Ngcv EDITIONS.-The Preacher's Dictionary, by the Rev. C. F. Cavalier
(Hodder and Stoughton, 6s.), described by the sub-title as "A Biblical Conspectus and Compendium of Religious and Secular Thought, past and present, topically arranged," and intended primarily "to supply a synopsis of subjects for sermon pro- duction." It will be found generally useful to the student. -Lives of the Engineers. By Samuel Smiles. (John Murray. 3s. 6d.)-The " Engineers " whose biographies are here given are Vermuyden, Sir Hugh Myddelton, Perry (whose great work was the protection of the north bank of the Thames at Dagenham), and James Brindley, the "Prime Minister" of the Duke of Bridgewater in the execution of his great scheme of inland navigation. The first of the four was scandalously ill-treated by the nation. Instead of receiving anything, he spent all his private means on the undertaking. Myddel- ton, though commonly supposed to have died in poverty, prospered fairly well. So did Perry, though Peter the Great employed him, but never paid him a farthing. Brindley, who died at a comparatively early age (fifty-one), was, as times then went, a rich man.-Michael Angelo's Sonnets. Translated by John Addington Symonds. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)-Fairy Tales. By George MacDonald. Edited by Greville MacDonald. With Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. (A. C. Fifield. 4s. 6d. net.)-The illustrator wishes that the public should remember that his drawings date from forty years ago, and that they were intended to be reproduced by a method that has now become obsolete,-wood engraving. To us they seem to need no apology, but to be curiously appropriate to the text. -Some of Miss Louisa M. Alcott's stories are published in a uniform edition of four volumes (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.),-Little Women and Little Women Wedded (1); Jack and Jill (2) ; An Old-Fashioned Girl (3) ; and Rose in Bloom (4).
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