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pulse stirred in answer to the blast of reformation Had ecclesiastical and royal persecution there bee less thorough, Spain would seemingly have give us a reformation all other than that devised b Luther or Calvin. A quite charming essay is tha on Theophile de Viau, with its well -execute translations. These also are given in a second o Henri Miirger, the poet of the ' Vie de Boheme 'Alfred de Musset' is an attractive and an out spoken paper. 'Froissart's Love Story' exhibit the great chronicler in an unfamiliar aspect, whil The Story of a Fair Circassian ' is the life of th famous Mile. Ai'sse, whose delightful letters Vol taire did not scorn to annotate. The last thre pieces, written twenty or more years later, dea with questions of international copyright. The- constitute a curious record of abortive effort i. that direction before the middle of last century Sir Walter compares the first Society of Britisl Authors with the "Societe des [de] Gens d Lettres ' in France. There were, however, SOU fifty societies so styled. This posthumous work deserves and will obtain a warm reception. It i to be hoped that there are others to follow.

A Genealogical History of the Family of Adams o Caran, d-c. By the late Rev. B. W. Adams, D.D Edited by M. R. W. P. Adams, Barrister-at-Law (Mitchell & Hughes.)

THIS carefully compiled account of the family 01 Adams, originally Adam, is reprinted from the Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. First heard of in Scotland in the time of Alexander II. (1214-49) the family took a prominent part in Scottish his- tory, was associated with some memorable deeds married with the houses of Douglas, Leslie, O'Neill' Magenms, &c., and maintained its position amon^ the untitled country gentry.

Little Dorrit ; Great Expectations; Bleak Home. By Charles Dickens. (Frowde and Chapman & Hall. )

THESE three volumes constitute the latest additions to the "Fireside Dickens," one of the pleasantest editions in which the works of the wizard can be read. We speak with knowledge, since, with sight no longer good, we have read through several of the reprinted volumes and found the task easy and a f.<;^ble The type is all that can be sought, Little Dorrit and 'Bleak House' have each of then, forty illustrations by Phiz, while the remain- ing work has ten by Charles Green.

Virfjinibm Puerisque, and other Papers. By Robert

Louis Stevenson. (Chatto Windus.) IT is a delight to read and to handle one of the most characteristic and inspired of Stevenson's works in this most dainty of editions. Printed on hne paper, with a rubricated title-page, and ^n exquisite type, the work, though issued at no extra vagant price is indeed de luxe. On the merits of the contents there is no need now to speak We can only hope that the publishers will see' their way to issue other essays and poems of the same author in the same exquisite form.

The Cathedral Church of St. Allans. By the Rev Thomas Perkins, M. A. (Bell & Sons )

a conjunction good work was naturally to be ex

pected, and the volume is one of the best of the series. Not altogether an approver of the method adopted in restoration is Mr. Perkins, and he regards part of the edifice as it now exists as virtually modern. Such, he esteems, is the Lady Chapel, which, however, surpasses most nineteenth- century work in beauty. The illustrations are well selected and admirably executed, and the history of the cathedral and see is all that can be desired.

Saga Book of the Viking Club. Hon. Editor, F. T.

Norris. Vol. III. Part II. (Printed for the

Viking Club.)

IN addition to the report of the proceedings of the Club this number of the ' Saga Book ' contains the reports of the district secretaries descriptive of numerous interesting finds in various countries. Illustrated papers are supplied by Mr. A. G. Moffatt, M.A., on 'Palnatoki in Wales,' by Mr. A. W. Johnston, F.S.A.Scot., on 'The Earl's Bu and Round Church of Orphir, Orkney,' and by Mr. J. Gray, B.Sc., on 'Anthropological Evidence of the Relations between the Races of Britain and Scan- dinavia.' Miss Eleanor Hull, Hon. Sec. of the Irish Texts Society, also contributes 'Irish Episodes in Icelandic Literature.'

> To the many interesting brochuresDr. T. N. Brush- field, F.S.A., has reprinted from the Transactions of various learned societies must be added one on Britain's Burse, or the New Exchange, otherwise Durham House, for some centuries the residence of the Bishops of Durham. It constitutes, with its numerous illustrations, an admirable addition to our knowledge of London topography.

EDUCATIONAL works that have reached us include Danish Self-Taught, with Phonetic Pronunciation, by W. F. Harvey, M.A. (Maryborough & Co.), and A Skeleton French Grammar, by H. G. Atkins, M.A. Blackie & Son), a serviceable little volume.

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