'146 Fortnightk Review. No. L (Chapman and Hall.)—There are good
and poor papers in this number—two very good ones. Mr. Bagehot has written a masterly paper on the Cabinet, which we discuss else- where. Mr. M. D. Conway has given a clear and delicately-drawn im- pression of Mr. Lincoln, which everrone will read with delight. George Eliot's paper is disappointing, rather harsh and contemptuous to a book of great value; and without original thought. Mr. Lewes gives us two papers, one on "Heart and Brain," which we are not competent to criticize, and a thoughtful, not too thoughtful one, on "The Prin- ciples of Success in Literature." The opening of Mr. Trollope's tale is tame ; and if any one can find a meaning in Sir John Herschel's strange little dialogue on atoms we cannot. The article by Mr. Harrison on the Iron trade lock-out is very able, if a little one-sided.
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