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NEw EDITIONS.—The Hittites: the Story of a Forgotten Empire. By

A. H. Sayce, D.D. (R.T.S.)—The Empire of Business. By Andrew Carnegie. (Doubleday, Page, and Co. 3 dole. net.)— We do not know whether there are any additions to thie new issue; but it is certain that some of the contents have acquired a fresh significance. In view of recent pro- posals or suggestions, the chapter on "The Cost of Living in Britain as Compared with the United States" is worth considering. Already the cost of subsistence is greater here, being not quite two-thirds in the States and eight-elevenths in England (II as against 34), or, speaking roughly, out of a weekly income of -el 55., 17s. as against 18s. 6d.—The Theory of Inter- national Trade. By C. F. Bastable, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 38. 6d. net.)—Clocks, Watches, and Bells. By Lord Grimthorpe. (Crosby Lockwood and Co. 4s. 6d.)—This is an eighth edi- tion. We are glad to see it, all the more because the author, in a preface dated February, 1893, thought that it was not unlikely that it would be the last time of his revising the book, "considering,". he says, "my age and the number of copies printed in each edition" (three thousand). Now he gives some additions, an enlargement of the list of bells, and an appendix oia "Weathercocks,"—In the "Carillon" Series (Bell and Sons, Is. 6d. net), Lycidas , and other Odes, by John Milton, illustrated by R. A_nning Bell.—In the "Temple Classics" (J. M. Dent and Co.), Familiar Leiters, by James Howell, 3 vols. (4s. 6d. net) ; also Pippa Passes, and other Dramatic Poems, by Robert Browning (1s. 6d. net).—The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (George Newnes, 3s. 6d.), in the series of " Newnes's Thin-Paper Classics." —In the "Authorised Edition of the Works of W. M. Thackeray " (J. M. Dent and Co.) Denis Duval, Lovel the Widower, he. (3s. net). —The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. (John Lane. le. 6d. and 2s.)-—Fly Leaves. By Charles Stuart Calverley. (Bell and Sons. is, net.)—Robinson Cruses. (Burns and Oates.

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