... HOMO SUM, by Georg Ebers, author of Uarda, &c., from the German, by Clara Bell (2 vols.: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)--. Though hardly any one but a learned archæologist such as the author could ...

... v. ^r-wr- .-*f-.--.vWA I. IN anticipation of Mr. Trevelyan's volumes, the editor of the Fortnightly furnishes a masterly estimate of Lord Macaulay as a writer. Critics may charge Macaulay with shallow ...

... II. IN the Gentleman's Magazine we have from Mr. Swinburne a picturesque poem, entitled The Sailing of the Swallow, after the manner of Mr. Tennyson's Arthurian legends. Mr. Hepworth Dixon ...

... 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 ...

... iu s* 1 nf v i j- THAT ARTFUL VICAR: THE STORY OF WHAT A CLERGY MAN TRIED TO DO FOR OTHERS AND DID FOR HIMSELF, by the author of The Member for Paris, &c. (2 vols.: Smith and Elder).-- This story, ...

... A WOMAN-HATER, by Charles Reade, D.C.L. (3 vols.: Blackwood).-- The most striking characteristic of this, as of every other of Mr. Charles Reade's novels, we should say, was the buoyant, even exuber ...

... NINE T Y- THREE. BY VICTOR HUGO, ATJTHOR OF t.ES MISfiRABLES, LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA MER, ETC., ETC. PART THE FIRST-- AT SEA BOOK THE SECOND THE CORVETTE CLAYMORE'' I. England and France in Concer ...

... NINE TV THREE BY VICTOR HUGO, AUTHOR OF LES MISERABLES, LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA MER, ETC., ETC. PART THE FIRST-- AT SEA X.-- Does He Escape? A FEW minutes later, one of those little boats called a ...

... ,3V roup of Jfoble Jlmnes. By THOMAS HARDY, Author of 11 far From the Madding Crowd f IVessex Tales f &c. Preliminary THE President looked from the window at the descending snow, and broke the silence ...

... By VICTOR HUGO. AUTHOR OF LES MISSRABLES, 44 LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA MER, ETC., ETC. I. The Top of the Dune-- (continued) A WOMAN'S voice said, We must make haste, Flécharde, is this t ...

... ARGUS FAIRBAIRN, by Henry Jackson (3 vols: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.). --Poetical justice has seldom, if ever, fared so ill as at the hands of the author of Argus Fairbairn, who visits the sin ...

... 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 ...