NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—The Countess of Penibroke's Arcadia. By Sir
Philip Sidney. (Sampson, Low, and Coo -- Sterne's Sentimental Journey. (Routledge and Sons.)—An elegant miniature edition.—Sermons on the Prayer-Book and the Lord's Prayer. By F. D. Maurice. (Macmillan.)—Jeausalent, the Holy City. By Mrs. Oliphant. (Same publishers.)—The Bible by Modern Light. By Cunningham Geikie, 1).D. (Nisbet and Co.) —A new edition, enlarged, and in a great degree rewritten, of the author's "Hours with the Bible."—The Book of Good Counsels. From the Sanskrit of the "Hibopadesa." By Sir Edwin A.rnold. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—The Attic Orators, from, Antiphon to Teases. By R. C. Jebb, Litt.D. 2 vols. (Macuaillan.)—Darwiniana, and Method and Results. Two volumes of " Collected Essays," by T. H. Huxley. (Same publishers.)—The Blot upon the Brain : Studies in History and Psychology. By William W. Ireland, M.D. (Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh.)—A Popular Handbook to the Natio-nal Gallery. Compiled by Edward T. Cook, with Preface by John Ruskin. A " fourth edition, revised, rearranged, and enlarged."—The Wanderer. By the Earl of Lytton (" Owen Meredith"). (Longmans.)—A reprint of the first edition, in which, therefore, the corrections which the writer's maturer taste and judgment led him to make are discarded.—The Prose of Wordsworth. Selected and edited with an Introduction by William Knight, LL.D. (Walter Scott.)—In the " Border Edition " of the Waverley Novels, with Introductory Essays and Notes by Andrew Lang (John C. Nimmo), we have, in two volumes, The Pirate ; in the " Dryburgh Edition" (A. mad C. Black), The Abbot and Kenilworth; in the edition of the "Novels and Tales of Maria Edgworth" (J. M. Dent and Co.), Vivian, and The Absentee.—In Far Lochaber, and Sabrina Zansbra. By William Black. (Sampson, Low, Marston, and Co.)—Two on a Tower. By Thomas Hardy. (Same publishers.)--Pea Woffington, and. Christie Johnston. By Charles Reade. (Chatto and Winans.)__ Children of the King, and Don, Orsino. By F. Marion Crawford (Macmillan.)—Twice-Told Talcs. Second Series. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. (F. Warne and Co.)—Fiden Treveryan. By Sir Mortimer Durand. (Same publishers.)—The Marplot. By Sidney Royse Lyeaght. (Same publishers.) — Wutherina Heights, by Emily Brenta, and Agues Grey, by Anne Bronta. (J. M, Dent and Co.)—The Stickit Minister, and Some 00111111,014 Men. By S. R. Crockett. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Misogyny and, the Maiden. By Paul Cushing. (Routledge and Son.) And from the same publishers, Harry Dale's Jockey, by Nat 0 ould.— The Comic History of England. By Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, (John Dicks.)—Twenty-five Years in the Secret Service. By Major Henri Le Caron. (Heinemann.)—Bound London, Down East and up West. By Montagu Williams. (Mactuillan.)— Four Years in Parliament with Hard Labour, By C. W. Radcliffe Cooke, M.P. (Cassell and. Co.)—leoods for the Fat: the Scientific Cure of Corpulency. By Nathaniel Edward Yorke - Davies. (Chsato and . Windus.)—Indigestion, Gout, Corpulency, '4'e., Clearly Explained, Treated, and Dieted. By Thomas Dutton, M.D. (Henry Kimpton.) Messes. Marcus Ward and Co. send us a collection of orna- mental Calendars, Almanacs, and Cards for Christmas and the New Year, quite surprising in its variety and abundance. First we may mention, Time Flies : Calendar for 1894, with Quotations from Wordsworth. Each month has an appropriate quotation and an illustration in colours. On something of the same principle are The Christian Year Calendar for 1894, with Selections from Keble ; Happy Days Calendar, with miscellaneous quotations from English poets; the Pause Calendar, with Thoughts from Shakespeare ; Watchwords : a Calendar for 1894,—here the quota- tions are from Scripture. Then we have a variety of Almanacs intended to be hung up, with a removable date for each day in the year, and some accompanying quotation or motto. Of these we have,—Our Daily Portion, Helpful Texts for Even, Day, Our Daily Guide, similarly furnished ; and also Day unto Day : a Sacred Calendar ; and The Boudoir Calendar, with the same charac- teristics; Every Day, with Selections from Celebrated Authors ; The Tennyson Calender ; The Shakespeare Calendar ; and finally, The Office Calendar, with a space for memoranda on each day. The Calendar, with no distinctive name, resembles a shutter-blind, in which every month has a lath to itself. There is a Calendar constructed to stand ; one with a frame of metal filigree ; and another that folds together, with a leaf for each season.—The same publishers have issued a sot of pretty little books, neatly Printed and tastefully illustrated. "Lead, Kindly Light," and other Favourite Hymns ; the other hymns being "Sun of my Soul, Thou Saviour dear," "Rock of Ages, cleft for me," "Abide with me, fast falls the eventide," and "0 Lord, how happy should we be."—Flowers from. Keble, being selections from the "Christian Year."— Thoughts from Shakespeare. A particularly pleasing little volume, in which the flowers, and the sketches from the neigh- bourhood of Stratford-on-Avon, may be specially mentioned.— Footprints of Time. Verses by Frances Ridley Havergal. —The Chinese. By Sarah Doudney. Here, again, the landscapes are pleasing.—A long with these may be mentioned various specimens of Sunday-School Cards (these are in packets of twelve) ; Scripture Greetings, with New-Year Verses, by Georgiana M. Taylor; Pilgrims to Zion, with Scripture Texts and Verses, by Charlotte Murray ; inter- national Scripture Lessons, with Verses, by Charlotte Murray ; The Well of Bethlehem, with Christmas Stories, by the Rev. George E verard ; and by the same author, Sunbeams ; Loving Service, by Charlotte Murray ; A Happy Christmas, with appropriate verses by
Frances Ridley Havorgal. A. groat variety of single cards quite defies criticism or even description. There are among them some admirably painted flowers (though a very gay sweet-pea should not be described as "Only a tiny blossom, hidden from view "). The pansies are not as good as the rest ; they are, indeed, diffi- cult to do. Some of the landscapes, too, are worthy of special commendation, the river scenes especially. There are also some good "seascapes," with a brown-sailed fishing-smack in the fore- ground.
We have to mention packets of twelve cards from the Religious Tract Society, executed both with and without colour, and fur- nished with Scripture texts and mottoes.
We have also received from Messrs. Faulkner and Co. a profusion of Christmas Cards, various in shape and ornament. The favourite plan is to leave room for the name of the sender and person to whom it is to be sent. Some have verses expressing the good wishes intended. On the whole, we should prefer, with- out unduly disparaging these efforts to indicate our good wishes by the pictures of a bunch of flowers, a church, a cottage, a mill, or some simple transcript of nature than by words, unless, indeed, these words are one's own. A quotation from some recognised classic is of course another matter. We have also to acknow- ledge Upidee ; a Race-Course Game, which those who think proper may patronise.
Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons send us an abundant variety of Private Autograph, Cards for Christmas and the Now Year Here, too, greetings simply expressed will be found most suitable. The wish. for instance,— " May Fortuuo shower upon you Pare gold without alloy I "— is obviously doubtful, for it suggests unwelcome or disastrous visitations of gold. No objection, on the other hand, can be made to elegant little cards which contain calendars for the year, to ornamental volumes containing Selections front Longfellow, a Garland from Shelley, or the like ; or to the familiar card which contents itself with a picture of a bird, flower, or some simple landscape. A Century Calendar has an ingenious device by which you can find any day you have in mind from 1791 to 1920. Messrs. Tuck's Catalogue, which accompanies the selection sub- mitted to us, extends in all to more than a hundred pages. A Minuet Tableau Calendar displays a particularly elegant design.
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