12 NOVEMBER 1881, page 19

A Fresh Biography Of Madame De Stael.* We Know Nothing

in literary history at once so illustrative of the proverbial evanescence of fame, and such a proof of the influence of time on even the tenderest emotions, than the reduced......

The Old Factort.* Tins Is Not A Good Novel, But

it is a better book, more interest- ing, lively, and original than a great many novels which are • The Old Factory. By W. Westall. London: Tinsley Brothers. very successful. Mr.......