New EDITIONS AND EZTRINTS.—In the "Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain
and Coloured Books" (Methuen and Co., 38. 6d. net) we have Walton's Campleat Angler. The edition is, we are told, "founded on the second edition published by John Major in the year 1825." Surely this is a little misleading. The real second edition of The Compleat Angler was published long ago. "Major's second edition" is a very different thing.—George Herbert's Temple : Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (G. Bell and Sons, 15s. net), a handsome volume of small quarto size.— The Old Testament in the Light of Assyrian and Babylonian &cords. By Theophilus G. Pinches. (S.P.C.K. 7s. 6d.)—Popular History of the Ancient Britons. By John Evans. (Elliot Stock. 5s.)— Pompei: as it Was and as it Is. By Begot Molesworth, M.A. (Skeffington and Son. 10s. net.)—Gilbert of Sempringham. By Rose Graham. (Elliot Stock. 6s.)—We are glad to see the series of "Hall-Forgotten Books," edited by E. H. Baker, M.A. (Routledge and Sons). It has been in progress for some time, but has not come to our notice till quite recently, The volumes before us are Old London Bridge, by G. H. Rodwell ; Whitefriars, by Emma Robinson ; Tont Bulkeley, by R 11ounteney Jephson ; The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Mrs. Radcliffe; Caleb Williams, by W. Godwin ; Black Sheep, by E. Yates; and Sam Slick the Clockmaker, by Judge Haliburton.—The Cutting of Vegetables and Flowers, by Sutton and Sons (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 5s. net), has reached an eleventh edition.—Dictionary of Hygiene. By C. T. Kingzett and D. Homfray.
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