The World of Light. By Adeline, Duchess of Bedford. (Skeffington
and Son.) — By an accident, which we regret, the Duchess of Bedford's little book of extracts from early Greek liturgies has escaped our review until now when, amid many jostling volumes, we can but recommend it, and no more. Yet these prayers for the dead, alien to our habits of thought as their editor admits some of them to be, deserve to be known widely and to be tenderly and closely studied. The notes with which they are here equipped and the editor's introductory essay are not only scholarly and suggestive, but are written with much quiet dignity and beauty of language. All to whom the mystery of death and separation are the greatest of personal questions will find subject for thought and interest in this little book.
Of books that have something of the tourist-help or holiday character we have received s—The Shakespearean Guide to Stratford- on-Avon. By H. Snowden Ward and Catharine Weed Ward. (Dawbarn and Ward.)—A prettily illustrated little volume, with life of the poet, descriptions of Stratford localities, sketches of the surrounding country, &a—Harrogate, one of the series of "Popular, Pictorial, and Practical Shilling Guide. Books" (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—Homburg and its Waters. By Dr. Yorke Davies. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—The Art and Pastime of Cycling. By R J. Mecredy and A. J. Wilson. —Whittaker's What to Do and What to Say in Prance," A Hand- wok of Travel-Talk" (J. Murray).—The Tourist's Pocket- Book, "containing useful words and simple phrases in sixteen languages, with medical and surgical hints, and a variety of other information."
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