NEW EDMONS.—The Rev. Samuel Garratt republishes, after an interval of
twelve years, his Commentary on the Revelation of St. John. (William Hunt.) Mr. Garrett stands between tho prasterist and tho futurist interpreters. Much, he thinks, has boon fulfilled; much remains to come. A sentence from his preface will explain the character of his interpretation :—" Every true interpreter is likely to differ from his predecessors just in those matters which affect the hopes and fears and duties of the immediate future. It is here that I believe myself enabled to see what was not in the horizon of those who preceded me ; an (Ecumenical Council of the East and West, a reunion of Christendom in Apostasy, the persecution of the faithful previous to Christ's coming by a false but attractive Catholicity, to which movement Protestantism will auccumb, and the revival of the Roman Empire in the East as well as in the West." It seems that there is to be an (Ecumenical Council at Jerusalem, that the Protestant Churches will send representatives to It; that these will be overborne, and that for a time Protestantism will be extinct, but that it will revive after throe years and a half. This is tho vision of the "two witnesses." It is clear that the interpreter does not look with much favour on the Society for Pro- moting the Reunion of Christendom.—We have also a " third edition" of Hermann Agha, an Eastern Narrative, by W. Gifford Palgravo (0. K. Paul & Co.), a story full, as Mr. Palgravo almost alone among English writers knows how to fill it, of genuine Eastern colour and sentiment. —The Poetical Works of Thomas Cooper. (Hodder and Stoughton.) Mr. Cooper's chief poem, "The Purgatory of Suicides," has gained a distinct place in the literature of this century. In republishing it, he had to deal with this difficulty,—that his sentiments on many things have changed since the time of its first publication. "With little alteration," ho writes in his preface, " ' Tho Purgatory of Suicides 'must remain as part of a mind-history which, though faulty, will not, I trust, be without healthful value to some, especially if they regard that history's sequel." And Mr. Cooper goes on to remind his readers that the latter portion of his life has been devoted to setting forward the evidences of the truth of which he was once sceptical. "The Purgatory of Suicides" is worthy of the attention of readers to whom it is now probably known by name only.—A fifth edition of the Poetical Works of Thomas Aird. Edited, with a Memoir, by the Rev. J. Wallace, RA. (Blackwood.)—A new illustrated edition, in one volume, of Mr. Blackmore's Erenta (Smith, Elder).—We may mention also the English Manual of Banking, by Arthur Crump (Longmans), which appears in a "third edition, revised and enlarged ;" and the Manual of Modern Geography, Mathematical, Physical, and Political, "seventh thousand, revised to the day of publication." (Blackwood and Sons.)
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