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NEW EDITIONS.—Studi es and Characters from the Old Testament. By the

late Thomas Guthrie, D.D. First Series. (Burnet and Isbister.)—The Church Catechism. With Notes by " E. M." Illustrated. (S.P.C.K.)—Songs and Tales of St. Columba and his Age. (Patrick Geddes and his Colleagues, Edinburgh.)—Pub- lished on the occasion of the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of St. Columba's death (June 9th, 597), an event curiously near in time to the baptism of King Ethelbert —Bells and Pomegranates. Second Series. By Robert Browning. A volume in the "Nine- teenth Century Classics." Edited by Clement K. Shorter. (Ward, Lock, and Co )—Annals of Rural Bengal. By Sir William Wilson Hunter. (Smith, Elder, and Co.) —In Darkest Africa. By Henry M. Stanley, M.P. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—In the "Temple Classics" (J. M. Dent and Co.), we have the first of a proposed series of six volumes to contain Boswell's Life of Johnson, and Vol. III. of Carlyle's History of the French Revolution.—A Bird's Eye View of our Civil War. By Theodore S. Dodge. (Gay and Bird.)—In the series of "Illustrated Standard Novels" (Macmillan and Co.), Frank Mildmay, by Captain Marryat, Illustrated by H. R. Millar.—A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. By Honore de Balzac. Trans- lated by Ellen Marriage. With a Preface by George Saintsbury. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—A Golfing Idyll. (W. C. Henderson and Son, St. Andrews.)—An amusing account in fluent verse of the doggrel kind of "The Skipper's Round with the Deil on the Links of St. Andre ws."—The Pursuit of the House-Boat. By the Author of " A House-Beat on the Styx." (Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)