23 MARCH 1889, page 20

A Dangerous Catspaw.*

THROUGHOUT the greater part of this clever story, in which Mr. Christie Murray has used his happiest art in delineating a first-rate detective in the police force,—the kind of......

The Correspondence Of John Lothrop Motley.*

THE literature of America has fairly kept pace with that of England during the last half-century. But Mr. Motley must have smiled, we think, when Washington Irving called the......

Soldiers Three.*

As a wholesome corrective to what may be called the oleo- graphic style of depicting military life, now so much in vogue, Mr. Kipling's brilliant sketches of the barrack-room,......