NEW EDITIONS.—Life and Times of Niecolo Machiavelli. By Pro- fessor
Pasquale Villari. Translated by Madame Linda Villari. 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwire.)—This is a more complete edition of a work which first appeared in 1878-83. The author explains that in the first edition seine important matter was suppressed, various illustrative documents, for instance, a chapter on Renaissance art, and another on the criticisms that have been made at various times on Machiavelli's work. This new edition also contains some recently discovered letters written by Machiavelli when he was in office. Both volumes are handsomely illustrated, the portraits being especially interesting.—Art and Song. Edited by Robert Bell. (Virtue and Co.)—This is a new edition of a handsome volume of poetical extracts, illustrated by engravings on steel from great artists. The illustrations are thirty in number, and include the names of Turner, Stothard, Martin, and Roberts, as rendered by Messrs. Cousen, Lumb Stock, Gondall, and others.—Public Libraries. By Thomas Greenwood. (Cassell and Co.)—Poems of Shelley, selected and arranged by Stopford A. Brooke (Macmillan and Co.), a volume of " The Golden Treasury Series."—Funda- mental Problems. By Dr. Paul Carus. (Open Court Publishing Com- pany, Chicago, U.S.A.)—In " The Camelot Series" (W. Scott), Thoreau's Essays, with a Prefatory Note by W. H. Direks.
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