6 NOVEMBER 1886, page 17

Memoirs Of Sir Robert Christison!

SOME time ago, there was noticed in the columns of the Spectator the very interesting, though incomplete, auto- biography of Sir Robert Christison, the eminent Scotch physician......

Books •

SIR PERCIVAL! Tins book wants substance. It is all atmosphere and im- pression. That which gave John Inglesant its attractiveness is here in plenty, but not that which made one......

Miss Yonge's New Novel.•

Ix is refreshing to come from the sensationalism, the " psycho- logy," the extravagance, the morbidness, and worse than morbidness, of much contemporary fiction, to the restful,......