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New EerrioNs.—The Hills and the Vale. By Richard Jefferies. With

Introduction by Edward Thomas. (Duckworth and Co. 6s.)—The volume includes eighteen essays, of which three appear for the first time, while the others are reprinted from various magazines and newspapers.—The Transition in Agriculture. By Edwin A. Pratt. (John Murray. ls.)—Lorna Dooms: a Romance of Exmoor. By R. D. Blackmore. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 21s. net.)—A volume in the " Dulverton Edition" of Black- more's works, a most attractive book, with its 'sixteen illustrations reproduced in colour from paintings by Charles E. Brittan and Charles E. Brock, together with an admirably conceived picture of Lorna Doone herself, which adorns the cover. This shows us just such a woman as the waiter imagined. Sometimes the, writer of a tale suffers nothing less than agony when he sees his heroine materialised by the illustrator.—in the Midst of Life, the second volume in the "Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce" (Neale Publishing Company, New York.)—Tables of European History, Literature, Science, and Art, A.D. 200-1909. By the late John Nichol, LL.D. Revised and Brought Down to Date. (J. liac.Lehose and Sons, Glasgow. 7s. 6d. net.)