NEW EDITIONS. — The third edition of Mr. Edward White's Life in
Christ (Elliot Stock) presents the result produced upon the writer's thought and argument by the criticism which it has received in various quarters. That this criticism, even when it has been adverse,, has generally been of a kindly and appreciative kind, must be a matter of groat thankfulness to all who have an interest in the advance of Christian truth. We cannot give an assent to Mr. White's teaching, though we see in it a vast advance on the insincere, and indeed impossible, dogma of the popular theology. But we are heartily rejoiced to see so much support and favour ex. tended to an able and courageous attempt to deal with a subject which most divines are content to pass in an economical silence.— We have received from Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton the first volume of a popular edition of the Lectures Delivered at the, Request of the Christian Evidence Society.—That very able monograph by the late Mr. James Smith (of jordanhill), The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul, appears in a fourth edition, "revised and corrected" by Mr. Walter E. Smith, the writer's grandson, we believe, and furnished with a preface by the Bishop of Carlisle. Mr. Smith's treatise is quite ex- haustive of the subject, and can scarcely fail to remain the standard authority. It is a model of whet such a book should be, and abounds. to an extent which would surprise most readers in interesting matter, An admirable dissertation "On the Ships of the Ancients" follows the main work.—The Coal-fields of Great Britain, by Edward Hill, M.A., LL.D. (Stanford), has reached a fourth edition, which has been furnished with official reports and statistics up to the latest date to which they are now accessible. It is satisfactory for our future, if not for our present, to see that the increase of coal consumption has been arrested. The output has been stationary for three or four years, and it is not improbable that the quantity now in store is very large. At the present rate, we have enough, it seems, to last us for a thousand years.—We have to acknowledge the fourth volume of the Complete Works of Bret Harte, collected and revised by the author (Ghetto and Winclus). It contains "Gabriel Conroy."
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