20 AUGUST 1887, page 24

Alexia.* It Is Not Often That So Much Delicate Art

is displayed in the telling of so slight a story as this. Not only is the plot so skilfully interwoven with the finer passion of the tale that it is almost spun, as it were, out......

The Second Series Of " Obiter Dicta."• The Second Series

of Mr. Birrell's Obiter Dicta is not much, if it be at all, inferior to the first series, and no formal eulogy therefore is requisite for literary chit-chat which deserves the......

A Volume Of Verse For Children.*

Ir is not given to many to write for children such things as the small people really care for. If one has ever observed the manner in which an intelligent child regards a book......