9 FEBRUARY 1895, page 25

Mr. George Gissing's New Novel.*

FIFTEEN or twenty years ago, there was a vacant place in English fiction, waiting for a competent writer to fill it. We had novels of high society, written sometimes with know-......

The Inner Life Of The Post-office.* We Take From Mr.

Baines's own preface the name he has chosen for the purpose of his book,—the "inner life" of the Post-Office, of which he was for many years a faithful and an active servant, in......