NEW EDM01213.—The Story of .dhilca. By F. C. Conybeare, T.
Bendel Harris, and Agnes Smith Lewis. (Cambridge University Press. 15s. net.) — The recent discovery at Elephantine, on the Nile, of an Animal° version of the well. known story of Abika, dating from the fifth century before Christ, is the occasion for the issue of a revised edition of this monograph. The story appears among the Arabian Nights, and also in Greek, Slavonic, Armenian, Turkish, Syriac, and .Ethiopic versions, and is, moreover, closely connected with parts of the Biblical Apocrypha. An Aramaic original source for these various versions had been inferred by the authors in their original edition, and the discovery of the Egyptian papyrus on the whole confirms their theories, though the date is shown to be considerably earlier than they hail supposed. The volume is a most fascinating study of a complicated problem.—Nalional Insurance. By A. S. Comyne Carr, W. H. Stuart Garnett, and J. H. Taylor. (Macmillan and Co. 15s, net ).—This fourth edition of a well-known book contains, in addition to the annotated text of the original Act of 1911, the text of the amending Act of 1913, together with copies of the numerous rules end regulations issued on the subject by the Executive.—The Book of Nonsense, to which is added More Nonsense. By Edward Lear. (Frederick Warne and Co. Is. net.)—We are glad to find that Lear's books show no signs of losing their popularity.—Among the first volumes of the new " Bibliotheque Hachette" (Hachette et the., 1 fr. each) are complete editions of MoUre's playa (in five volumes) and of Racine's (in two), while single volumes are devoted to selections from Corneille and from Madame de Sevigne.— Round the Sofa, by Mrs. Gaeta, with an introduction by Mr. Clement Shorter, has just been added to the "World's Classics" (Milford, Is. net).—We have received some new volumes recently added by Messrs. Nelson to their "Edition Lutetia." These are published at the extraordinarily low price of one franc each, and include Montaigne's Essais, Rousseau's Emile, and Madame Is Stael'a Corinne (each in two volumes), as well es volumes containing selections of Madame de Sevigne's letters, of Musset's poetry, and of fairy stories by various writers—A new edition has appeared of Westminster Abbey, by W. S. Laltie (Seeley, Service, and Co., 6s.).
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