21 JANUARY 1888, page 12

British Sturdiness.

M R. RUSKIN, in an interesting letter to the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday, complains almost piteously of the vanishing landmarks in the British character, the elements of which he......

The Difficulty Of Romance-writers.

T HE reign of the new romance-writer, the novelist who refuses to obey conditions, and uses the supernatural, or the half-supernatural, or the impossible, or the wildly im-......