11 JANUARY 1896, page 19

Bibliomania.t

THE author of The Book-Hunter in London has written a very instructive and sometimes entertaining account of a sport with which he seems to be thoroughly conversant ; it is......

Ga.lt's Novels Of Scottish Life.* " Balzac Fat Un Homme

d'affaires et un homme d'affaires endette." That is how Taine begins his essay on Balzac, with a sentence which ought to apply, above all men in the world, to Scott ; bat, look......

Ideal France.*

THERE is perhaps no truer measure of human genius than the strength of the influence which it leaves behind in those who have been linked with it in the closest intimacy. It......