... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE reader who hopes to find in Gin a Body Meet a Body, by Constance MacEwen (2 vols., Chapman and Hall), an imitation, perhaps a rival, of Miss Helen Mathers' Comin' Through the Rye, will be sadl ...

... . By J. Palobaye Simpson. CHAPTER I. THE odds were terribly against me-- they were ten to one. But I was resolved to make the running. Cheer up, old boy, I had said to poor Archie Clevedon, as he wrung my hand at the window of my railway carriage, I will win the stakes or own myself a duffer for the rest of my life. My journey was to Hampshire as it had been arranged that I should spend my ...

... . By J. Pali; have Simpso.v. CHAPTER I. THE odds were terribly against me-- they were ten to one. But I was resolved to make the running. Cheer up, old boy, I had said to poor Archie Clevedon, as he wrung my hand at the window of my railway carriage, I will win the stakes or own myself a duffer for the rest of my life. My journey was to Hampshire as it had been arranged that I should spend ...

... STRANGE CHAPMAN, a North of England story, by W. Marshall, B. A. (3 vols., Hurst and Blackett), is so good in many ways that its failures to be good enough as a whole amount to trials of temper. The ...

... NORTHAM CLOISTERS, by the author of Alcestis (2 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.), is a novel of much more than ordinary merit. It is full of thought, and of knowledge of character and feeling, while ...

... POOR ARCHIE'S GIRLS, by Kathleen Knox (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.), is distinguished by an unusual amount of power displayed-- we may almost say wasted-- upon a singularly disagree able and unna ...

... I. THE brief convincing resumé of the dangers of The Proposed Channel Tunnel and the accompanying Protest from repre sentative men of every shade of politics which head the Nineteenth Century for ...

... II. In Blackwood Bilochistan; Our Latest Acquisition, presents a somewhat prepossessing picture-- raids, massacres, and frequent wife murders by provoked husbands notwithstanding-- of the frank, goo ...

... . By G. A. Henty. WE were sitting over our wine after a quiet dinner in my chambers, the we being Lennox and Harris, both of the Middle Temple, my uncle Dick, an old Indian officer, and myself. The subject of conversation had been wraiths, and, looking at the numerous authenticated instances of appearances at the moment of death to relatives or friends far distant, we had concluded that the ...