Facts and Fancies in Prose and Verse. By Jenny Wren.
(Hall, Smart, and Allen.)—This lady was fortunate enough to marry a printer, from whose honeymoon fondness she obtained the publication of this book. As she promises not to do it again, "unless her sweet twin daughters, newly born, should prove an irresistible inspiration," we will say no more about it. But we really hope that Mr. Wren, having now got well past the honeymoon, will do his duty, and see that the twins are not neglected for literature at all events.
We have also received the following reprints of standard works :— The Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope; Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford; and Domestic Stories, by the Author of John Halifax, being one-half of the volumes known as Avillion and Other Tales. Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. have reprinted these three works in handsome single volumes, illustrated, and neatly bound in red cloth. Also we have received Southey's Life of Wesley, and the first volume of Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Englanc4 which form part respectively of Bohn's Standard and Historical Libraries (Bell and Daldy) ; the third volume of Tytler's History of Scotland (W. P. Nimmo), which commences with the accession of Mary and takes us down to 1573, in the Regency of Morton ; the seventh edition of Festus, by Philip James Bailey (Bell and Daldy), a very handsome copy ; a new edition in one volume of Hawthorne's book on England, Our Old Home (Smith, Elder, and Co.), with a very characteristic photograph of the author ; a new edition of The Recreations of Christopher North (W. Blackwood and Sons), in two volumes, with a portrait ; a "cheap edition" of Wnan's Life of Jesus (Trubner and Co.), translated by an anonymous hand ; A Day's Ride, by Charles Lever (Chapman and Hall), being the latest addition to the Select Library of Fiction ; the second volume of The Theological Works of the Rev. John Howard Hinton, M.A. (Houlston and Wright), containing "Systematic and Expository Divinity ;" Miss Cobbe's Religious Duty (Trubner and Co.); a fourth edition of Why Paul Ferrol Killed His Wife (Saunders, Otley, and Co.); a fifth edition of Arch- deacon Pratt's Scripture and Science not at Variance (Hatchard and (io.), in which the author has noticed the objections raised by Mr. Goodwin in his "Essay on the Mosaic Cosmogony," by Dr. Colenso, and by Sir Charles Lyell ; The Pilgrim's Progress, or rather, we imagine, an abridg- ment of it (Thomas Murby), being the latest addition to Laurie's Shilling Entertaining Library ; Goldsmith's Traveller (Longman and Co.), carefully annotated for the use of schools, and with a life of the poet, by Walter M'Leod, F.R.G.S., M.C.P. ; and the Farmer's Almanack and Calendar for 1865 (William Ridgway), by Cuthbert W. Johnson, F.R.S., and W. Shaw, a little book brimful of useful agricultural hints and memoranda, as well as a good almanack.
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