29 JANUARY 1887, page 20

Phantasms Of The Living.* These Two Weighty Volumes Would Be

of very much greater use for the purpose for which they were compiled, if they were pro- vided with a much fuller index than we have here presented to us. What we should wish to......

Recent Novels.*

THERE are some novelists who never disappoint us, for the simple reason that we expect nothing from them, or, at any rate, so little, that their performance can hardly fall......