13 AUGUST 1864, page 19

Strife And Rest.* The Author Of Strife And Rest Has

departed from the usual path of the sensation novelists. Instead of making his story turn on impossible incidents, harrowing scenes, or terrible catastrophes, he uses the......

The Facts Of The Cotton Famine.*

Tins book has only one conspicuous defect,—there is a little too much of it. A history of the cotton famine was required, and Mr. Arthur Arnold, allowing for some occasional......