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BOOIKS RECEIVED. — The Lesser Parables of Our Lord, by the Rev.

William Arnot, with biographical treatise by Canon Bell (Nelson and Sons).—Memoir of Charles Lowe, by his wife, Martha Perry Lowe (Cupples, Upham, and Co., Boston, U.S.).—Pity for the Perishing, by G. Holden Pike (James Clarke and Co.), an interesting account of philanthropic labours undertaken for the benefit of the London and suburban poor.—Travellers' Talk on England's Crisis, by Samuel Wainwright, D.D. (Hatchards).—Citizen Soldiers, by Captain W. Spenser Wilkinson (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— How to Train a Company, by Captain C. Fuller (Thacker and Spink, Bombay).—r—The Gold Treasure of India, by Clermont Daniell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.).—The Words of Christ, by John Baxom (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York).—Here and There in God's Garden, by " Fidelia " (J. T. Hayes).—Personality, Human and Divine, by William W. Olsar (Sattaby and Co.).—Across the Hills, by Frances Mary Owen (Began Paul, Trench, and Co.) —The Christian Church in the Apostolic Times, by Henry W. J. Trench, "the second English from the third German edition* (Thomas Boswortb).—The Lord's Supper, Historically CM* sidered, by G. A. Jakob, D.D. (H. Frowde), a brief account, with some additions of the author's own, of the elaborate work on the same embject.—Reveries of a Bachelor ; or, a Book of the Heart, by D. G. Mitchell (Sampson Low and Co.), a "new and revised edition." --Lady Eastlake republishes from the Edinburgh and Quarterly six essays on Five Great Painters, 2 vols. (Longmans).—The "great painters" are Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Titian (to whom two of the six essays are given), Raphael, and Albert Diirer.—On Art, we have also Lectures on Painting, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, by Edward Armitage, B.A. (Thibner and Co.)— China Painting, by Florence Lewis (Cassell and Co). With a "General Introduction," giving particulars of materials to be used, directions for nee, &c., and a collection of Plates, graduated in diffi- culty, so as to lead up to figures.—English Pottery and Porcelain, being "a concise account of the development of the potter's art in England (the Bazaar Offiae).—Turning for Amateurs, by James Lakin, BA., a "new edition, revised and enlarged" (L. Upcott Gill, —Among the Wild Flowers, by the Rev. Harry Wood (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The Patents, Designs, and Trade Mark Acts, by James Johnson and J. Henry Johnson (Longmans).—Spanish Woollens and Worsted, by Walter S. Bright Ma.claren, B.A. (Cassell and Co.).—The series of Geographical Primers and Readers, edited by Professor Meiklejohn (Blackwood and Sons), the explanatory illustrations in which are well conceived.—The shorter Globe Readers, for Standards II., III., IV., and V., edited by A. F. Munson, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.), the arrangement and illustration of which are excellent.—A Sixth Reader (W. Isbister).—Geographical Reader, Book III., by J. R. Blakiston, M.A. (Griffith and Ferran). —Chemistry, by W. Odling (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—Portuguese Dictionary, by A. Elwes (Crosby Lockwood and Co.), being an addi- tion to the well-known " Weale's Series."—The shilling editions of Walford's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and House of Commons for 1884 (Chatto and Windus).—Some volumes in connection with the Tenth Census of the United States, Vol. IV.—Report of the Census of the Panjdb, by D. C. J. Ibbetson, of the Bengal Civil Ser- vice.—The Medical Register and The Dentists' Register for 1884 (Spottiswoode and Co.)—On the Formation of Uric Acid in Animals : its Relation to Gout and Gravel, by P. W. Latham, M.A., M.D. (Bell and Sons).—Daily Exercises for the Voice, by A. B. Bach (Metzler and Co.).