Nuw EDITIONS.—We have the second volume of a now edition
of the Works of Robert Burns (William Paterson.) The speciality of this edition, which has been already noticed in these columns, is to give in an absolutely,complete form all that Burns wrote, supplying omissions which for various reasons have been made in former collections. There are six or seven such pieces in the volume before us (which contains the verses written set. 28-33), none of them of much importance, unless we are to except a first version of the "Banks of Dean." The various pieces are accompanied by interesting biographical notices.—We have also to mention a new edition, "revised by the author," of Sacred Streams, the Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible, by Philip H. Geese, F.R.S., with forty-four engravings and a map (Hodder and Stoughton) ; of The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, by Thomas Knightley, edited by Leonhard Schmitz, LL,D. (Bell and Sons); and of The Superhuman Origin of the Bible, The Congregational Union Lecture for 1873, by Henry Rogers (Hodder and Stoughton).—Elementary Treatise on Physics, translated and edited from Ganot's "Elements de Physique," by E. Atkinson, Ph.D. (Longmane.) This is an eighth edition,- and contains now matter, with numerous additional illustrations. — -We may congratulate a writer who enjoys a well-deserved popularity on'the compliment implied in such a title as the following,—Selections from the Writings of the Author of fl'he Schonzberg-Cotta Family, by 4' a Friend " (Daldy, Isbister, and Co.) The authors who have become such favourites with the public that it is worth while to make selections from their works are but few in number. It is full early, perhaps, in this -case to bestow the honour, but that there are at least good claims to it any one who will look through this volume will soon perceive.
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