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NEW Burr/of/ea.—Among these we may mention first, as having at

the present time an interest which cannot well be exaggerated, The Coalfields of Great Britain, by Edward Hull (Stanford). Ten years or more have elapsed from the publication of the first volume, and the question has during that time materially changed its aspect. The exhaustion or virtual exhaustion of our coalfields is no longer a matter which we can contentedly relegate to the attention of a remote posterity. The Royal Commission's Report gave us a hint of so much, and we have lately had a more practical and probably more effective warning. Mr. Hull has incorporated recent facts into what is practically a new book; at the saute time he has added much that lies beyond the scope of the title, that is to say, some very valuable and interesting information about the coalfields of the Continent, of British possessions, and indeed of the world in general.--We have received five volumes bearing the common title of Romance of History (Warne). Each vdlmne is devoted to a separate country. The five are—Italy, by C. Macfarlane; France, by Leitch Ritchie ; India, by the Rev. Hobart Caunter ; England, by Henry Neale ; and Spain, by Don T. de Trueba. Each volume is fur- nished with illustrations.—We have also before us a new edition of Dr. Johnson's Rambler, with Sir W. Scott's biographical sketch prefixed,. 2 vols. (Tegg); of Directoriunz Pastorale, by the Rev. J. H. Blunt (Rivingtons); of The Gospel of the World's Divine Order, by D. Camp- bell (Trabner); of The Problem of the World and the Church Recon- sidered, by a Septuagenarian, revised and edited by J. Baoth (Long- mans); and of Dr. Newman's Difficulties Felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching (Burns and Oates).--Dr. B. Williamson's Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus (Longmans) appears in a revised and enlarged edition.—We have also to notice The Complete Poetical Works of .T. G. Whittier, household edition (Boston, U.S., Osgood); and a new edition of Professor G. F. Armstrong's Ugone : a Tragedy (Longmans).