NEW- EnrrzoNs.—Among these, we may mention Jane Eyre, by Charlotte
Brontë (Smith, Elder, and Co.); the first volume of an edition, to be completed in seven volumes, of "The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters." The edition is to be illustrated with views of the places described in the novels of the three sisters, these places being for the most part actual localities. The illustrations to Jane Eyre are "Lowood," the famous Cowan Bridge of reality, and four others less known to fame.—On Sound, by Professor Tyndall (Longmans), and from the same author and publisher, Six Lectures on Light, delivered in America in 1872-1873; Our Mother Church, by Mrs. Jerome C. Mercier (Rivingtons); Yesterday, To-Day, and For Ever, by Edward Henry Bickersteth (Rivingtons), a poem which has attained the quite uncom- mon and notable success of a "tenth" edition.—History of Ireland,from the Earliest Period to the Year 1875. (Tegg.) The first chapter, we learn from the title-page, has been rewritten. The newest research, then, into early Irish history, teaches us that Heremon was King of all Ireland rather more than 1,200 years before Christ, and that he was succeeded by 169 monarchs who held the same dignity, the last of whom was Roderick, from whom. Irish patriots should never forget, QueenVictoria is descended.—Signs Before Death (Tegg) we may re- commend as a cheerful volume for a solitary evening.—We have also to mention a "second edition, revised," of The Princes of India, by Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart. (Stanford.)—Messrs. Sonnenschein and Stally- brass's Eh st Reading-Book (Williams and Norgate) has reached a third edition.
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