The Writings of King Alfred, Mr. Frederic Harrison's Harvard lecture, is issued by the Macmillan Co.
Nos. 112 and 113 of the Old South Leaflets are, respectively, "King Alfred's Description of Europe," taken from his translation of Orosius, and "Augustine in England," from King Alfred's version of Bede.
Mr. William A. Slade of the Library of Congress has in preparation a bibliography of Alfred the Great, aiming at completeness, which may be expected to be finished in time for the millennial celebration of the death of King Alfred, now deferred till October.
Messrs. Sands and Co. will publish shortly The History of Mary the First, Queen of England, by Mr. J. M. Stone, a work based on a careful study of state papers, ambassadors' despatches and other contemporary documents of that time, and elaborately illustrated.
Messrs. Archibald Constable and Co. announce a volume of hitherto unpublished Autograph Poems of James the First of England and Sixth of Scotland, which have been recently discovered in the Bodleian Library. The volume will be edited by Mr. Robert S. Rait, of New College, Oxford.
A new edition of the speeches of Cromwell, collected and edited by Charles L. Stainer, M.A. Christ Church, is announced by the Clarendon Press.
Messrs. Goupil and Co. announce Charles II. by Dr. Osmund Airy, in an edition uniform with their Mary Stuart, Charles I., etc.
Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co. announce Cavalier and Puritan in the Days of the Stuarts, compiled from the private papers and diary of Sir Richard Newdigate, and from manuscript newsletters addressed to him between 1675 and 1689. The volume will be edited by Miss Anne Emily Newdigate-Newdegate.
The Rifle Brigade, by Mr. Walter Wood (London, Grant Richards), forms the first volume of the series "British Regiments in War and Peace" which Mr. Wood has undertaken to write in order to supply a gap in the published records of the regiments forming the British army. The Rifle Corps was officially gazetted in October, 1800, has fought in many important engagements in both hemispheres, and has lately seen severe service in South Africa. The second book of the series, The Northumberland Fusileers (London, Grant Richards), will furnish a record of one of the oldest and most illustrious regiments in the British army.
Longmans, Green and Co. have just brought out Bolingbroke and His Times, by Walter Sichel, being an historical study of the times of Queen Anne.
Messrs. L. C. Page and Co. have reprinted in full the edition of 1832 of The Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George III to the Death of George IV., by Lady Anne Hamilton.
