12 DECEMBER 1874, page 18

Miss Thackeray's Fairy Stories.*

WE never admire Miss Thackeray more than when she gives her fancy the rein for the purpose of casting round modern life some of the undefinable glamour and wonder in which the......

Sir Samuel Baker's Expedition.*

THE general result of Sir Samuel Baker's Expedition was so well known before his narrative was published, the inexplicable em- ployment of "the incarnation of the slave trade,"......