2 JANUARY 1897, page 20

The Land Of Suspense.

I N the remarkable and most pathetic story which the brilliant author of the series on "The Seen and the Unseen" contributes to the New Year's number of Black. wood's Magazine,......

The Virtue Of Book-collecting.

W E hardly understand Mr. Gladstone's eulogy upon book-collecting as a pursuit, and besides quarrelling with him for his sin in lending his authority to the use of a barbaric......