12 MARCH 1864, page 20

Doctor Jacob.*

IT is a rare thing to find an author or authoress's second novel decidedly superior to the first. We thought John and 1 good—except its title, which is very embarrassing, for......

Mr. Henry Taylor's Poems.*

THE fact that Mr. Henry Taylor is avowedly one of those con- scious artists who intend their writings to illustrate a theory ought alone to entitle him to some attention, even......