7 AUGUST 1880, Page 26

We have to notice a new edition of Selections from

the Kur-cin, by Edward and William Lane. (Triihner.)—To this well-known book Mr. Stanley Lane Poole has added an excellent introduction, in which he discusses " the Arabs before Mohammed," the life and character of the Prophet himself, the nature of the religions and social system which he founded, and tho Kur-tin itself. He has besides revised mendetton of a Treasury Commission; and the Government have paid the Mr. Lane's work throughout. loventor (Mr. Fellows) £500, for the privilege of using it throughout all their