12 SEPTEMBER 1896, page 19

Four Volumes Of Short Stories To Be Read.*

OF the four short stories given in Day Books, the two prin- cipal ones are " Morrison's Heir" and "The Fifth Edition." The leading figure in the first is a girl whose stupendous......

The Poetical Works Of William Morris.*

ON the death of the poet Crabbe Lord Melbourne rubbed his hands gleefully and said, "I am so glad when one of these fellows dies, because then one has his works complete on......

Books On Painting.*

WHEN Rossetti visited Paris and saw the work of Manet and Courbet, he dismissed it as slovenly scrawling. This is the kind of apercu we too often get from the hasty, hostile......