A Book of Thoughts. By "H. A." (Macmillan and Co.)—A
pretty little volume of extracts from eminent writers, English, French, and German, with translations of the two latter classes. They are mostly moral and didactic, and are well selected.
We have also received a Supplement to the Chorale Book for England (Longman and Co.), containing English hymns set to appropriate tunes for congregational use; also a small edition of the Chorale Book itself, and the supplement to it suited for parishioners—the larger one being better fitted for the choristers; all are handsomely printed, give the music as well as the hymns, and are bound in limp cloth; also a fourth edition of Mrs. Oliphant's excellent Life of Irving (Hurst and Blackett) in one volume, with a portrait ; the fourth and fifth volumes of Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England (Bell and Daldy), with por- traits of Anne of Denmark and Mary of Modena ; a new edition of Mr. Daniel Scrymgeour's Poetry and Poets of Britain (A. and C. Black), splendidly bound and gilt-edged, with a photograph of Tennyson, rather dark and blotchy, prefixed ; a now and revised edition of Dr. MacCosh's intuitions of the Mind (Macmillan and Co.); the third volume of the collected edition of Irving's Works (Alexander Strahan), which contains his sermons on "Prayer, Praise, and Family and Social Religion," together with some "Discourses on Public Occasions ;" the fifth series of Mr. B. 0. Jones's Lectures on the Greek Poets, and anything else which comes into his head (W. H. Allen and Co.), consisting mainly of attacks on Christianity which would be offensive, if they did not show the author to be scarcely responsible for his opinions ; also the second part of Dr. Vaughan's Lectures on the Acts, entitled The Church of the First Days (Macmillan and Co); this part is called The Cluvrch of the Gentiles, and, like tho first part, seems to us unequal to the other writings of its eminent author ; also two volumes of the Select Library of Fiction (Chapman and Hall), namely, Lady Scott's Only Child and Harrison Ainsworth's Constable of the Tower ; also Vol. IV. of The Children's Friend (Seeley and Co.), an illustrated pious magazine for babes ; also Limited Monarchy, Fellow Travellers, and Tried and True, three minute tracts by the Rev. J. Fordyce (Nelson and Sons); The Impending Woes of Europe (Elliot Stock), a paznplalet mis- interpreting the apocalypse ; Mr. Jay's Second Letter on Dawson's Introduction to the Federalist (Trubner and Co.); The Indian Land Question, by Indopolite (Smith, Elder, and Co.), two series of papers reprinted from The Times of India; a Letter to Lord Stanley, by the same writer (J. Davy and Sons), advocating the claims of Azoom Jah to the title of Nawaub of the Carnatic ; Helps to Prayer (John H. and J. Parker), intended chiefly for "young persons who have been recently confirmed ;" The Southern Provinces Almanac/c, Directory, and Year-Book for 1865, published by Ward and Reeves, of Christchurch, New Zealand, of which the utility is proved by its having reached the twelfth year of its existence; and lastly, Vacher's Monthly Parliamentary Companion (Vacher and Sons), giving the residences of the Peers and M.P.s, and all other information necessary to persons engaged in Parlia- mentary business, at a small price and in a most convenient form.
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