New EDITIONS.-The Bible in Spain. By George Borrow. (J. Lane.
2s.)-We are especially glad to see a cheap reprint of this book, one which may be read, perhaps, with more unmixed pleasure than any of Borrow's writing. What a strange story it is ! and what a man ! He goes to Lisbon, hires a Portuguese servant, and "talks Portuguese" in a fortnight with tolerable fluency. And the energy with which he did his work ! The authorities must have been glad to see the last of him.-The Holly Tree and the Seven Poor Travellers. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by C. E. Brock. (J. M. Dent and Co.)-Peter Simple. By Captain Marryat. Illustrated by J. A. Symington. (Same publishers. 3s. 643.. net.)-Vathek. By William Beck- ford. With Notes by W. E. Henley and Introduction by Dr. Garnett. (Gibbings and Co. 2s. 6d.)-DarieL By R. D. Blackmore. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 2s. 6d.)- The Temple. By the Rev. Dr. Edersheim. (R.T.S.)-An " account of the Temple ministry and services as they were in the time of Jeans Christ," sufficiently commended by the name of its author, whose acquaintance with the subject was unequalled.-Sintram and his Companions. By the Baron de la Motto Fouque. Translated by A. M. Richards. Illustrated by Anna Richards. (Freemantle and Co.)-James Mac- donell, Journalist. By W. Robertson Nicoll. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)-In the "Temple Classics" (J. M. Dent and Co., Is. 6d. net per voL), Afacautay's Essays, Vols. IV. and V.; and Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford.-d Century of Continental History, 1780-1880. By J. H. Rose, M.A. (E. Stanford.)-Fights for the Flag. By the Rev. W. H. Fitchett. (G. Newnes and Co. 6d.)-Farthest North, by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the ' Fram ' (A. Constable and Co., 6s.), containing the record of the ' Fram's ' voyage 1893-96, and Dr. Nausea's and Lieutenant Johansen's sleigh voyage.-In the series of " Victor Hugo's Novels " (J. M. Dent and Co., 2a. 6d. net), Bug Jargal, translated by Eugenia de B. This was Victor Ilugo'a first book, touched up afterwards, but substantially, he tells us, his earliest production. It is a story of San Domingo.- Also in the same series, The Last Day of a Condemned (2s. 6d. net).
• ' He does not know," wrote M. Hugo of himself (under data March, 1832), " any aim more elevated, more holy, than that of seeking the abolition of capital punishment." The world was not a little disposed to agree with him in those days, as the penal codes of various countries testify. We fancy that dynamite and Anar- chism have done something to bring about a reaction. -The Romany-Bye. By George Borrow. With Special Introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton.. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 2s.)-The Interpreter: a Tale of the War. By G. J. Whyte-Melville. (Same publishers. 3s. 6d.)-Mr. Isaacs. By F. Marion Crawford. (Macmillan and Co. as. 61.) -We are glad to see that Dr. George Newman's excellent account of Bacteria (John Murray, 6s) has passed into a second edition, in which are incorporated new and interesting facts regarding the industrial applications of bacteriology and the study of tropical diseases.
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