5 APRIL 1879, page 18

Books.

MR. MINTO'S DEFOE.* MR. MINT° has selected a subject which does not admit of brilliant treatment. Defoe has written what was once, and perhaps is still, the most popular of......

Quarter-sessions, From Queen Elizabeth To Queen Anne.*

QUARTER-SESSIONS, Mr. Hamilton tells us, were something very different in the times of Elizabeth and James I. from what they are under Victoria. Then, they were but little......