2 NOVEMBER 1889, page 19

By-paths And Cross-roads.* Many Unappreciated Authors,...

are not authors at all, but only unliterary cynics, are wont to accuse critics of reviewing books without previously taking the trouble to read them; and the ancient joke about......

Egypt Under Ismail.*

Ismail, PASHA succeeded to the throne, if it may be so called, early in 1863. His way to it had been cleared by a curious acci- dent,—the submersion of a train as it was......