New EDITIONS.—We have received the first volume of Phillips's Manual
of Geology, Theoretical and Practical. Edited by Robert Etheridge and Harry Govier Seeley. (C. Griffin and Co.)—This first volume appears under the special care of Professor Seeley, and deals with the subject of "Physical Geology and Palreontology." The editor tells us that "every page of the original work which was in any way valuable has been preserved " ; but that, as, indeed, might have been expected, a great deal of addition and change has been found necessary. The editors' reputation is a guarantee for the accuracy and completeness with which the work of bringing up the manual to the present state of knowledge has been done.—We have also received an "enlarged and revised edition" of Field Sports of the North of Europe. By Captain L. Lloyd. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; and T. D. Morison, Glasgow.)—Captain Lloyd was a well-known writer on sport in Sweden and Norway (for it is to these countries that this book refers), and this work has been supplemented from others that he wrote on the same subject.—Miss Charlotte M. Yonge reprints, in a revised form, after an interval of more than twenty years, her History of Christian Names (Macmillan and Co.)— By "Christian names" she means "first names," as it comes within her plan to treat of Latin pramornina, and even of nomina gentilia. This, however, she does only as far as the names have representatives in modern life. The treatment of this part of the subject is not, however, quite clear.—We have received the second yearly issue of the Official Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. (C. Griffin and Co.)—This volume contains, as it is intended that future volumes should contain, a list of the papers read before the societies during the course of last year. The locality, officers, &c., of the Societies are also given.—We may include in this notice, though the work is not a new edition, the third volume of the Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature, by the late Samuel Halkett and the late Rev. John Laing, M.A. (W. Pater- son, Edinburgh.)—Among the republications of the Swedenborg Society we have Divine Love and Wisdom, translated from the Latin of Emmanuel Swedenborg.
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