9 JANUARY 1897, Page 27

Boons RECEIVED.—In the series of "The Modern Reader's Bible," edited

by Richard G. Moulton, MA. (Macmillan and Co.), Genesis, The Exodus, Judges, Ruth, Esther, and Tobit.—Fanelcrn on Pulpit Eloquence. With Introductory Essay by the late S. J. Eales, M.A. (T. Baker.)—Socialism and Catholicism. Trans- lated from the Italian of Count Edward Soderini by Richard Jenery-Shee. (Longmans and Co.)—Leibnitz's New Essays Concerning Human Understanding. Translated by Alfred Gideon Langley. (Macmillan and Co.)—The Perfect Whole : an Essay on the Conduct and Meaning of Life. By Horatio W. Dresser. (Gay and Bird.)—The Power of Silence. Same author and pub- fishers.— The Doctrines of Thomas Carlyle. (Chapman and Hall.) —" Selected and Arranged Passages from his Works."—An abridgment, edited and translated into modern French, of sundry chroniclers from Sugar to Froissart, by Madame Guizot, is pub- lished under the title of St. Louis et les Croisades, les Premiers Valois (Hachette).—From the same publishers, Thodtre Choisi de Corneille, par L. Petit de Julleville ; Theatre Choisi de Racine, par G. Lawson ; Theatre Choisi de Moliire, par Ernest Thirion ; Diderot, Extraits, avec Introduction, dac., par Joseph Texts.— Curiosities of the Key-board and the Staff. By Alfred Rhodes (Augener and Co.)—Practical Electricity. By W. E. Ayton, F.R.S. Vol. I.: "Current, Pressure, Resistance, Energy, Power, and Cells." (Cassell and Co.)—The Metric System. By W. H. Wagstaff. (Whittaker and Co.)—The X Ray : its Value in Surgery. By W. J. Morton, M.D., in collaboration with Edwin W. Hammer. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—Auto-Cars. By D. Farman. Translated from the French by Lucien Servaillier. (Whittaker and Co.)—A Bibliography of Guns and Shooting. By Wirt Gerrare. (Roxburghe Press.)—Worms, Rotifers, and Poly:1)a- " Flatworms and Polyzoa," by F. W. Gamble, M.A.; "Nemertines," by Miss L. Sheldon ; " Threadworms and Sagitta," by A. E. Shipley; "Rotifers," by Marcus Hartog ; " Polyzoa," by S. F. Harmer. (Macmillan and Co.) — Raman Fever : Results of cm inquiry into the Malarial Fevers of the Roman Campagna. By W. North, M.A. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—A Text- book on Nursing. With Introduction by Sir Dyee Duckworth, M.D. (E. Arnold.)