NEW EDITIONS.—In "The New Century Library" (Nelson and Sons), we
have Vol. V. of "The New Century Thackeray " (2s.), containing The Paris Sketch-Book, The Irish Sketch-Book, A Journey from Cornhill to Cairo.—Curiosities of Natural History. By Francis T. Buckland. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. per vol.)—There are four series of these admirable books, originally published between the years 1857 and 1865. Their success has been most marked, for the First Series has reached the twenty-first edition, the Second the sixteenth, the Third and Fourth the tenth And no one can doubt that the success has been thoroughly well deserved.—Two volumes of a somewhat similar kind, and, indeed, closely related, as being also the work of a devoted and acute observer of Nature, are Inmates of My House and Garden, and More About Wild Nature, by Mrs. Brightwen (T. Fisher Unwin, 2s. per vol.)—Simple Lectures for Company Field Train- ing. By Major A. W. A. Pollock. (W. Clowes and Sons. 3s. net.) —Major Pollock has been acting as correspondent to a London journal during the war in South Africa, and has taken advantage of the circumstance to bring his book up to date. He is able, however, to say that the alterations made necessary by recent developments in firearms are very few. Two chapters on the use of infantry in war„and the lessons of the Boer War in particular, have been added.
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