27 DECEMBER 1890, Page 25

What to Read : Sunday Readings in Prose. (Religious Tract

Society.)—Mr. Frederick Langbridge has put together a number of extracts from well-known writers on religious subjects. John Fox, Jeremy Taylor, Southey, Dean Vaughan, and Archdeacon Farrar are among the names in the table of contents. The ex- tracts number about fifty in all.—True Stories from Italian History. Compiled by F. Bayford Harrison. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—In this volume, Thierry, Sismondi, Mrs. Oliphant, Mr. A. J. Hare, Signori Silvestie and Marotta, and many others, have been laid under contribution, with a book full of interest as the result.