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}Taw EomoNs.—The Epistle of St. James. With Introduction, Notes, and

Comments by Joseph B. Mayor, Litt.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—This second edition of a work which was reviewed at length in the Spectator on its first appearance has received con- siderable additions. The most important of these is a further argument on the early date of the Epistle, specially addressed to the objections brought forward by Adolf Harnack and F. Spitta. There cannot be a more important point. It is too much, perhaps, to say that it is necessary to establish the priority of St. James's dicta on "Faith and Works " to those of St. Paul ; but it would be difficult to exaggerate the advantage of having this point made out. If St. James wrote with St. Paul's words before him, it is hardly possible to deny that they are a censure.—Lives of the Saints. By the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. Vol. VI. (June). (John C. Nimmo.)—Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. Vol. II. (the work to be completed in six). (J. M. Dent and Co.) —A volume of the " Temple Classics."—Fire and Sword in the Soudan. By Rudolf C. Slatin Pasha, C.B. Translated by Colonel F. R. Wingate, C.B. (E. Arnold.) — A cheap popular edition of this interesting book appears most appositely in view of the renewed advance of the Anglo-Egyptian Army against the llhalifa.—The Eastern Question. By Karl Marx. Edited by Eleanor Mary Aveling and Edward Aveling, D.Sc. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—" A reprint of letters written 1853-56, dealing with the events of the Crimean War."—Three Years in Western China. By Alexander Hosie, M.A. (George Philip and Son.)—Six Generations of Friends in Ireland, /655 1890. By J. M. R. (Headley Brothers.)—Pictorial And Descriptive Guide to Switzerland. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—A "new and thoroughly revised edition."—" The Continong." By Anar de In Grenouillere. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—A guide to France and French (as she is spoke).—Abridged and Popular Edition of the Official Guides to Railways. (Cassell and Co.)—. Here are eight volumes dealing with the great lines which have their termini in London. A passenger can hardly spend the very modest price (threepence) which is asked for these books to more advantage.—The Seamy Rule of History. By Honore de Balzac. Translated by Clara Bell. With a Preface by George Saintsbury. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—The Tower of London. By William Harrison Ainsworth. (G. Routledge and Sons.)—Masterman Ready. By Captain Marryat. (Macmillan and Co.)