17 MAY 1879, page 24

Samuel Wilberforce. Faith: Service: Recompense. Three...

M.A. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—The first of these sermons (which surely are of excessive length, averaging seventy - six pages each) deals with the character of Bishop......

Imperial India : An. Artist's Journals. By Val. C. Prinsep.

(Chapman and Hall.)—The chief characteristic of this book must be known by this time to most readers, through the good-humoured burlesque with which Punch weekly entertains us.......

The Hand - Book Of Bible Words. By H. F. Woolrych, M.a.

(Eliot Stock.)—This is really a handy book, and yet appears to be by no means a superficial one. It is intended, as explained in the com- mendatory introduction by Canon......

Our New Protectorate. By J. C. Mccoan. 2 Vols. (chapman

and Hall.)—Our new Protectorate is, of course, Turkey in Asia, which Mr. McCoan describes with a great deal of personal know- ledge. The writer has, however, fallen under the......

Up The River, From Westminster To Oxford. With 140...

and a Map. (Waterlow and Sons.)—This is a good guide-book, though it might well have been put into a more convenient form. The account of scenery and localities is good, and......

Songs And Lyrics For Little Lips. (w. Wells Gardner ;

and Metzler and Co.)—It is hard to find fault with such a beautiful-looking book, and one, too, which contains so many old favourites, and a few good new ones ; but there is......