Naw Enrnows.—To a new edition of Guesses at Truth, by
Two Brothers (Macmillan), Professor Plumptro prefixes a memoir of the two authors, Augustus and Julius Hare.-4 second edition of Who is Responsible for the War? by Scrutator (Rivington), contains a preface in which the author contradicts the assertion of the Berlin Press that he was to be identified with Mr. Gladstone, or, if not with Mr. Gladstone, certainly with a "literary hack " whom that statesman employed as his mouthpiece.—We have also to acknowledge Leigh Hunt's Table-Talk, with Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift (Smith and Elder); the Life of Robert Burns, by John Gibson Lockhart (Togg), oontaining also a short sketch of the life of Lockhart himself.—The Breitmann Ballads, by George G. Leland, a complete edition, with a preface by the author, (Trilbner).—Ono-third of the book, "Breitmann's Adventures in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Italy," is published for the first time. Among other things, Broitmann interviews the Pope, and gives him some good advice, which, as it is a new line for him, we will quote :— Tonitrus at eespoa dixit J01111110S Braltt119.1111, 'Hi veritatem cupies, tune ogo Brim der right man.
reroute Hamper forrum (him caldum est et malleable, Nano est team tempos to facer° infallible.
" 'In nostra America quum Preemie deoet ablre Die ultimo tacit omue quod posset Imagluire. Appointee ambaxiatoros et post-magistros, Optimise et altos, per dextros of sinistros. "'Queue Rex Bomba late Neapolit—anus, Compulsua full to shin it—ut dixit Afrleanue — Mack ultimo die ducos at countos, venue. (Inter silos McCloskey, tints Hibernicus chamberlanus.) "Et qula to as ut credo, ultimus Poporum, Facia bone devoniro, quod dicitur High Cockalorum,
Sol magnissimus toad in the puddle, lie caputs magnatnento ; Et Earns sissy Dans, nomino contmdieente I
" ' Tuna error Holes, Sande Pater oommielstl.
Quia primue non to proelamavieti,
Nam uemo midst dicer° Papa Molt quod non est bonus, Decet sempor jactaro super adios prebend! onus.
"Conceptio Immaculate, hoc mode Watt,
Et nom° runlet dicers mem verhum, do loth Non vides ei Infallibille co, at vultia as ox dare, Non ague sod tu solute bane debut proclamare,'
Figlio mlo,' dixit Papa ; os home mitablia, Tus verbs sent ml dulelor quam ostriohe cum ohablie, In tutts. Roma, de Aletnania gelato, Non ho visto ono con al graude mouto. " Vero born:Motto es—erle benedietne,
Tlbt milterom photographam in qua RUM dopletus Tu comprendee eituatio—il puuto et gravamen.
Stint panel elerlei ut to. Nunc dice tibi:—Amen.'"
Wo mast explain that " vultis es ex dare" means " you wish to give it oat." In the republication of the Aldine Edition of the British Poets. (Boll and Daldy) we have The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and The Poetical Works of Edmund Young, 2 vols.---In Bells English Poets (Griffin), we have Chaucer, vol. 7, containing "The Rornannt of the Rose," and The Poetical Works of Edward !Val/cr.—Au appro- priate republication is The" Reds" of Paris ; or, the Gavroche Party." By Blanchard Jerrold. (J. 0. Rotten.)--The Rev. E. Huntingford, D.O.L., considers that " now that so large a portion of the Apocalypse is to be read during divine service, it is more than over desirable that a plain and practical interpretation of that highly figurative prophecy should be within the roach of the general reader," and reprints accordingly his Practical Intepretation of the Revelation of St. John the Divine (Bickers). Dr. Huutingford identifies Babylon with Papal Rome.—The Euchar- istic Mann rls of John and Charles Wesley are republished, with the object of asserting the claim, in which there is, indeed, a certain truth, whioh the holders of high sacramental theories think that they have to the two Wosleys as allies of their own.—Another reprint from John Wesley is a curious tract entitled The Desideratum ; or, Electricity made Plain and Useful (Bailliere),—/gnaties Loyola and the Early Jesuits, by Stewart Rose (Longmans) ; and Antopiedia ; or, Instructions on Personal Education, by James McCrea, D.D. (Partridge), appear in the second edition.—In the very valuable series Clark's Ante-Nicene Library (T. and T. Clark), wo have to notice The Seven Books of Arnobitts adversus (Antes, translated by A.. H. Bryce, LL.D., and Hugh Campbell, M.A., and The Works of Gregory Thawnaturgus, Dionysius of Alexandria, and Arcliebuis, translated by the Rev. S. F. D. Salmond, M.A. From the same publishers we have also a new edition of Kwit's Metaphysic of Ethics, translated by J. W. Semple, with an introduction by Professor Oalderwood.—Mr. Percy Fitzgerald gives us in a new arrangement The Story of My Uncle Toby (Sampson Low), a welcome volume to many who might be repelled by some of the charaoteristics of Tristram Shandy.—Krffof and his Fables, by W. R.' S. Ralaton (Straiten), appears in a third edition, greatly enlarged. The book now ;contains, with but a very few exceptions, all the great Russian original fables.-----We have also before us a second edition of Mr. F. W. Newman's Translation of the Iliad (Trilbner). —Mr. R. W. Dale's The Jewish Temple and the Christian Church, a Series of Discourses on the Epistle to the Hebrews, appears in a second edition, revised, with additional notes. —We have also to acknowledge a third edition of The Light of the World, by the Rev. Richard Glover (Sampson Low), a little volume which the author describes as " itolman Hunt's Great Allegorical Picture translated into Words."—Among technical works we have to mention A Treatise on the Law applicable to Negligence, by Mr. Wil- liam Saunders, Barrister-at-Law (Butterworth) ; Dale's Legal Ritual (Effingham Wilson), containing the judgment in the Maokonochie and Parches oases, with "Notes and suggestions for the guidance of rectors and churchwardens ;" Brief Chapters on British Carpentry : History and Principles of Gothic Roofs, by Thomas Morris (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.); A Rudimentary Manual of Architecture, by Thomas Mitchell (Longmans); The Science of Building, by E. Wyndham Tarn, M.A. (Lockwood); What is Malaria? by 0. F. Oldham (H. K. Lewis), which announces that there is no such thing as "malaria," and that the diseases attributed to " malarlan influences" are due to chill, and which gives practical directions for the preservation of health, based upon this theory, directions whioh, whether or no the theory is true, are pretty certain to be useful ; A Handbook of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates, by John J. Bond (Boll and Daldy); Carving Made Easy, by A. Merrythought (Groonabridge), probably as useful as any book of the kind can be. Yet what does it profit a beginner to tell him, when he wants to know how to carve a fowl, " Take the wing off in the direction of A to B, dividing the joint with your knife, and oarrying it skilfully through as far as II." If he can " find the joint " and "carry the knife skilfully through," he does not need instruction. Unhappily he will miss the joint, and discover the irony which lurks in the next clause of our author's sentence,—" this should insure the division of a wing."
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