SCIENCE.

Tropical Nature and other Essays. By Alfred R. Wallace. (Macmillan.) Star-gazing, Past and Present. By J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. (Macmillan.)

The Voyage of the Challenger: The Atlantic. A preliminary account. By Sir C. Wyville Thomson. (Macmillan.)

Industrial Chemistry. Based on Payen's 'Précis de Chimie Industrielle.' Edited, &c., by B. H. Paul. (Longmans.)

Proteus; or Unity in Nature. By Charles Bland Radcliffe, M.D. (Macmillan.)

The Theory of Sound. By John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, M.A., F.R.S. (Macmillan.)

Studies in Spectrum Analysis. By J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. (C. Kegan Paul.)

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Lectures on the Labour Question. By Thomas Brassey, M.P. (Longmans.) Political Science; or the State Theoretically and Practically considered. By Theodore D. Woolsey. (Sampson Low.)

Free Trade and Protection. By Henry Fawcett, M.P. (Macmillan.) Chapters on Practical Political Economy, being the substance of Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford. By Bonamy Price, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Oxford. (C. Kegan Paul.) The Freedom of Science in the Modern State. By Rudolf Virchow, M.D. With a new Preface by the Author. Translated from the German, with the Author's sanction. (Murray.)

Rome in Canada: The Ultramontane Struggle for Supremacy over the Civil Authority By Charles Lindsey. (Toronto: Lovell Brothers. London: Sampson Low.)

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History of the English People. By John Richard Green, M.A. Vol. II. (Macmillan.)

Diderot and the Encyclopædists. By John Morley. 2 vols. (Chapman & Hall.)

A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century. From the papers (A.D. 1676-1686) of Christopher Jeaffreson, of Dullingham House, Cambridgeshire. Edited by John Cordy Jeaffreson. 2 vols. (Hurst & Blackett.)

An Account of the Polynesian Race: its Origin and Migrations, and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People. By Abraham Fornander. Vol. I. (Trübner.)

The Dawn of History: an Introduction to Prehistoric Study. Edited by C. F. Keary, M.A., of the British Museum. (Mozley & Smith.)

A History of England in the Eighteenth Century. By W. E. H. Lecky. Vols. I. and II. (Longmans.)

A History of Greece, from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864. By George Finlay, LL.D. A new edition revised and edited by the Rev. H. F. Tozer. 7 vols. (Clarendon Press.)

The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy. By Jacob Burckhardt. Authorised Translation by S. G. C. Middlemore. 2 vols. (C. Kegan Paul.)

Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe from 1794-1805. By L. Dora Schmitz. Vol. I., 1794-1797. (Bell & Sons.)

The Life of George Combe, Author of The Constitution of Man.' By Charles Gibbon. 2 vols. (Macmillan.)

Histoire d'un Crime. Par Victor Hugo. (Paris, Calmer Lévy.)

The Life of John Milton narrated in connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time. By David Masson. Vols. IV. and V. (Macmillan.)

Memories of our Great Towns. By Dr. Doran. (Chatto & Windus.)

Field-Marshal Count Moltke's Letters from Russia.

Napier. (C. Kegan Paul.)

Life and Letters of James Hinton.

Translated by Robina

Edited by Ellice Hopkins, with an Introduction by Sir William Gull. (C. Kegan Paul.)

Lucretius. By W. H. Mallock. [Ancient Classics for English Readers.] (Blackwood.)

The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development. By William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History. Vol. III. (Clarendon Press.)

George Moore, Merchant and Philanthropist. By Samuel Smiles, LL.D. (Routledge.)

The Chief Actors of the Puritan Revolution. By Peter Bayne. (Clarke & Co.)

The War Correspondence of the 'Daily News,' 1877-8, continued from the Fall of Kars to the Signature of the Preliminaries of Peace. (Macmillan.) The Life and Reign of Richard the Third, with the Story of Perkin Warbeck. By James Gairdner. (Longmans.)

The Troubadours: a History of Provençal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages. By Francis Hueffer. (Chatto & Windus.)

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Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold. (Macmillan.)

La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic. By Robert Browning. (Smith & Elder.)

The House of Ravensburg. By the Hon. Roden Noel. (Daldy & Isbister.) History and Poetry of the Scottish Border. By Professor Veitch. (Glasgow, Maclehose.)

The Art of Beauty. By Mrs. H. R. Haweis. (Chatto & Windus.)

W. M. Hunt's Talks about Art. (Macmillan.)

Walks in London. By Augustus J. Hare. 2 vols.

2 vols. (Daldy & Isbister.)

Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne. Written in the years 1819 and 1820, and now given from the original manuscript, with introduction and notes by Harry Buxton Forman. (Reeves & Co.)

This is a book which it would have been better not to publish, but which, being published, cannot but be read with great interest. An English Garner: Ingatherings from our History and Literature. By Edward Arber. (E. Arber, Southgate, London, N.)

Contemporary Art. By James Comyns Carr. With etchings from representative works. (Chatto & Windus.)

Holiday Rambles in Ordinary Places. By a Wife and her Husband. (Daldy & Isbister.)

The Fern Paradise. By Francis George Heath. Illustrated Edition. (Sampson Low.)

William Blake: Etchings from His Works. By W. B. Scott. With descriptive text. (Chatto & Windus.)

North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life. By Mrs. Comyns Carr. (Chatto & Windus.)

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella, now for the first time translated into English. By John Addington Symonds. (Smith & Elder.)

Between Whiles: or Wayside Amusements of a Working Life. Edited by Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D. (Bell & Sons.)

Swallow Flights. By Louise Chandler Moulton. (Macmillan.)

Pascal. By Principal Tulloch. [Foreign Classics for English Readers.] (Blackwood.)

The Wise Men of Greece, in a Series of Dramatic Dialogues. By John Stuart Blackie. (Macmillan.)

The Temples of the Jews and other Buildings in the Horan Area at Jerusalem. By James Ferguson. (Murray.)

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A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam.' Fifth Edition. By Mrs. Brassey. (Longmans.)

Through the Dark Continent. By Henry M. Stanley. 2 vols. (Sampson Low.)

Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea, 1875-6. By Captain Sir G. J. Nares. Third Edition. 2 vols. (Sampson Low.)

An Inland Voyage. By Robert Louis Stevenson. (C. Kegan Paul.) Bulgaria before the War. By H. C. Barkley, Author of Between the Danube and the Black Sea.' (Murray.)

The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. By Richard F. Burton. (C. Kegan Paul.)

Upper Egypt: its People and its Products. By C. B. Klunzinger, with a Prefatory Notice by Dr. Georg Schweinfurth. (Blackie.)

Alpine Ascents and Adventures. By H. Schütz Wilson. (Sampson Low.)

Perak and the Malays: Sarong' and 'Kris.' By Major F. McNair. (Tinsley Brothers.)

The Great Thirst Land: a Ride through Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Kalahoris Desert. By Parker Gillmore. (Cassell.)

The late Dr. Charles Beke's Discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian. Edited by his Widow. (Trübner.)

The Land of Bolivar; or War, Peace, and Adventures in the Republic of Venezuela. By James W. Spence. (Sampson Low.)

Among the Spanish People. By Hugh James Rose. (Bentley.)

Dodone et ses Ruines. Par Constantin Carrapanos. 2 vols. (Paris, Hachette.)

A superb contribution to Greek archæology. The volume of illustrations forms a complete and accurate museum in itself, and the whole work is produced in the most sumptuous manner.

South Africa. By Anthony Trollope. 2 vols. (Chapman & Hall.)
The Tourist's Guide to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. By Walter H.
Tregellas. (Stanford.)

Life in the Mofussil; or the Civilian in Lower Bengal. By an Ex-Civilian.
In 2 vols. (C. Kegan Paul.)

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By Love and Law. By Lizzie Alldridge. 3 vols. (Smith & Elder.)

A Blue Stocking. By Mrs. Edwardes. (Bentley.)

The Pilot and His Wife. Translated from the German of Jonas Lie, by G. L. Tottenham. (Blackwood.)

What He Cost Her. By James Payn. 3 vols. (Chatto & Windus.)

By Proxy. By James Payn. 2 vols. (Chatto & Windus.)

The World Well Lost.

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By E. Lynn Lynton. 2 vols.

(Chatto &

Miss Misanthrope. By Justin McCarthy. 2 vols. (Chatto & Windus.) Marmorne. (Blackwood.)

An Open Verdict. By the Author of 'Lady Audley's Secret.' (Maxwell.) By Celia's Arbour: a Tale of Portsmouth Town. By Walter Besant and James Rice. 3 vols. (Sampson Low.)

Straightforward. By Holme Lee. 3 vols. (Smith & Elder.)

Artist and Amateur; or The Surface of Life. By Mrs. Caddy. 3 vols. (Chapman & Hall.)

Gentle and Simple. By Margaret Agnes Paul. 2 vols. (C. Kegan Paul.) Forget-me-Nots. By Julia Kavanagh. 3 vols. (Bentley.)

The Primrose Path. By Mrs. Oliphant. (Hurst & Blackett.)

NUBAR PASHA AND OUR ASIAN

PROTECTORATE.

Ar the present hour the question which presents itself most forcibly to all who take an interest in the politics of the East, is, What is to be the nature of our Protectorate over Asiatic Turkey? Whether that Protectorate has been wisely assumed or not, is a matter foreign to the discussion before us. It is enough for our purpose to accept the fact that we have to a certain extent made ourselves responsible for the introduction of good government into Asia. This being so, it is obvious that our first duty is to consider how, if at all, this responsibility can best be discharged. There is no object to be gained in pointing out the divers objections to any intervention on our part in the affairs of Asia. Nor do I see much good in attempting to show on à priori grounds that intervention must ultimately eventuate in annexation. It may be so in the more or less remote future. But for the moment all we have undertaken to do, and are therefore, bound to do, is to exercise a supervision over the reforms which the Porte has pledged itself to introduce. How this may best be done is a matter on which there are few persons better qualified to speak with authority than the distinguished statesman whose name we have appended to the heading of this article. I have been enabled to ascertain what his views on the question are. Before, however, I lay these views before my readers, it may be well to say something as to the general conditions of the problem with which according— as I believe I am justified in stating to Nubar Pasha's view England has to deal.

Now, in almost all the criticisms I have met with on the subject of our Asian Protectorate, it is taken for granted that, unless we are prepared to resort to force, we have no means of inducing the Porte to comply with our advice. These criticisms are chiefly based upon the experience of our Indian Empire. We are told that whenever we have endeavoured to reorganise the government of a Native state under our Protectorate, we have found our efforts baffled till we have actually employed direct intimidation; and we are therefore assured that we shall find Turkey unamenable to our advice till we are prepared to coerce her into compliance. I plead guilty to an