NEW EDITIONS. — An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament.
By Samuel Davidson, D.D. Vol. II. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The Pastoral Epistles are pronounced to be non-Pauline, Acts is assigned to "soon after 120 A.D." The Apocalypse "did not assume its present form till the reign of Hadrian." Colossians is non-Pauline; the same is said of Ephesians, which, however, is allowed to be "the work of a thoughtful Christian, far-seeing, comprehensive in the range of his ideas, and not without inspiration." The First Epistle of John is earlier than the Gospel, and not from the same hand. The exact date of the letter being uncertain, we cannot come nearer to it than A.D. 180. The Second and Third are a little, but not much, later. Jude was not much later than A.D. 140. Next comes the Fourth Gospel, which is said to be plainly the product of a time after the beginning of the second century. Finally, we have 2 Peter, which is brought down, but with some hesitation, as late as A.D. 170. This summary will give an idea of the views advocated in the third edition, "revised and improved." —A Book of Simple Prayers. Collected and Arranged by "E. W." (Langley, Reading.)—/nstruction and Amusements of the Blind. By Dr. Guilli& (Sampson Low and Co.)—A republica- tion of an essay published in 1819. Dr. Guilli6 was physician to an institution for the blind at Paris, and his book is interesting as an early effort to provide for the teaching and entertainment of this class.—Sidonia the Sorceress, and the Amber Witch. 2 vols. By William Meinhold. (Reeves and Turner.)—Some of our older readers will probably remember the appearance of Sidonia in an early series of cheap fiction called" The Parlour Library." It is a most repulsive story, which might very well have been left where it was. The Amber Witch has more interest. Its literary history is curious, for it was written, according to common belief, to test the acumen of the higher critics, whom indeed it deceived. Professing to be written by a German pastor during the Thirty Years' War, it was really a modern work. Its writer had studied the literature of witchcraft trials with much assiduity, and pro- duced an amazingly clever imitation of a seventeenth-century narrative.—Ishmael Pengelly, an Outcast. By Joseph Hocking. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—The Poems of Shakespeare. Edited, with Memoir, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. (Bell and Sons.)—A volume in the new issue of the "Aldine Poets ; " also belonging to the same series, The Poems of Collins, edited by Moy Thomas. —In the "Eversley Series," Evolution and Ethics, and other Essays. By T. H. Huxley. (Macmillan).—Broad Norfolk. Edited by "C. H." (Jarrold and Sons.)—A reprint from the Eastern Daily Press.—In a new series of 'Dicks' English Library of Standard Works," to be published monthly, we have the first volume containing W. H. Ainsworth's Tower of London, and four short pieces by Thackera.y, Albert Smith, &e,— Microcosmus : an Essay concerning Man and his Relation to the World. By Hermann Lotzo. Translated from the German by
Elizabeth Hamilton and E. E. Constance Jones. 2 vols. (T. and
T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—The Life of Jonathan Swift. By Henry Craik. 2 vols. (Macmillan.)—A Life's Decision. By T. W.
Allies. (Burns and Oates.)—Principles of Contract. By Sir F. Pollock. (Stevens and Sons.)—The Playground of Europe. By Leslie Stephen.—Reminiscences of Yarrow. By the late Rev. James Russell, D.D. (Lewis and Son, Selkirk.)—The Spirit World. By Florence Marryat. (F. V. White.)—In the "Dry- burgh Series of the Waverley Novels" we have Count Robert of Paris. (1. and C. Black.)—Geoffrey Hamlyn. By Henry Kingsley. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—Highland Cousins. By William Black. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—A Valiant Ignorance. By Mary Angela Dickens. (Macmillan.)—Under the Rea Robe. By Stanley Weyman. (Methuen.)—Alice of the inn. By John W. Sherer. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Carols for Use in Church during Christina, and Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, and Harvest. By R. R. Chope, M.A. Music edited by H. S. Irons and A. IL Brown. (Clowes and Sons.)—Seven Thousand Words often Mispronounced. By W. H. P. Phyte. With Supplement of 1,400 Additional Words. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Chronological Outlines of American Literature. By Selden L. Whitcomb, M A. (Mac- millan.)—This is a useful manual, giving the names and works of American authors, with "Biographical Dates," and contem- poraneous notes of "British Literature," "Foreign Literature," and "History." Professor Brander Matthews supplies an Introduction.
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