NEW EDIT ioNs.—We are glad to see a third edition
of Letters from a Mystic of the Present Day, by Rowland W. Corbet, M.A. (Elliot Stock). We may quote a passage from the preface to the second edition :—" The true meaning of our Lord's intercession would be best secured by the rendering, He ever liveth to succour us.' Then the intercession would be seen to be, that He, on the part of God, is ever ministering to us, rescuing us from the bonds of sin, and bringing us by the power of His love and wisdom into the bosom of His Father and our Father."—With this volume we may mention The Calls of God : Devotional Studies, by the Rev. Ebenezer Morgan (Charles H. Kelly, 3s. 6d.)—The Works of Henry Fielding. (A. Constable and Co. 7s. 6d. net.) —Vol. XI. (or Vol. I. of the " Miscellanies ") contains " Tom Thumb," in which the dramatic poetry of the time is parodied ; as no one now reads the originals, the satire falls a little flat. " An Apology for the Clergy" is not a very happy specimen of irony. In "An Essay on Conversation," on the other hand, he appears to the best advantage. "An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men " is not particularly easy reading, but " A Journey from this World to the Next" is entertaining throughout.—In the "Temple Classics" (J. M. Dent and Co., is. 6d.), we have Poems : Narrative, Elegiac, and Visionary, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and The Confes- sions of an English Opium-Eater, by Thomas De Quincey.—Black, but Comely. By J. G. Whyte-Melville. (Ward, Lock, and Co.) —The Honour of Savelli. By S. Levett Yeats. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 6d.)
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