11 MARCH 1871, page 19

Tales Of Old Japan.* Wiiether Regarded From The Outside Or

from the inside, from an artistic or from a literary point of view, this book must be con- sidered one of the most remarkable productions ever submitted to the English reader.......

Scotch Sermons.*

" ALLow me to make the sermons of a people, and I care not who may make its laws." That is quite as sound a dictum as the say- ing which was quoted by Fletcher of Saltoun, and......