13 DECEMBER 1884, page 17

Two Gift-books For Christmas.*

"OF making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness to the flesh." Thus wrote the wisest of men ; but his words find scant observance in these later days,......

The Lover's Creed.*

" ONE, and one only, is the lover's creed,"—at least in Mrs. Cashel Hoey's pleasant story ; though it must be confessed that from the standpoint of some novelists such a sharp......