NEW EDITIONS AND REPEINTS.—Christmas-Day, and other Sermons. By Frederick Denison
Maurice. (Macmillan.) A second edition, published after the lapse of nearly fifty years. The book has been long prized by those who were happy enough to possess it, and will now, we hope, do its work in instructing a larger circle. How curious it is to find in the preface the title explained as not in- tended "to impart to the reader a festal tone of feeling, which certainly is not characteristic of the preacher " ! —Dissertations on the Apostolic Age, by the late J. B. Lightfoot, D.D. (same pub- lisher); a volume of essays reprinted from the late Bishop's edition of the Epistles.—Early Church History, by Edward Backhouse. Edited by Charles Tyler. (Simpkin and Marshall). —Modern Science in Bible-lands, by Sir J. William Dawson.— Casseir s English Dictionary. Edited by John Williams, M.A. (Cassell and Co.)— Sermons and Addresses Delivered in America, by Frederic W. Farrar, D.D. (Macmillan.)—A Dictionary of the Terms used in Medicine, by the late Richard Hoblyn, M.A., edited by John A. P. Price, B.A.—Coins and Medals. By the author of " The British Museum Official Catalogue." Edited by Stanley Lane-Poole.--Ths Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Edited, after the original edition, by J. W. Clark, M.A., for the " Golden Treasury Series."—Stray Studies in England and Italy. By John Richard Green. (Macmillan.)—Legal Maxims, with Observations and Cases. By George Frederick Wharton. (Law Times Office.)—The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. (F. Warne and Co.) —Class-Book of Modern Geography. By W. Hughes. Revised and extended by J. Francon Williams. (George Philip and Son.)— O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal. Edited by John Lowers. (A. and C. Black.)—Dotnbey and Son. By Charles :Dickens.
(Same publishers.) This is one of the series for which Mr. Charles Dickens, the younger, is writing introductions. That now before us is not less interesting than its predecessors. He gives us another glimpse of how Dickens overworked himself. This time he had a Christmas book, "The Battle of Life," and "Dombey and Son " on hand together. The conditions of pub- lishing are ominously changed since that time (1846). The " Christmas Book " was not finished till the end of October. The publishers now want these things some four months earlier. We see, also, that Dickens was not a rapid writer. Four months were wanted for the composition of the smaller book, which hardly contains twenty thousand words (to use the common way of estimating). The sale of the first number of " Dombey and Son " was thirty-two thousand, and the profits more than £9,000 on the whole. One of the pirate class of publishers sent out a "Dombey and Daughter," written by the then notorious "Judge Nicholas," of the Cider Cellars
The Three Fates. By F. Marion Crawford. (Same publishers.) —Jacks Courtship. By W. Clark Russell. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Black Blood. By George Manville Fenn. (Ward and Downey.)
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