NEw EDITIONS. — History of English Literature and Thought in the Eighteenth
Century. By Sir Leslie Stephen. 2 vols. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 28s.)—It is twenty-six years since this book was first published, and its author confesses to some change of opinion and not a little change of temper in the interval. But he cannot undertake to rewrite it, and we are glad, on the whole, to have it as it was.—..4 Child's History of England. By Charles Dickens. (J. M. Dent and Co. 58. net.)—The Discovery of Australia. By Albert F. Calvert. (Dean and Son.)—In the "York Library" (R. Brimley Johnson, 2s. 6d. net each) we have Two Love Stories, by R. Southey (extracted from the " Doctor ") ; and Rosamund Gray, by Charles Lamb. We cannot but think that the publication of the latter is a grave mistake in the matter of taste. Does the publisher suppose that fathers and mothers are going to put this book into the hands of their children ? We would warn theni, in case they do not know what it Tntains, that they should do nothing of the kind.—Tom Andrews, by Arthur Chandler, Bishop of Bloemfontein (Elliot Stock, 2s. 6d.net), which we remember as a specially good example of the gift-book, appears, we are glad to see, in a cheap edition.—The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This volume, which contains all Tennyson's works clearly printed on India paper in limp leather binding, is under an inch in thickness, and makes a very handsome and handy gift-book.
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