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NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—We have received a fifth edition of

Hours with the Mystics, by Robert Alfred Vaughan, B.A. (J. Slark).—This is a reprint from the third edition, published ten years ago by Mr. Wycliffe Vaughan. The book itself is now just thirty-three years old. To have survived a generation of mankind is not a very common distinction.—In the " Christian Classics Series" (Religious Tract Society), we have a reprint of William Tyndale's Obedience of a Christian Man, edited, with a Biographical Sketch, Introduction, and Analysis, by Richard Lovett, M.A. — The Population of an Old Pear-Tree ; or, Stories of Insect Life. From the French of C. Van Bruysell. Edited by the Author of " The Heir of Redclyffe." (Macmillan.)—Ince and Gilbert's Outlines of English History. Six hundred and twenty-fourth thousand. Revised and corrected by. Arthur Hassell, M.A. (W. H. Allen and Co.) —Every Man His Own Lawyer. By a Barrister. Twenty-sixth edition. (Crosby Lockwood and Son.)—The work has, we are told, been "reconstructed, thoroughly revised, and much en- larged." It bears the fascinating legend of, " No more lawyers' bills."—In the series of "Canterbury Poets" (Walter Scott), we have Poems by Dora Greenwell (selected), with a Biographical Introduction by William Dorling.