Year's Journey.' Perhaps the chief general feature of the whole is that nearly every volume is noteworthy for its beautiful binding, morocco, calf, or extra cloth or buckram.

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A very extensive collection-one of the largest we have ever seen in a single catalogue-of works by and relating to Byron forms the chief feature of the new list of works issued by Messrs. Meehan, of Gay-street, Bath. There are over 200 items, many of which are of the earliest issues. The very rarest of Byron's publications are not found here, an but there is commonly good nucleus for a really comprehensive Byron library. The first editions of this prolific poet have greatly increased in commercial value during the last few years. The very pleasantly varied catalogue of Mr. Alfred Cooper (68, Charing-cross-road, W.C.) also contains some Byroniana, notably "The Waltz, by Horace Hornern," the rarest Byron

The Bouguineurs of Paris are to lose one of their happiest hunting grounds-the parapets of the Quai d'Orsay, rendered noteworthy in this respect in the book-hunting monographs of M. Octave Uzanne and other writers who tell of bargains made at street stalls and love to chronicle the doings of pickers-up of unconsidered trifles.

Gabrielle d'Annunzio's political duties, informal as they are, seem to have interfered with the production of his long-promised drama in four acts, La Ville Morte (The Dead City), founded on the story of Dr. Schliemann's excavations at Troy. Some time ago d'Annunzio was said to be busily engaged in completing this work, which he was writing in Italian and French simultaneously, and it was to have been given for the first time at the Renaissance, under the management of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, But the autumn is now over, and nothing more has been heard of it.

The first month of the new year will count as its chief dramatic interest in Germany the publication and production of Sudermann's new piece Johannes. This Biblical drama is described by those who have so far been privileged to read the manuscript, from the German Emperor downwards, as one of the very few really great tragedies of the nineteenth century. In character-drawing and in incident it is said to maintain a high level of skill, and it is faithful to the best traditions of the stage. Jesus is not directly introduced, though the action centres about him, and the curtain falls upon the declaration of his Gospel. At the Deutsches Theatre, where the play will appear towards the end of January, the part of John has been assigned to Josef Kianz; but it is said that the services of a foreign actress will probably be invoked to play Sudermann's Herodias.

It was inevitable that an undertaking so bold and so successful as Cosmopolis should bring a host of followers into the field. The latest addition to their number is Kosmodike, the first issue of which is promised for January 1. Kosmodike is described in German, French, and English as a "Periodical for International Law Matters." It is edited by a Mannheim barrister, Dr. Alexander von Harder, and will command the services of lawyers in all countries. The publishers are Siemenroth and Troschel, of Berlin, and the price will be three marks monthly.

No historian has exerted so great and so widespread an influence in Germany as Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, with his Universal History of the German People," which appeared for the first time more than half a century ago. The vitality of this work is astonishing. The book has been republished time after time, and no less than 95,000 copies have been sold. The first popular edition of it was issued some five years ago and was soon exhausted. A second is now in process of publication (Berlin Inh. Martin Höfer). It will consist of 19 volumes, the price of each volume being 2 marks.

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The speech by which Gabrielle d'Annunzio obtained the suffrages of the Roman rustics contained not one single allusion to any of those vital questions which make up the essence of modern Italian politics. The fact that this novelty in electioneering oratory should have gained its end, and that the author of "The Triumph of Death" sits to-day in the Representative Chamber at Rome, has caused much chagrin to his enemies, who have seriously contemplated lodging a petition against d'Annunzio's return.

Herr Felix Weingartner, the great Berlin conductor, has published his lecture on "The Symphony Since Beethoven" in the Neue Deutsche Rundschau. His wide knowledge of art and his brilliant literary style raise Weingartner's essay to an important position in musical literature. After dealing with Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms (on the latter he says much that is fresh), he characterizes with admirable succinctness the whole modern school of symphony writers, such as Christian Sinding, Alexander Barodin, Goldmark, Tschaikowsky, Smetana, Strauss, and Mahler, and, of course, Liszt and Berlioz.

"The Book of the Year 1897," a Chronicle of the Times and a Record of Events, compiled by Edmund Routledge, will be published on or about the 5th of January. It professes to describe every important event that happened on every day of the year 1897, in every part of the globe, and is enriched by an exhaustive index of nearly 100 pages in double columns embodying more than 10,000 references.

Miss Gertrude Atherton who made such a success with her fine story," Patience Sparhawk and Her Times," has just finished a novel which she calls "The Americans of Maundrell Abbey." It will be published in the spring by Messrs. Service and Paton.

Messrs. A. Pearson and Co. are passing through the press, for publication in the spring, Mr. Max Pemberton's "The Phantom Army," and Mr. George Griffiths's " Virgin of the Sun. They will also publish at the same time a novel by Mr. Grant Allen entitled "The Incidental Bishop."

In the number of La Revue des Revues issued on January 1 appear papers, hitherto unpublished, by Pope Leo XIII. under the title Catechisme Social "(written when he was a Cardinal), by M. Pobiedonotzeff, Procureur of the Holy Russian Synod, on Society and Religion, and Memoirs of a Pupil of Jean Jacques Rousseau. A paper by George Brandes on the Work of Alphonse Daudet will appear in the Revue des Revues of January 15.

The Story of the Empire" series, edited by Mr. Howard A. Kennedy, has now reached its fourth volume, "The Story of Canada," by the editor himself. This is to be followed at the end of January by Mr. Basil Worsfold's "Story of South Africa." The Hon. W. P. Reeves is also writing a volume in this series for publication in the end of March. His subject is the history of the colony which he represents in England— namely, New Zealan·l.

ART.

Mr. Richard Harding Davis, who had a roving commission from Messrs. Harper to report and record the various great events and ceremonies of the last two years, has gathered together his contributions to Harper's Magazine, in one volume, with forty full-page illustrations by Mr. R. Caton Woodville. Messrs. Harper are the publishers.

The excellent sea story which appears in the current "Christmas number " of the World is written by Lady Poore, the wife of the chief of the Mediterranean Squadron. She is a sister of Mr. A. P. Graves, and has just published through Messrs. Downey and Co. a clever story with the title "My Sister Barbara."

The MS. of a story in which frontier warfare is dealt with has been completed by Mr. Walter Wood for Messrs. Tillotson's syndicate. The publication of the story, which is to begin at an early date, will cover a period of about three months.

Pen Drawings and Pen Draughtsmen. Their Work and Their Methods. A Study of the Art of To-day. With Technical Suggestions by Joseph Pennell. 12x9in., xxxvii.+470 pp. London and New York, 1897.

Macmillan. 42s. n.

BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. Mrs. Turner's Cautionary Stories. (The Dumpy Books for Children. No. 2.) Selected by E. V. Lucas. 5x3in. London, 1897. Grant Richards. 1s. 6d. Wonderland Wonders. By Rev. John Isabell, F.E.S. With 66 Illustrations by Cecil Aldin, Louis Wain, and others. 10×6in., 118 pp. London, 1897. Home Words. 5s. English History for Children. By Mrs. Frederick Boas. With 20 Full-page Illustrations. 7×4țin., viii.+264 pp. London, 1898.

Nisbet. 2s. 6d. The Story of Marlborough. Told in 52 Pictures. By Caran D'Ache. With Descriptive Text by the Hon. Francis Wolseley. 11×8 in., 50 pp. London, 1897. Grevel. 10s. 6d. Philippa's Adventures in Upsidedown Land. A Child's Story. By Laura L. Finlay. 7× 5in., 122 pp. London, 1898. Digby, Long. 1s. 6d. CLASSICAL. Xenophon's Anabasis. Book IV. Edited by W. H. Balgarnie, M.A. Lond. With Introduction, Text and Notes. (University Tutorial Series.) Cr. 8vo., 87 pp. London, 1897. Clive. 3s. 6d.

FICTION. The Apples of Sin. By Coulson Kernahan. 7×4in., 47 pp. London, New York, and Melbourne, 1897. Ward and Lock. 1s. L'Idolo. Romanzo di Gerolamo Rovetta. 8vo., 420 pp. Milan, 1898. Galli. 4 lire. Gli Amori. By F. de Roberto. 8vo., 279 pp. Milan, 1898. Galli. 3 lire. Le spose mistiche. Novelle di Iolanda. 8vo., 212 pp. Rocca San Casciano 1898.

Lincinio Cappelli. 2 lire. II Braccialetto. By Luigi Capuana. 8vo., 356 pp. Milan, 1897. Brigola. 2.50 lire. Manoupa. By Rose Soley. 8×5in., viii.+331 pp. London, 1897.

Digby, Long. 68.

GEOGRAPHY.

The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk. Translated from the Greek and Edited, with Notes and Intro

duction, by J. W. M Crindle, M.A., M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S. 9×52in., xxxix. +398 pp. London, 1897. Hakluyt Society.

HISTORY. Letters and Papers relating to the War with France, 1512-1518. By Alfred Spont, Ancien Elève de l'Ecole des Chartes. (Publications of the Navy Records Society. Vol. X.) 91×6in., xlviii.+219 pp. London, 1897. For Subscribers only. Printed for the Navy Record Society.

Il Ministero in Spagna e il processo del cardinale Giullo Alberoni. Studio storico documentato di Alfonso Professione. Svo.. 297 pp. Turin, 1897. Carlo Clausen. 4.50 lire. Gliobelischi egiziani di Roma. Illustrated. With translation of hieroglyphic texts by Orazio Marucchi, Director of the Vatican Egyptian Museum. New and enlarged edition, with four phototype plates, and an introductory letter by Prof. Schiaparelli, Director of the Turin Egyptian Museum. 4to., 156 pp. Rome, 1898.

Ermanno Loescher. Lettere di Storia e archeologia a Giovanni Gozzadini. Publicate da Nerio Malvezzi. Con prefazione di G. Carducci. 8vo., 364 pp. Bologna, 1897.

Nicola Zanichelli. 12 lire. JANUARY MAGAZINES. The Magazine of Art. Cassell. 18. 4d. The Rosebud. A Monthly Magazine for Children. James Clarke. 3d. The Art Journal. Virtue. 1s. 6d. The Cornhill Magazine. Smith, Elder. 1s. The Sunday Magazine. Isbister. 6d. Good Words. Isbister. 6d. The Gentleman's Magazine. Chatto. Is. The Railway Magazine. 78, Temple Chambers, 6d. Cassell's Magazine. Cassell. 6d. Little Folks. Cassell. 6d. The University Magazine. University Press. 1s. Temple Bar. Bentley. 18. Macmillan's Magazine. Macmillan. 1s. The Century Illustrated Magazine. Macmillan. 18. 4d. St. Nicholas. For Young Folks. Macmillan. 1s. The Argosy. Bentley. 1s.

LAW. Diritto naturale e positivo. Saggio storico dell'Avvocato Valen

tino Rivalta. 467 pp. Bologna,

1897. Zanichelli. 6 lire. Il Matrimonio degli ufficiali rispetto al beni. Manuale teorico-pratico. By Avv. Guiseppe Taveggi. 8vo., 80 pp. Rome, 1898. Voghera. 1.50 lire.

AND REPRINTS.

LITERARY.

The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick. A Lecture by Frank Lockwood, Q.C., M.P. 2nd Ed. 6×44in., 108 pp. London, 1897. Roxburghe Press. 18. 6d. A Christmas Carol. A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript by Charles Dickens. 11 x 8 in. London, Paris, and Melbourne, 1897. Cassell. 1s.

Studies in Frankness. By
Charles Whibley. 7×54in., 262 pp.
London, 1898. Heinemann. 78. 6d.
Diporti e veglie. By Tullo
Massarani. 8vo., 587 pp. Milan,
1898.
Hoepli. 5.50 lire.
Fascolo, Manzoni, Leopardi.
Saggi di Arturo Graf; aggiuntovi
Preraffaeliti, Simbolisti ed
Esteti e Letteratura dell'
avvenire. 8vo., 485 pp. Turin,
1898.
Loescher. 8 lire.
Mondo-Mondano. By Carlo
Placci. 8vo., 300 pp. Milan, 1897.
Treves. 3.50 lire.

MATHEMATICS. Elements of the Mathemati

cal Theory of Electricity

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ORIENTAL.

The Sacred Books of the East. Translated by Various Oriental Scholars and Edited by F. Max Müller. Vol. xliii. The Satapatha-Brahmana. According to the Text of the Madhyandina School. Translated by Julius Part IV., Books viii. Eggeling. ix., and x. 9×5žin., xxvii. +410 pr. Oxford, 1897. Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d.

POETRY.

Vox Humana. By Esther Powell. 7×5in., 52 pp. London, 1897. Jarrold. 28. Hymns of Old England. A Sacred Anthology. Compiled by Champneys Irwine. 6x4in., xii. + 512 pp. London, 1897.

Simpkin Marshall. 2s. 6d. Poesie scelte. Di Antonio Fogazzaro. 8vo.. 213 pp. Milan, 1898. Baldini Castoldi and Co. 4 lire. La Giostra d'Amore e le Canzoni. Poesie di Francesco Pastouchi. 180 pp. Milan, 1897. Treves. 3 lire.

POLITICAL.

in Eritrea. Magnetism. By J. J. Thomson, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 2nd Ed. 7x5lin.. viii.+508 pp. 1897. Cambridge University Press. 10s.

MEDICAL. Aneurisms of the Aorta. Being an Exercise for an Act for the Degree of M.D. in the University By Oswald A. of Cambridge. Browne, M.A., M.D., of Trinity College. 11x8 in.. 38 pp. London, 1897. H. K. Lewis. 2s. 6d. MISCELLANEOUS.

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery. Including, by Special Permission, Notes collected from the Works of Mr. Ruskin. Compiled by Edward T. Cook. With a Preface by John Ruskin, LL.D., D.C.L. 5th Ed. 7×5 in., xxiii.+893 pp. London and New York, 1897. Macmillan. 14s. Guesses at Truth. By Two Brothers. (The Eversley Series.) 7x5in., liv.+576 pp. London and New York, 1897. Macmillan. 5s. Affirmations. By Havelock Ellis. 9×5}in., vii.+248 pp. London, 1898. Walter Scott. 6s.

MUSIC.

The Scottish Student's Song Book. Edited by Millar Patrick, M.A., and others. 104×7 in., vi.+ 360 pp. London and Glasgow, 1897. Bayley and Ferguson. 3s. n.

I nostri Errori: Tredici Anni Note storiche e considerazioni (anonymous). 391 pr. Turin, 1897. Casanova, 4 lire. Teoria del Decreti-Leggi. By Giulio Fontanive. 218 pp. Bologna, 1897. Zanichelli. 4 lire.

SCIENCE.

The Steam Engine and other Heat Engines. By J.A.Ewing, M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S. 5 in., xvi.+456 pp. 1897.

2nd Ed. 9x Cambridge, University Press. 158. THEOLOGY.

A Pilgrim's Scrip. Extracts for Daily Use from the Writings of The Rev. J. M. Neale. Selected by The Sisters of St. Margaret's, East Grinstead. 7×43in., 123 pp. London, 1898. Ellis and Keene. 2s. 6d. The Holy Bible. Containing the

Old and New Testaments, to which is prefixed an Introduction by J. W. Mackail. Vol. IV. Job to the Song of Solomon. 74x5in., London and New York, 408 pp. 1898. Macmillan. 5s. Texts and Studies. Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature. Edited by J. Armitage Robinson, D.D. Vol. V. No. 2. Clement of Alexandria: Quis Dives Salvatur. 9×5in., xxx.+66 pp. 1897.

Cambridge University Press. 38. n. I nostri Protestanti prima e dopo la Riforma. By Emilio Comba, Two volumes. Florence, 1897.

696 pp. 8 lire.