NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINT8.—Bolvinson Crusoe. With Illus- trations by Walter
Paget. (Cassell and Co.)—Of the many editions of the "Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe " which have been published since the first ap- pearance of the great romance (in 1719-20), few can be compared to this. The illustrations, a hundred and twenty in number, are excellent. They have been carefully studied, and have just the right touch of realism about them,—as when, for instance, the neat figure of the solitary on p. 69 (when his clothes are not yet worn out) is compared with the skin-clad personage of p. 171. The savages are very well drawn ; so are the birds and beasts. —The Vision of Sir Launfal. By James Russell Lowell. (Gay and Bird.)—This poem, first published nearly fifty years ago, appears with some graceful illustrations by E. H. Garrett. The face of the old man on p. 35 seems to us as good as any. But nothing is so interesting as the portrait of the poet, from a crayon-drawing executed in 1842, a very poetical head indeed. —From the same publishers we have The One-Hess Shay, and Companion Poems, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, with Illus- trations by Howard Pyle. The two other poems are "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," and "The Broomstick Train," both characteristic of the writer's peculiar genius. All are most appropriately illustrated.—The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson, has reached its "seventeenth thousand ; " The Splendid Spur, by "Q.," its "seventh." Both are illustrated by Mr. H. M. Paget.—The Girls' Home Companion. Edited by Mrs. Valentine. (F. Warne and Co.)—This useful work, "a book of pastimes in work and play," appears in a "new edition thoroughly revised to date."—The Pilgrim's Progress. By John Bunyan. (Religious Tract Society.)—Popular Tales, by Maria Edgeworth (Routledge and Sons) ; and, by the same author and from the same publishers, Moral Tales.—The Riviera, by the Rev. Hugh Macmillan, a "new and revised edition," handsomely illustrated. (J. S. Virtue and Co.)— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. By Jules Verne. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—The Fairy-Book. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." (Macmillan.)—Andersen's Fairy- Tales. Translated from the Danish by Caroline Peachey, with Illus- trations by B. Pedersen and E. H. Wehnert. (Bell and Sons.) —Alypius : a Tale of the Early Church, by Mrs. Webb (Religious Tract Society) ; Christ and the Heroes of Heathendom, by the Rev. James Wells (same publishers) ; and, also from the same, Ben Haden; or, Do Right, Whatever Comes of It.—Birds and Flowers. By Mary Howitt. (Virtue and Co.)—Four-Winds Farm. By Mrs. Molesworth. (Macmillan.) —We may call the special attention of our readers to a new and cheaper edition of a most delightful book, Mary Howitt : an Autobiography, edited by her daughter, Margaret Hewitt. (Isbister and Co.)
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