NEW EDITIONS.—Vire have received :—A third edition of The Little
Cyclopo3dia of Common Things, by the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, M.A. (Swan, Sonnenschein, and Co.) A handy book the usefulness of which would be much enhanced were the reasons more often given why certain metals and articles are used in the arts and manufac- tures,—why, for instance, antimonyis used as a component part of type-metal, &c.—A third edition of Haska, a drama, by H. Spicer ; second and revised edition of Beowulf, an old English poem trans- lated into modern rhymes, by Lientenant-Colonel H. W. Lumsden. (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co.) — Queen's College Calendar for 1883-84; an English edition of Cassel's Manual of Jewish History and Literature, translated by Mrs. Henry Lucas. (Macmillan and Co.)—The British Almanac for 1884 (Stationers' Company), the " companion " addition to which contains the usual history of the peat year.—Calendar of the University College of Wales, 1883-4. (Cornish, Manchester.) —A second and revised edition of Personality the Beginning and End of Metaphysics, by the Rev. A. W. Momerie, MLA. (Blackwood and Sons.)—A ninth edition of The Spiritual Life, by T. Griffith, A.M., late Prebendary of St. Paul's; to which is pre- fixed "In Memoriam," by his Son. (Suttaby and Co.)—Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1883, the sixteenth annual issue, by H. V. Poor. (Effingham Wilson, London ; Messrs. Poor, New York.)— A revised and enlarged edition of The Barber's Shop, by R. W. Procter (Heywood and Son, Manchester; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London.) —A second edition of Dr. Take's Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind upon the Body. (Churchill.)—A second edition of Mozley's Review of the Baptismal Controversy. (Rivingtons.)—A new and revised edition of Morison's Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—A second edition of Marshall's Anatomy for Artists. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—A new edition of A Primer of American Literature, by C. F. Richardson. (Houghton and Co., New York.)—A pocket edition of The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes. (D. Douglas.)—A second edition of Evolu- tion Explained and Compared with the Bible, by W. W. Smyth. (Elliot Stock.)—A. revised edition of the History of the Knights of Malta, by Major.General Whitworth Porter, R.E. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—A revised and enlarged edition of the Annotated Book of Common Prayer, by the Rev. J. H. Blunt, D.D. (Rivingtona) —The Works of John Dryden, revised and corrected by G. Saintsbxwy. Vols. III., IV., V., and 'VI., "Dramatic Works." (W. Paterson, Edinburgh.)
[Messrs. T. and T. Clark, of Edinburgh, request us to state that by arrangement with the American publishers, they are issuing for the English market an edition of Professor Harris's book on The Philoso- phical Basis of Theism, reviewed at length in our issue of January 12th.3
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