NEW EDITIONS. —Life of Lord Wolseley. By Charles Rathbone Low, I.N.
(R. Bentley and Son.)—This is the second and enlarged edition of a book first published in 1878. Mr. Lowe has now added to it an account of Sir Garnet Wolseley's administration in Cyprus, his doings, military and political, in South Africa, when he went out to succeed Lord Chelmsford, and finally, his campaign in Egypt. Mr. Low, as those who know his books are aware, does well all the work that he takes in hand ; in this case, he seems to have had the advantage of unusual acquaintance with the subject of his memoir. His narrative derives fresh interest throughout from personal reminiscences with which he has thus been able to illustrate it. Fresh interest has naturally been given to a volume which we had the pleasure of welcoming at the time of its first appearance.—Boy-life ; Sundays in Wellington College, 1859-1873. By E. W. Benson. (Macmillan and Co.)—There are forty-seven sermons in all, divided into three books. We cannot do better than hope that the Archbishop's
utterances may be as appropriate and effective as were those of the Head Master.—We have received the second part of Vol. II. of an excellent publication, of which we have already spoken with well- deserved commendation, The Encyclopcedic Dictionary. (Cassell and Co.)—The speciality of this work, we may remind our readers, it to
give not only the meaning and usage of a word, but when it stands for an art, a science, an object in nature or art, to give a brief descrip. tion, illustrated, when occasion demands, by an engraving. The part before us takes in from " Conation " to " Destructionist."
A second edition of T. Hancock's sermons, Christ and the People. (Hodges.)—The fifth edition of Handbook to the Masterly Series, by Thomas Prendergast. (Longman.)
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