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ings suggested by the Armenian and Ethiopia versions, and those gleaned from the occasional quotations occurring in Chrysostom and Theodoret. Special weight is assigned to the old Latin version. The labour involved in such an undertaking must have been enormous, and the editors have laid all scholars under deep obligation by the thoroughness and accuracy with which they have carried out what many would consider to be an irksome task.

Their work modestly aspires only to be regarded as a trustworthy collection of textual material, and not a definitive edition ; but it will certainly go a long way towards supplying that desirable result. The second part, it is announced, will contain Exodus and Leviticus ; and the Octateuch will be completed in four parts, forming the first volume. The book is printed in a manner worthy of the University Press.

Documents illustrating Elizabethan Poetry. Edited

by Laurie Magnus, M.A. (Routledge & Sons.) To "The English Library "have been added in a convenient shape Sir Philip Sidney's ' Apologie ' and the treatises of George Puttenham and William Webbe. They are accompanied by valuable intro- ductions and notes, and supply in a very handy shape some valuable early criticism until modern and favoured days all but inaccessible.

The People's Prayers. By E. G. C. F. Atchley.

(Longmans & Co.)

IN this * Alcuin Club Tract ' the author traces the Litany of the Book of Common Prayer, as well as the mediaeval English Litany, to the responsorial type of service used in the first centuries of Christianity, when priest and people answered each the other in brief orisons. He refers to the early use of Kyrie Eleison, " Lord, have mercy upon us," as a response, but he does not mention that it was borrowed from the Pagans.

French Abbreviations, Commercial, financial, and General. By Edward Latham. (Effingham Wilson.)

THIS is another useful compilation by Mr. Latham, whose name in connexion with works of reference and the materials of which they are composed is pleasantly conspicuous in our columns. A preface supplies much curious information not generally possessed, including the legal aspects of the question, for such in France have an existence.

Famous Sayings and their Authors. By Edward Latham. Second Edition. (Sonnenschein&Co.) IN accordance with the suggestions of critics, a subject index has been added to the second edition of this useful and attractive volume of Sonnen- schein's " Dictionaries of Quotations." This, which occupies nearly one hundred pages, forms a very helpful and valuable feature.

To "The Universal Library" of Messrs. Rout- ledge & Sons have been made some important additions. Two of these consist of the Lavengro and The Zincali of George Borrow, which, with 'The Romany Rye' and 'The Bible in Spain,' constitute the most readable and fascinating works of the series. A third is vol. ii. of Landor's Imaginary Dialogues, and contains the ' Dialogues of Sovereigns and Statesmen ' ; a fourth is Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas and other papers;

while a fifth is Sir Edward Creasy's The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon t o Waterloo, a work in its day of great celebrity, and still capable of administering much edification and delight.

Two volumes of Matthew Arnold's poetry are added to the greatly enlarged " Muses Library," One of these contains the Drama and Prize Poems, comprising ' Merope ' and ' Empedocles on Etna.' The second includes the poems The Forsaken Merman, The Scholar Gipsy, &c., but not ' Thyrsis,' which we suppose is still copyright. These are edited by Mr. Laurie Magnus, who supplies excel- lent introductions. After perusing afresh 'The Forsaken Merman ' we cannot agree with the criticism that Arnold had a river, not a sea mind " potamic," not " thalassic."

VERDI'S II Trovatore and JRigoletto, both by Francis Burgess, constitute Nos. x. and xi. of the ' Nights at the Opera,' issued from the De La More Press.

THE forthcoming portion of the 'Oxford Dic- tionary' is a double section, and takes vol. vii., O P, as far as "piper." This section contains 4,716 words and 13,759 illustrative quotations. Science and philosophy are conspicuous. Dr. Murray notes that the group of photo-words is with difficulty compressed into fifteen columns, and includes no fewer than 240, all except three being of the nineteenth century, and all except six consequent upon the introduction of photography in 1839. Among articles of special interest are those on picnic, Pilgrim Fathers, pimpernel, and pin-pricks.

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