French Readings for Beginners. By Ed. Malvin. (Hachette.) — This will
be found a helpful little volume. It contains fifty odd extracts, in prose and verse, furnished with a complete vocabulary, and brought into a very reasonable compass. The extracts are well chosen ; each has its point. The word " beginner" must, indeed, be taken with a limitation; the sentences with which the selection opens are beyond the reach of quite young children, but well-suited to a learner who is working out a language new to him. He, too, will have to use his wits to get from " C'est en faisant le bonheur des autres qu'on fait son propre bonheur" on p. 1 to the conclusion on p. 29 Je commis mon bonheur, et glean monde tit none sommes Nul ne peut se venter do re passer des hurnines; ht depuis ea jour-11 jo les ai tuns sim8s."
In the very full series, noticed several times already in these columns, of the Anglican Pulpit Library (Hodder and Stoughton), we have the portion covering from Easter to Ascension Tide.
Black's Guide to the English Lakes (A. and C. Black) appears in a twenty-second edition under the editorship of A. P. Hope Mon- crieffe. More than twenty years have elapsed since its first publi- cation, and it has been thoroughly revised, or rather rewritten.
Of devotional books we have to mention :—The Power of the Spirit. Selections from William Law, by Rev. Andrew Murray. (Nisbet and Co.)—Hymns and Meditations. By A. L. Waring. (S.P.C.K.) —"A new edition."—Stray Thoughts for Invalids. By Lucy H. M. Sonlsby. (Longmans and Co.)—Three Hours at the Cross : a Manual for Good Friday. By the Rev. W. J. Hocking. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.) We have received :—The Medical Register, 1896 (Eyre and Spottiswoode), containing, besides the names and qualifications of registered practitioners in medicine and surgery generally and midwifery, Acts of Parliament bearing on the profession, and a variety of other information. The total number of names remaining on the books is 33,601 for the United Kingdom, of whom just under three-fifths belong to England, Scotland having not quite four-fifteenths, and Ireland a little more than two- fifteenths. The disproportion of these numbers to the population is remarkable. Scotland has far more than its skare in relation to both the other countries.—From the same publishers we have The Dentists' Register.—The Handbook of Jamaica. Compiled by S. P. itill£901). and T. Laurence Roxburgh. (E. Stanford.)— The estimated population on March 31st, 1894, was 672,762. The revenue and expenditure were both a little over three-quarters of a million, the balance being on the right side.—The Calendar of the Royal University of Dublin. (Alex. Thom and Co.)—Death- Duty Tables. By A. W. Norman, B.A. (W. Clowes and Sons.) Vol. IV. of Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. (Cassell and Co.)—From the same publishers the half-yearly volume of Work, an "Illustrated Weekly Journal for Mechanics." —The Medical Annual and Practitioner's Index (Wright and Co , Bristol), containing an account of the advances that have been made in medicine and surgery during 1895, and a 'variety of cog- nate information.
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