In addition to the foregoing, we have received : THEOLOGICAL AND BIBLICAL. Duff (Archibald), Old Testament Theology; or, the History of Hebrew Religion. Vol. II., The Deuteronomic Reformation in Century VII., B.C. (Black) Scot (A. F.), Offering and Sacrifice .(Burleigh: 26 Parker (Dr. Joseph), Studies in Texts ...(Horace Marshall) 3/6 Askwith (E. H.). The Christian Conception of Holiness .........(Macmillan) Moule (H. G.), The Secret of the Presence (Seeley) 3/3 Harris (J. Rendel), The Gospel of The Twelve Apostles (Cam. Univ. Press) 5) POETRY, CRITICISM, AND BELLES LETTRES. Dew-Smith (Alice), The Diary of a Dreamer Slater (David), Tentamina Stearns (F. P.). The Midsummer of Italian Art Crump (John F.), The Witchery of Books ..... .... (Unwin) 60 .(Blackwell, Oxford) net 3,6 .........(Putnam's Sons) ..(Simpkin, Marshall) Carpenter (Edward), The Story of Eros and Psyche (Swan Sonnenschein) Longfield (Lewis). 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T.), Mountaineering Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, 1900 Temple Primers: The Greek Drama, by Lionel Barnett. of India, by Romesh C. Dutt Hubert (P. G.), The Stage as a Career ......... 6 (Heywood) 1/0 .(Clive) ..(Blackie) 1/6 ..(Chatto) 1/0 (Longmans) 10 6 ..(Murray) net 5/0 The Civilisation (Dent) each, net 10 ....(Putnam's Sons) .(S.P.C.K.) Jessett (M. G.), The Key to South Africa: Delagoa Bay (Unwin) 1/0 Chapman (J. Jay), Practical Agitation ..(Nutt) 3,6 Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1899. .(Washington: Govt. Printing Office) Davis (Arthur), The Hebrew Accents .(Myers) net 3/6 Ireland (Alleyne), The Anglo-Boer Conflict ..(Sands & Co.) 1,0 Lakané (John H.), The Diplomatic Relations of the United States and Spanish America (John Hopkins Press, Baltimore) Callahan (J. M.), Cuba and International Relations. (John Hopkins Press) Exhibition Paris: 1900....... (Heinemann) net 2,0 Bowden-Rowlands (Lilian), The Piteousness of Passing Things (New Century Press) 3/6 20 ..(Philip & Son) 2,6 .(Constable) net 3/6 Edwards (W. D.), Commercial Law Rhodes (T.), Rhodes's Steamship Guide ..... The Manchester Stage, 1880-1900: Criticisms Reprinted from the Manchester Guardian Our Weekly Competition. Result of No. 34 (New Series). WE asked our readers last week to furnish such a description of a motor car as Dr. Johnson might have written in his Visit to the Hebrides if he had encountered one of these vehicles in his travels. Several competitora, ignoring the terms of our competition, have personated Boswell instead of Johnson. F. L. A., of Ealing, would have been awarded the prize if she had not made Johnson's description a spoken instead of a written one. We asked for such a description as the Doctor might have given in his Visit to the Hebrides, and we are bound by the letter of our offer. We have awarded the prize to Mr. S. Berkley, 31, Springfield-road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, to whom a cheque for One Guinea has been sent. Mr. Berkley's answer is as follows: - That the eye may be the victim of hallucination, that the sense of hearing may misconceive its own internal impressions, believing that to be external to itself which is occasioned only by its own imperfection; nay, that even the olfactory organs, quickened by desire, or enfeebled by disease, may leap to conclusions unwarranted by fact and contrary to probability — each of these things separately is possible, and indeed borne out by experience; but that three senses should simultaneously combine to delude one who has hitherto called himself a reasonable being would be incredible but for the following circumstance: Yesterday, on the high road, within fall view of the mansion of my host, there flashed, crashed, shot by me, with what appeared unexampled velocity, a machine, a portent, hideous as unexpected. Unaided by visible force external to itself it precipitated offensive igneous vapour as it passed, and instantly disappeared. Among other answers are these: In the morning we rose to pursue our journey, with the alacrity imparted by the refreshment of repose. But although the influence of Somnus had invigorated our limbs, it had not, it would seem, succeeded in embuing us with that mental fortitude requisite for the encountering of unforeseen and formidable danger. For, I must confess, it was not with the intrepidity of a Fabricius that I. first came in contact with that monstrous prodigy of human invention, the Motor Car. We were making the ascent of a somewhat uneasy road, when my companion, in vehement and inelegant vernacular, called upon me to beware; and in the space of a moment, with incredible velocity, and with a noise compared with which the bulls of Lucania were assuredly harmonious, this novel vehicle passed by. Alarm, however, for my personal security, and disgust at the nauseating odour that saluted our nostrils after its departure, could not but temper my admiration for the superiority of Human Ingenuity. [S. F.] No, sir, I shall not be persuaded that any consideration of public profit or private convenience, any reasoning of the refined intellect or instinctive apprehension of the vulgar mind can estimate the guilt of the man who contrived this contemptible vehicle. It is a savage chariot, unarmed, indeed, with scythes, but emitting groans of the damned and odours of Tartarus. It disturbs the innocent games of childhood and the peripatetic meditations of the philosopher. Popular wisdom prohibits the setting of the cart before the horse. Here you see a horseless cart whose reckless speed surpasses the swiftest horses “qualis equos Thraeissa fatigat Harpalyce "— a car which resembles the incredible inventions of Arabian magi. In the shadows of the rough mountains of Caledonia, in the depopulated valleys of the north, this monstrum horrendum may be suffered. But I refuse to imagine its irruption into the orderly bustle of Fleet-street. [F. L. A., Ealing] Answers also received from: H. F. H., Nottingham; C. E. H., Richmond; T. B. W., Bridgwater; L. L., Ramsgate; W. J. N., Sheffield; A. W., West Hampstead; P. K., London; G. M. W., Hull; L. J. M., London; H. W. D., London; W. E. L. P., Oxford; W. B., London; G. H. H., London; G. R. W., Cambridge; E. A. S., Sevenoaks. Competition No. 35 (New Series). WE offer a prize of One Guinea for the best rendering into English verse of the portion of Emil Verhaeren's poem which we quote on p. 420 from Iris. RULES. Answers, addressed "Literary Competition, THE ACADEMY, 43, Chancery-lane, W.C.," must reach us not later than the first post of Tuesday, May 22. 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