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NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—The Whitehall Shakespeare. Edited by H. Arthur

Doubleday, with the assistance of T. Gregory Foster and Robert Elson. Vol. VIII. (Constable and Co.)—The volume contains " Venus and Adonis," " The Rape of Lucrece," the " Sonnets," " Minor Poems," and "King Henry VIII." Each poem, set of plays, and play has its own glossary. — Christopher Marlowe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Edited by Israel Gollancz, M.A. (J. M. Dent and Co.) —The Eucharistic Manuals of John and Charles Wesley, edited, with an Introduction, by Rev. W. E. Dutton (John Hodges) ; and The Eucharistic Hymns of John and Charles Wesley (same editor and publisher), both volumes of the series of " Christian Classics." —The Lives of the Saints. By the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. (John C. Nimmo.)—Vol. 1I. (February) of the enlarged edition.—The Parents' Assistant. By Maria Edgeworth. Illustrated by Chris Hammond. With Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. (Macmillan and Co.)—Carlyle's French Revolution, Vols. I. and II. (J. M. Dent and Co.), in the series of " Temple Classics."— In the same publisher's edition of "Captain Marryat's Novels" we have Valerie and The Little Savage.—Charles O'Malley. By Charles Lever. With Etchings by " Phis." 2 vole. (Downey and Co.)—The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Service and Paton.)—Shirley. By Charlotte BrontE. (Same publishers.)—North and South. By Mrs. Gaskell. (George Newnes and Co.)—Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings. By Lord Lytton. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Laurence Gomme. (Constable and Co.)—Balzac's Lily of the Valley. Translated by James Waring. With a Preface by George Saintsbury. (J. M. Dent and Co.)