NEW EMTIONS. — The Dialogues of Plato. Translated into English, With Analyses
and Introductions, by B. Jewett, M.A. 5 vols. (The Clarendon Press.) "The prefaces to the Dialogues," says Mr. Grote, in his preface to the second edition, "have been enlarged, and essays on enbjects of modern philosophy having an affinity to the Platonic Dialogues have been introduced into several of them. The analyses have been corrected, and innumerable alterations have been made in the text." It was towards the text of the translation as it was first issued that criticism was chiefly directed, and a certain case, not suffi- cient, however, very seriously to depreciate its value, was made out. To the removal of these defects Mr. Jewett has given his attentiz.n. To make so vast a work perfect is beyond the hope of any man, though much is possible to a student so enthusiastic as Mr. Jewett-. At the same time, in his second preface, which is chiefly devoted to a statement of the difficulties that beset a translator, and especially a translator of Greek philosophy, he shows a thorough appreciation of the conditions of his task. He has made his work still more worthy of the place which it secured at first as one of our standard translations.—We have also to acknow- ledge second editions of Notitia Eucharistica, by W. E. Soudatnore (Rivingtons); of The Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion, by George Cornewall Lewis (Longmans); and of Archdeacon Hare's Mission of the Comforter, edited by Professor Plumptre (Macmillan), a work of which we spoke very recently, and which we are very glad to find so properly appreciated...---We have before us the first volume of an cdition of The Works of Charles Lamb, edited by Percy Fitzgerald, in six volumes, with memoir, Fac. (Meson.) This editions promises to give u s all that in left, or at least as much as is attainable, of Lamb's remains. We hope to find an opportunity of reverting to it.—Mr. Murray re- publishes Livingstone's First Expedition to Africa, and in an abridged form, his Second Expedition to Africa, 1858-1861. These two convenient and cheap volumes will be welcome to many readers.—A melancholy interest attaches to the republication of Poems and Translations, by P. S. Worsley. (Blackwood.) They first appeared in 1868, and the author died in 1866. The translation of the " Odyssey " into one of the most diffi- cult of English metres, and a similar translation of the "Iliad," begun, but left to be completed by another hand, remain as singular monuments of an intellectual energy which could not be depressed by bodily decay. The volume before us contains the writer's shorter pieces, both original and translated, some of them not before published. Whether the follow- ing has been so or no we do not know, but our readers will be glad, in any case, to see it again :— " In rapture on the stars above
Thou gazest, 0 my star, my love! Would that I were those happy skies, To see thee with ten thousand eves."
—We have also to acknowledge Solid Geometry, Vol. L, by P. Frost, a new edition, revised and enlarged, of the treatise by Frost and Wolsten- holme. (Macmillan.)—Our Father's Love, by Mark Evans (Henry S. King), is a new and enlarged edition of a book which we spoke of some time ago with high praise, Theology for Chil dren,—The Keys of the
Creeds (Triibner) has for an object to prove that Creeds are nothing, and that "theology as a science of God has no real existence."—A most amusing hook, and one full also of literary interest, that appears for a second time, is Tobacco, its History and Associations, by F. W. Fairholt. (Chatto and Windus.)---Hydnis for Infant Minds, by Ann and Jane Taylor, have been edited by Josiah Gilbert. (Hodder and Stoughton.) This edition (the fiftieth) differs from its predecessors in the omission of the hymns, and the addition of twenty-three taken from other sources, and in some pretty little illustrations from the pen of the editor.—Those who are curious in such literature may consult Queen Mm, Two Old Plays by Decker and Webster, and Thomas Heywood, edited by William J. Blew. (Pickering.)
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