13 MAY 1893, page 23

Prisoners And Paupers In The United States.*

IN this wprk Mr. Boies will at least succeed in startling his readers, both by his facts, in many respects very dismal, and by his " remedies," in more than one particular......

Tho Now Number Of The English Historical Review Is An

excep- tionally interesting one. A passage of Byzantine history which even in the pages of Gibbon is dark and doubtful, is to some extent lighted up by Mr. E. W. Brooks, in an......

The Ordinary Layman, Looking To The Contents Of The New

num- ber of the Church Quarterly Review, will probably turn in the first instance to "The Journalist in Fiction." He will find it to be a very careful and complimentary......

Current Literature.

Perhaps the most generally interesting and popular paper in the new number of the Economic Review at the present time is Mr. Joseph King's, on " The Alcohol Monopoly in Switzer-......