11 AUGUST 1877, page 18

Masston.*

THIS is at once a clever but an unsatisfactory book, without extenuating circumstances. There is in it so much vigorous and picturesque, yet too frequently slovenly writing ; so......

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W I LKIE COLLINS: A LITERARY ESTIMATE.* IT is just seven-and-twenty years since a young and almost un- known author made an audacious attempt to gain the public favour by the......