NEW EDITIONS. — Wo have to acknowledge the sixth and concluding volume
of the" Library Edition" of Tennyson's Poems. It contains the "Idylls of the King," and finishes with the noble lines," To the Queen" Our readers will not blame us if we quote a part of them :"— " Some are scared, who mark,
Or wisely or unwisely, signs of storm. Waveringa of every vane with every wind, And wordy trucklings to the transient hour, And fierce or careless looseueen of the faith, And softness breeding scorn of simple life, Or Cowardice, the child of lust for gold, Or Labour, with a groan and not a voice, Or Art, with poisonous honey stol'n from France, And that which knows, but careful for itself, Anti that which knows not, rang that which knows
To its own harm; the goal of this great world
Lies beyond sight ; yet—if our slowly-grown And orown'd Republic's crowning common-sense, That saved her many times, not fail—their fears Are Morning shadows longer than the shapes Which east them, not those gloomier which forego The darknose of that battle iu the West, When all of high and holy dies away."
—The fifth volume of Mr. Kinglake's invasionof the Crimea(Blackwooil and Son) takes the reader down to the end of the day of Balaclava.— We hope to notice The Poetical Wm ks of John Milton (Globe Edition), with introduction by David Masson (Macmillan).—In diviniq, we have the "sixth edition" of Questions illustrating the Thirty-nine Articles of' the Church of England, by Edward Bielcorsteth, Dean of Lichfield (Rivingtons); Liber Precum Publicaruna Ecclesire Anylicante, a Gal. Bright at Petro G. Medd, " editio tortia" (Itivingtons); and IVords of Comfort for Parents Bereaved of Little Children, edited by W. Logan (Nisbet). With these we may notice the fifth volume of an excel- lent publication, of which we have more than once spoken with well-deserved commendation, The Expositor, edited by the Rev. Samuel Cox (Hodder and Stoughton). Wo may notice among the contents of this volume the continuation of the editor's articles on the Book of Job, and some essays by Canon Farrar, one eapecially, of ready application to present circumstances, on the "Antagonism of Christ to Externalism in Religion "—In philosophy and science, we have Essays on Political Economy, by Frederic Bastiat, English translation, revised, with Notes, by David A. Wells (Putnam, New York ; Sampson Low and Co., London), one of " Putnam's Popular Manuals," a series which seems to be largely borrowed from English sources ; Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms, by the late Sir G. Cornowall Lewis, a now edition, with notes, by Sir Roland Knight Wilson (Thornton, Oxford) ; The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression, as Connected with the Fine Arts, by Si,- C. Bell (Bell and Sons) ; and the Handbook of Natural Philosophy, by Dionysias Lardnor ; Mechanics, edited and enlarged by B. Lowy, (Charles Lockwood and Co.) With those may be mentioned the Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Liverpool Meeting, 1870, edited by C. W. Ryalls (Longman). —In fiction, we have The Hand of EtheMerta, by Thomas Hardy (Smith and Elder) ; The Sea and the Moor, by Rosa Mackenzie Kettle, the "author's edition" (Weir) ; The Valley of Poppies, by Joseph Hatton (F. Warne and Co.); Katherine's Trial, by Holmo Lee (Smith and Elder); Dot and Dime, Two Characters in Ebony (Rout- ledge); and Helen's Babies, (F. Warne and Co.)—New editions have been issued of Baedeker's Switzerland, and Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy (Leipzig, Baedeker) ; The London Guide, Season 1877 (Stanford); and The Picturesque Tourist, a Handy Guide Round the World (Elzevir Press).
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