NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—We have before us two very elegant
examples of the Handy- Volume Series (Bradbury and Evans). Shen- stone's Essays on Men and Manners, though often trito and common- place, are too good for the general oblivion into which they have fallen. To have been reprinted but once in the last seventy years is a hard fate, when we think of the rubbish that d tiring that time has not only been published, but has met with the success of repeated editions. Mr. Shirley Brooke' Gordian Knot has met and will meet with many more readers. It is not, to our mind, an edifying story. The complications that arise when a man who has kept a mistress marries a wife are a favourite subject with Mr. Brooks; but we do not share his preference. Of the series of "English Reprints" edited by Edward Arbor we have received three, Selden's Table Talk, Roger Aschatn's Toxophilus, and a very rare book, Stephen Gosson's Schoole of Abuse, with the Apologie- We see that one or more volumes are to appear every month, the Duke of Buckingluun's Rehearsal and the life and works of George Gascoign being advertised as the volumes for November. We wish all success to this useful undertaking. Of the Clarendon Press Series- we have Book I. of Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, edited by R. W. Church, M.A., with notes which seem satisfactorily full without being too long, and a glossary which, as Hooker's language is very seldom obsolete, should rather be called an index of remarkable expressions. A new edition of the Handbook to the Highland Railway System, by George and Peter Andersen (John Menzies, Edinburgh), contains, it propos of Killiekrankie, an account of the death of Viscount Dundee, derived from local authorities which are apparently reliable, and differing from the ordinary narrative. Dundee, it would seem, was killed as he was standing on a knoll, now called Tom Clavers, in the garden of Urrard House, by a shot fired from the dwelling. The spot shown as the place where he fell, by the side of the public road, is said to have been the place where General Halliburton of Pitcar mot his death. From the same authors and publishers we have A Guide to Inverness. In IVeale's Rudimentary Series we have a fifth edition of Mr. E. B. Denison's book on Clocks, Watches, and Bells. The Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Sin, by Professor Muller, of Halle, translated by the Rev. W. Urwick, one of the valuable series of the Foreign Theological Library (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh), has reached a second edition. Messrs. Stevens and Son print a Report of the Case of the "Queen v. Eyre" with the evidence, the charge of Mr. Justice Blackburn, and the subsequent observations of the Lord Chief Justice.
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