12 APRIL 1884, page 17

The Canon's Ward.* Is Mr. Payn Going To Reverse The

general order of things with novelists, and do his best work last ? If this novel were his first, we should look very hopefully forward; and if Thicker than Water had been his......

Garden Lore.*

Amoxo the first desires that come when the earlier ambitions of youth have been satisfied or discarded is the possession of a spot, however small, where work can be put aside,......