26 DECEMBER 1885, page 25

The Post Office London Directory. (kelly And Co.)—the...

1886 is the eighty-seventh annual issue of this useful and care- fully compiled directory. Its correctness up to date of publication may be gauged by the facts that it contains......

The Luck Of The Darrells. By James Payn. 3 Vols.

(Longmans).— This is not among the best of Mr. Payn's stories. The writing is sparkling but attenw 5, and the sparkle is of a kind to which we have grown almost too accustomed.......

The Poems Of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. (houghton And Co.,...

and New York.)—Mr Aldrich is a versatile writer, and many readers unfamiliar with his poetry may remember his stories. All he does is for the most part in a vein peculiar to......