RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7914, 5 April 1887, Page 6

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a number of new books,

From the well-known publishers, Messrs. Macmillan and Co., the following additions to their " Colonial Library." which, from the excellence of the books themselves, combined with the low price, haa become deservedly popular in the colonies: —Tom Brown's School Days ; Matthew Arnold's Eesays on Criticism ; About Money and other Papers ; The Dove in the Eagle's Nest; The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton ; A House Divided Against Itself; A Modern Telernachns; Nerera, a Tale of Ancient Rome ; Sir Pereival, a Story of the Pas); and Present. The same publishers have also just issued The New English, in two volumes, by T. L. Kington Oliphant; The Rhetoric of Aristotle, by J. B. C. Welldon, M.A. ; Early Letters of Thomas Carlyle, in two volumes, edited by Ohas. Eliot Norton ; Madam Tabby's Establishment, by Kari; Four Winds Farm, by Mrs. Molesworth; The Odyssey of Homer, Books 1-12, translated Into English verse by the Earl of Carnarvon ; Letters and Essays by the late William K. Clifford, edited by Leslie Btephen and Frederick Pollock; Our National Institutions, a sliort Sketch for Sohoola, by Anna Buckland.

From Messrs. Blackie and Son we have to acknowledge the following : —Yussuf the Guide, by G. M. Fenn ; Dorothy's Dilemma, a Tale of the Time of Charles 1., by Caroline Austin ; Devon Boys, a Tale of the North Shore, by G. M. Penn; The Everslie Secrets, by E. E. Green ; Down the Snow Stairs, or From Good-night to Good-morning, by Alice Corkran; A Final Reckoning, a Tale of Bush Life in Australia, by G. A, Henty; The Late Miss Hollingford, by Rosa Mulholland ; 3?he Bravest; of the Brave, or With Peterborough in Spain, by G. A. Henty; The White Squall, a Story of the Sargasso Sea, by John C. Hutcheson ; The Young Carthaginian, or a Struggle for Empire, by G. A. Henty. From the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, we have received tho following new publications :—Mary's Meadow, by Juliana Horatia Ewing; How Bill Sime Honoured. Hia Father, by A.W.; Geoffrey Bennett, by Mrs. Isla Sitwell; The Black Witch of Honecritch, by Phcebe Allen; Wrought by Prayer, by Catharine E. Smith ; The Great Prayer of Christendom, or Thoughts on the Lord's Prayer, by the .author of Chronicles of the Schonherg-Cotta '.Family; Chimney Park, or Mrs. Carter's Comings, by the author of Clara's Confirmation, &c.; Dora and Nora, or Dreaming and Doing, by Annette Lyster; The Dawn of l)ay, volume for 1886; Home Sunbeams, written by Gain Reddish, with pictures by Waldemar Friedrich; Sunday-school Reward Cards, consisting of views of celebrated cathedrals and churches, aad texts of ScripJure, beautifully executed. From Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton we have received Yeuaie Walton's Womanhood, by G. R. Graham Clark, author of Yeusia Walton; also, from Messrs. Honlston and Sons, the Ladies' Gazette of Fashion, xwnthly part.