20 JULY 1872, page 21

A Diplomatist In Germany, 1810-1870.* Mr. Ward Has Been, No

doubt, an excellent servant of the British Government and a good representative of the British nation, but he has not acquired the art of making a book. He is full of good sense......

Hermann Agha.*

THERE are at present two prevailing types of novels, the reflective and the colloquial. At the one extreme is .21fidd1emarc1, in which George Eliot's elaborate analysis plays......