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Great Brifaifi 401 Barrowe, Separatist {1550 ^-l^gj) ami the Exiled Church of Anistenlam {1593-1622), pp. 412. It is announced that the next volume in the well-known " (ioupil " series will be a memoir of Queen Anne, whose reign surely supplies abundant material for that lavish display of illustration which forms one of the greatest attractions of the Goupil series. Mr. David Nutt publishes The Rising of 1745 : laith a Bibliography of Jacobite History, 1689-1788, by Charles Sanford Terry, M.A. This is the third volume in the series, " Scottish History from Contemporary Writers." The appendix contains a good bibliography of Jacobite his- tory. A letter written by Charles Edward to Cluny Macpherson when on board L' Heureux, September 20, 1746, is reproduced. A new edition of Gibbon's Memoirs, edited by Dr. Birkbeck Hill, is to be published in England by Methuen, and in the United States by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. A new edition of the Letters of Horace Walpole is in preparation by Mrs. Paget Toynbee, for the Clarendon Press. It will consist of ten or eleven octavo volumes, and will be provided with a full index. The Life and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. Hugh Culling Eardky Childers, by his son, Lieut. -Colonel Spencer Childers, will soon be pub- lished by John Murray, who also has in press 77;!? Autobiography of Lt. - General Sir Harry Smith, Bart., of Aliwal, G. C. B., edited by Mr. G. C. Moore Smith. Messrs. Blackwood and Sons will shortly issue a volume of reminis- cences by the late " Father of the House of Commons," Sir John Mow- bray, Bart. It is entitled Seventy Years at Westminster. Sir John was a member of Lord Derby's government in 1858. The book will contain his articles which appeared in Blackwood^ s Magazine, supplemented by letters and notes, edited by his daughter. The Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by his son, Leonard Huxley, is just published by D. Appleton and Co. The narrative is made up in great part of Huxley's letters. There are several appendixes. Messrs. Longmans and Co. announce the second volume of Sir William Hunter's History of British Lndia, which takes up the narrative at the overthrow of the English in the Spice Archipelago in 1623, and carries it up to the time of the Union of the old and new Companies in 1708. Sir William's death left the ninth chapter uncompleted ; and his outline of this has been filled in by other hands. Captain A. T. Mahan's The War in South Africa (New York, Peter Fenelon Collier and Son) covers the operations of the earlier days in Natal, the contest in Cape Colony and the southern Free State, and prac- tically ends with the occupation of Bloemfontein by the British. Subse- quent events are dismissed in brief paragraphs. Sir John G. Bourinot has written an introduction. The book is elaborately illustrated.