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Nmw EDITION d. — Lities of the Saints. By the Rev. S.

Baring- Gould. Vol. V., May. (John C. Nimmo.)—Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer. By J. Howard Collins. With a Preface by Herbert Spencer. (Williams and Norgate.)— Renaissance in Italy : the Fine Arts. By John Addington Symonds. (Smith and E)der.)—The Making of England. By John Richard Green. 2 vols. (Macmillan and Co.)—Modern Painters. By John Ruskin, LL.D. 2 vols. (G. Allen.)— The Epic of Sounds : an Elementary Interpretation of Wagner's Nibelungen Ring." By Freda Winworth. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—Catamtes : Letters written during 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle. (Laurens Maynard, Boston, U.S.A.)—Seraphita. By Honor6 de Balzac. Translated by Clara Bell. With a Preface by George Saintsbnry. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—Taguisarc. By F. Marion Crawford. (Macmillan and Co.)—Robinson on Gavelkind, with Additions relating to Borough - English. By Charles I. Elton, Q.C., and Herbert J. H. Mackay, LL.B. (Butterworth and Co.)—Of the new Series of "Downey's Sixpenny Library" (Downey and Co.), a venture which makes it appear that there is a larger public of readers than one would have thought, five volumes are now before us,— Frankenstein, by Mrs. Shelley ; The O'Dtmoghue, by Charles Lever ; The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., by W. M. Thackeray ; Mr. Midshipman Easy, by Captain Marryat ; Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens.