11 FEBRUARY 1882, page 39

Alaric Spenceley.* In Noticing A Book By The Authoress Of

George Geith, we are not dealing with the work of a tyro. Mrs. Riddell has tried her skill as a novelist long ago, and has shown both power and ten- derness in her treatment of......

Mr. Jefferson Davis And Secession.*

Ii these ponderous volumes Mr. Davis claims to have vindicated the action of the Southern politicians in connection with the American Civil War. His fundamental argument is......