Between the Lights. Compiled and arranged by Fanny B. Bates.
(Burnet and Co.)—The compiler has gone over a wide range of reading in her selection of these devotional extracts. Each day of the year has had a poem and a prose extract chosen for it, the purpose for which they have been chosen being expressed by the second title of the volume, " Thoughts for the Quiet Hour." Such a book can only be tested by daily use, but we may say that it seems to promise well.
We are glad to see a third edition, at a reduced price, of The Organisation of the Christian Churches. By Edwin Hatch, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—This, it will be remembered, was the " Bampton Lecture " for 1880, one of the most remarkable contributions to ecclesiastical history that has been made for many years ; all the more remarkable because it was so closely followed by the discovery of " The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," a discovery which went some way towards confirming its conclusions.
We have to notice three volumes of "The Universal Library." These are The Seven Sons of George III., The Queen and the Royal Family, and Our Premiers, from Walpole to Salisbury. All are written by Mr. J. Ewing Ritchie (the third having " additions by J. Munro "), and are published by Messrs. Charles and Co. Mr. Ritchie writes with freedom where freedom is possible, and can be discreet where discretion is needed. These are readable little volumes.
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