... MRS. ALFRED HUNT'S That Other Person (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus) calls for especial notice, as an example of sound and satis factory workmanship. If, as has often been suggested, by way of the jest ...

... IT is impossible, without ample space, to do the barest justice to Mrs. Humphry Ward's Robert Elsmere (3 vols: Smiths, Elder, and Co.), and, indeed, the ordinary, and necessary, attitude of a review ...

... iO-wJS FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, so widely and so favourably known as the authoress of That Lasso' Lowrie's, is not, we think, so fortunate on American as on English ground. Washington is the scene o ...

... CONSPIRACY: a Cuban Romance, by Adam Badeau (1 vol.: F. Warne and Co.), is obviously intended to convey a good deal of secret history under the disguise of fiction. As is inevitable in such cases, i ...

... OUIDA'S Princess Napraxine, the leading lady of the novel so entitled (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus), is a sort of human iceberg, whose course is marked by corpses and wrecked lives. This is no meta ...

... THE FATE OF MADAME LATOUR: A Tale of the Great Salt Lake, by Mrs. A. G. Paddock (I vol., Trübner and Co.), is an exception to the usual run of fiction imported from America by being really interesti ...

... SOME day, when less important matters have been settled, the Lunacy Laws will, in many particulars, have to be reformed. Meanwhile, novelists who consider that fiction has uses beyond the chronicling ...

... MR. GIBBON has taken for the subject of A Princess of Jutedom (3 vols.: Ward and Downey) the possible results that might, in skilful hands, be wrought with the datura poison, supposing its effects t ...

... THE Forest of Dean, before it was given over wholly to coal, iron, and general civilisation, provides a field for romance that has been strangely neglected by writers who wish to find a place for inci ...

... BOTH Nineteenth Century and Contemporary commence the month with articles in favour of Home Rule. It is true the Marquis of Blandford, whose paper in the Nineteenth Century derives excep tional import ...

... FOR KING AND KENT: a True Story of the Great Rebellion, by Colonel Colomb (3 vols.: Remington and Co.), should be rather described not as a, but as the, true story of the Kentish rising under Gori ...

... MR. FRANK BARRETT, in Honest Davie, a Novel (3 vols.: Bentley and Son), continues faithful to the colouring and atmosphere of the last century, of which he has discovered for himself the not very pr ...