NEW EDITIONS.—Mr. R. W. Dale has prefixed to the "
seventh edition" of his lecture on The Atonement (Hodder and Stoughton) a remarkably interesting preface, in which he notices and replies to some of the more important criticisms which have appeared on his work. This is not the opportunity for discussing the force of this rejoinder, were we indeed disposed to do so. Mr. Dale maintains an objective theory of the Atonement. " The death of elitist has a direct relation to the remission of sin," it is not "simply a great appeal of the Divine Son to the human heart." He would allow, we suppose, that any one who accepted that fundamental proposition was practically in accord with him, that the form of this relation must remain undefined, however strongly a man may be persuaded of the truth and harmony of his own conception of it. It is pleasant to see the courtesy which Mr. Dale has received and reciprocates.—The Best Reading. Edited by Frederic Beecher Perkins. (Putman, New York.)—A work which describes itself on the title-page as "hints on the selection of books, on the formation of libraries, public and private, on courses of reading, ttc.," has reached an edition which the title-page declares to be the -"fourth," the binder the "fifteenth." In either case, it is a useful and deservedly popular hand-book.—Mr. Herbert Spencer's Education : Intellectual, Moral, and Physical (Williams and Norgate), appears in a cheap edition.—The Portrait Birthday Book of Famous Names .(Seeleys) is a work which we have a feeling of having neglected on its first appearance. The edition before us is enlarged and improved. The plan has been to select for every day in the year from two to six names of distinguished persons, who have happened to come into the world on that particular day. One of these persons supplies the portrait. This is an ingenious way of giving a now interest to the anniversary, which seems only accidentally to concern us. There is the advantage, too, that as the names have been chosen with a certain catholicity of taste, all tastes are to be gratified. The present writer, for instance, would be hard to please, if he were not satisfied with a choice between Catherine von Bora, Mrs. Hutchinson, Swedenborg, William Sharp, _tuber, and Sir James Outram.-31r. Wallace's Russia (Cassolls). A cheaper ono- volume edition of this valuable work has been issued,—We have also new editions of The Symbols of Christ, by Charles Stanford, D.D. (Reli- gious Tract Society); Select Poetry for Children, by Joseph Payne ; Maritime Warfare, by Thomas Gibson Brooks (W. Ridgway) ; Six to One (Sampson Low and Co.) Who Wrote It? A Dictionary of Common Poeti- cal Quotations in the English Language (Goo. Boll & Sons), appears in an enlarged edition.—Among reprints, we may mention Berkeley's Prin- ciples of Human Knowledge, by C. Simon, LL.D. (Tegg); and Ken's Manual of Prayers, for the Use of Winchester College (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge). The Survivors of Me' Chancellor,' by M. Jules Verne, appears in a cheaper form, (Sampson Low and Ca.)
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