7 DECEMBER 1872, page 19

Expiated.*

REMEMBERING the high terms in which we spoke of this author's first work, we are almost afraid that we must have been too favour- ably impressed by the novelty and freshness of......

The Rise Of Great Families.* Sir Bernard Burke Has...

his office by several con- tributions to the romance of history. His Extinct Peerages is an interesting and suggestive volume, out of whose contents scores of novels might be......