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• In "Routledge's New Universal Library" (G. Routledge and 'Sons,

is. and 2s. per vol.), we have a number of new volumes, all of them valuable additions, and some such as we could hardly have expected. We may mention Earth and Man, by Professor Kirchhoff, Translated by A. Sonnenschein. This edition contains • a special chapter on "The British Isles and Britons," and a chapter added by the translator on "America and the Americans." Other volumes are : Stories from the Italian Poets, by Leigh Hunt, Vol. I., "Dante and Pulci," Vol. II., "Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso"; The Man of Feeling, by Henry Mackenzie ; Pictures of Old England, by Reinhold Pauli, Translated by E. C. Otte; Wild Wales, by George Borrow; The Dramatic Works of Christopher Marlowe ; Works of Jonathan Swift, I., "Journal to Stella "; Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne ; Dante and Anselm, by Dean Church ; Guesses at Truth, by Augustus J. and Julius C. Hare ; The Age of Chivalry, by Thomas Bulfinch.—In the same publishers' "Muses' Library" we have Thomson's Seasons, with Biographical Note and Critical Study by Edmund Gosse, and the same poet's Castle of Indolence, and other Poems, both volumes being Edited by Mr. Henry D. Roberts ; The Book of Praise, Selected and Arranged by Roundell Palmer (Earl of Selborne) ; The Poems of Thomas Love Peacock, Edited by Brimley Johnson. In their "English Library," A Select Glossary, by Richard Chenevix Trench, Edited, with Notes, by A. Smythe Palmer, D.D.—In the "World's Classics" (H. Frowde, is. nut), Bacon's Advancement of Learning and The New Atlantis, and Sophocles Translated into English Verse, by Lewis Campbell, M.A.