Nsw EDITI0N8,—We have received the first seven volumes of a
miniature edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems, bearing the title of The Little quarto Shakespeare (Methuen and Co., ls. net per vol.) There are to be forty volumes, each of which Mr. W. J. Craig will °furnish with an introduc- tion and notes.-77to Rise of the Dutch Republic. By John Lothrop Motley. Vol. I. (John Murray.. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mixed Essays : Last Essays on Church and Religion, and Friendship's (arland. By Matthew Arnold. The PoPular Edition." (Smith, Elder, and Co. 28. 6d. per vol.)--.Tohn Addington Symonds : a Biography. By Horatio F. Brown. '(Egeme publishers. 7s. 6d.) —Mr. Brown prefixes an interesting note to this edition, in which he deals with a criticism that has been passed on the portraiture of Symonds, chiefly as delineated by his own hand, that it was too gloomy for the truth. He tells us that after a re-examination of the materials he could not come to any different conclusion. Pages from a Private Diary, by " Urbanns Sylvan" (same publishers, 5s.), contains a new and quite delightful preface, in which the witty diarist tells us ho* the secret of the diary's authorship leaked out. Readers of this charming and,humorons book will be delighted to find that it has received the "laurel crown" of a new edition.—Place-Nantes of Scotland. By James B. Johnston, B.D. (David Douglas. 6s. net.)—From Messrs. Mackie and Son we have received a number of reissues of popular gift-books, most of which we remember having noticed in past time :—Margery Merlins's Girlhood, 'by Alice Corkran (2s. 6d.) ; With the Sea-Kings, by F. H. Winder (2s. 6d.) ; A Mystery of the Pacific, by Oliphant Smeaton (38.) ; The War of the Are, by Percy -J. Groves (28. 6d.) ; The Wreck of the Golden Fleece, by Robert Leighton (38.) ; and Is the King's Name, by G. Manville Fenn (38. 6d.) ,
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