NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—In " The New Century Library "
(Nelson and Sons, 2s. net per volume) we have Old Mortality and The Legend of Montrose and The Black Dwarf, being the fifth and sixth volumes of "The New Century Scott." We have mentioned more than once this excellent edition, which is, indeed, for cheapness, clearness of type, and general con- venience, as good as can be desired.—In " The Little Library," always admirable for its print, paper, and general get-up (Methuen and Co., ls. 6d. net per volume), The Vision of Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Francis Cary, M.A. ; Part II., " Pnrgatory " ; revised with an Introduction by Paget Toynbee, M.A.—We are glad to see a new edition in eight volumes of The History of Religion in England, by John Stoughton, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton, 21s. net). The :vork is in two parts. Vols. I.-VI. contain the narrative of events from 1640 down to the end of the eighteenth century. These have an index of their own. Vols. give the his- tory of " The Church of the First Half of the Nine- teenth Century," to which is appended a " Postcript," carry- ing on the narrative down to the year 18SO. These have an index in which the volumes, we see, are numbered " I., II." It would, we should think, have been worth while to prefix to the edition some notice of the author and of his work. Nonconformity has produced few men of superior or even equal learning and culture. In any case, it is a matter of rejoicing that a work so distinguished by candour and the desire to do equal justice all round should have been brought within the reach of another generation. Vols. I.-VI. are, we see, in a fourth, VII.-VIII. in a second, edition.—The Rwbciiyat of Omar Khayytint, a Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations by Richard Le Gallienne (Grant Richards, 5s. net.), appears in a third edition, with a few revisions and fifty additional quatrains.
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