MISCELLANEOUB.—The Bride's Mirror of Maulavt Nazis-Ahmed. Edited by G. E.
Ward. (H. Frowde. 10s. 6d. net.) — This is a sort of didactic tale, written in Hindostanee for the benefit of the author's daughter, and now published, trans- literated into Roman characters, for ladies who may desire to make themselves acquainted with the language. The editor has supplied a vocabulary and notes. It is the first original book, we are told, that has appeared in Hindostanee.— Sir Redvers H. Buller. By Walter Jerrold. (S. W. Partridge and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is one of the books of which the war is certain to produce a large erop. We have always said what we could against biographies of the living, and we do not feel dis- posed to except the case of a general at the front.—Another book of a similar class, to which, however, the same objection does not apply, is The "Death or Glory Boys " ; or, The Story of the Seventeenth Lancers, by D. H. Parry (Cassell and Co., 6s.) It tells the tale of the services of the regiment from the time when it was raised in 1759 by John Hall down to its service in South Africa in 1880.—Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of American History. Edited by NV. Macdonald. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is a companion volume to one issued some little time ago under the title of "Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States." It goes back to the pre- Revolutionary period, and gives charters and grants, acts, &c., belonging to the early days of the various States. As we draw near the end of the selection the coming event casts its shadow before it, the last document being the "Act prohibiting trade and intercourse with America." This time at least the Lords, where there was a strong opposition to the Bill, were wiser than the Com- mons, where the minority on the third reading was only sixteen. —Vanity Fair, Series XXXI. (Vanity Fair Office. 42s.)—This is a particularly interesting volume. The frontispiece is a picture of the "Rennes Trial," with the " Generals " and their" victims," shall we call them ? Hard on this follows a ." Pretender," namely, Prince Victor Napoleon (only a very curious-looking being, "The Emperor of Cores," intervening). Of other studies we may mention "Lord Kitchener of Khartoum," "M. Delcasse," "The President of the United States," and "The American Ambassador." The list has more notabilities in it than usual.— The Journal of Education, Vol. XXI. (W. Rice, 7s. 6d.), is wel- come as always. It is a history as well as a chronicle; nowhere may we look for a more intelligent appreciation of what is being done or written in the province of education.—The School World (Macmillan and Co., 7s. 6d. net), which appears for the first time in an annual volume, has for an object among other things to afford something like "an open council" for persons actually engaged in secondary teaching. — Fox-Hunting : a Treatise by the Right Hon. the Earl of Kilreynard, compiled and illustrated by C. W. Bell (H. Cox), will give genuine amusement both by its letterpress and its pictures. "Mr. Jorrocks " is the Aristophanes of fox-hunting, and we are some- times reminded of him here.—Mr. T. Scott Anderson in his Holloas from. the Hills (Smail, Jedburgh) is quite serious. He expresses his enthusiasm in fairly good verse.—We have to mention the appearance of the eighth volume of A System of Medicine, edited by Thomas Clifford Allbutt, M.D. (Mac- millan and Co., 25s. net). It contains "Diseases of the Nervous System" (continued), "Mental Diseases," and "Diseases of the Skin," with an appendix on "Malarial Fever" with an account of recent discoveries of the malarial paraiite. and its existence "outside its human host."—Two editions of (Surres Compldtes de Maiere are published by the Oxford University Press. One of them is in a single volume (5s. ; on Iudia paper, 9s.) This has all the clearness of type and excellence of paper that we expect in volumes coining from this source. Its pages number close upon six hundred and fifty, and it is of quite manageable size, but it is as legible as any one can desire. The other edition has the same advantages in a very different form, consisting of five miniature volumes in a case.
How to Learn Philology. By Eustace H. Miles, M.A. (Swan Sonnensehein and Co. 58. net.)—This is described by tha author as a. " Simple and Introductory Book for Teachers and Learners." Mr. Miles begins at the beginning—most books on the subject begin much too far on—and gives plenty of really helpful sug- gestions and hints. A. diligent reader with but slender equipment of Latin and Greek may take up the volume, learn much from it, and find his original stock very much increased at the end. Greek dialects, the sources of Latin, the changes of the Romance languages, Grimm's Law, are among the many subjects of which Mr. Miles treats.—The Young Scholar's illustrated Bible (Eyre and Spottiswoode) is furnished with what may be called real as distinguished from fancy illustrations. The Rosetta Stone serves as a. frontispiece. Egyptian, Babylonian, Hittite, l'hcenician, and Assyrian remains furnish others. There are also reproductions of landscapes, views (as of the Roman Forum, &c.), and maps.
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