... HARRINGTON'S FORTUNES, by Mr. Alfred Randal I (Samue Tinsley), is a novel which few will have the patience to wade through. It is quite possible that, self-exiled from his native land, the author ma ...

... nr. THE North American Review opens with a paper by M. de Lesseps on the Panama Canal, which he does not hesitate to declare will be easier to begin, to finish, and to maintain, than the Suez Canal. ...

... Mn i-nd; THE STORY OF A FORTUNATE MAN In Four Chapters I. I WAS an only child, my name was Orlando Pybell, and my father's name was Orlando Pybell also. My father had an only brother, and he-- Marmadu ...

... DAIREEN, by F. Frankfort Moore (Smith and Elder).-- Mr. Moore deserves ample credit for his power of invention. Rarely have we met with a novel so full of incident, and one which at the same time ca ...

... STEADFAST UNTO DEATH: a Tale of the Irish Famine of To-day, by Mrs. Berens (1 vol., Remington and Co.).-- The plot of this tragic anecdote is dramatically imagined, and the story fairly well told. I ...

... I WONDER if every barrister goes through a course of boys. (You will understand what I mean presently.) I never went the length of making that inquiry of any other member of the Bar ...