NEW EDInGES.—Greek Lays, Idylls, and Legends. Translated by E. M.
Edmonds. With Introduction and Notes. (Trfibner.)—This is a book representative of the poetry of modern Greece, "a selection," as it is described on the title-page, "from recent and contemporary poets." The present edition contains eight supplemental poems, the most interesting among them being the "Elegy on George Gennadius," by George Zalakostas. The poet and the subject were both heroes of the War of Independence.—Mrs. Dymond is the tenth volume of the uniform edition of " Miss Thackeray's Works." (Smith and Elder.)—From the same publishers we have also received a new edition of the Life of Frank Bucklond. By his Brother-in-Law, George C. Bompas.—Sonnets. By Emily Pfeiffer. A revised and enlarged edition. (Field and Tuer.)—Functions of the Brain. By David Ferrier, M.D. Second edition, rewritten and enlarged. (Smith and Elder.)—The Live-Stock of the Farm. By R. 0. Pringle. Edited and revised by James Macdonald, with supplemental matter referring to ensilage and villa dairies. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Dickens's Dictionaries of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (Mac- millan) are republished, with information corrected up to date.
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