10 DECEMBER 1881, page 18

A Princess's "birthday Book."f'

FEW critical matters are harder to decide justly than those which turn upon the reception that should be given to the- works of those exalted personages whose position in the......

Mr. Buch.a.n.a_n's Novel.*

IN the preface to this romance in three volumes, the author says that the purpose of the book is to set forth " the vanity and folly of individual Hate." In other words, he......