12 NOVEMBER 1898, page 21

The Third Duke Of Gra.pton.* Tass Is A Dreary And

a tragic book ; but its dreariness and tragedy diminish in no sense its historical value. It is dreary because the Duke of Grafton, Premier in 1765, did not embellish his pages......

Novels Of The Week.*

SPEAKING at Edinburgh last year, Mr. Arthur Balfour expressed his surprise that modern novelists did not more frequently cast their romances in the form of life-histories. As a......