We have to acknowledge two new parts of the New
English Dictionary, edited by Dr. James G. H. Murray (Clarendon Press). Two volumes, III. and IV., are now in progress. In the former, under Dr. Murray's immediate superintendence, we have "Do. pravative—Development;" in the latter, edited by Henry Bradley, M.A., " Fee—Fued."—Another work in progress is Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (Cassell and Co.) In this we have " Cheddington—Frome" in the volume before us. —In the series of "Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books" (Routledge and Sons), we have The Confucian Anaprsts, by William Jennings, MA.; and The Buddha and his Religion, by J. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire, translated by Laura Ensor. These two volumes are respectively ninety-three and ninety-four."—In the "Athenaeum Press Series" (Ginn, Boston, U.S.), we have A Book of .Elizabethan Lyrics, selected and edited by Felix E. Schelling ; and Old English Ballads, selected and edited by Francis B. Gummere. The series is under the general editorship of G. L. Kittridge and C. T. Winchester —In "The Scott Library" (Walter Scott), Nathan the Wise, translated with notes by Major- General Patrick Maxwell.
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