14 AUGUST 1880, page 15

Books.

MR. BROWNING'S NEW IDYLS.* THERE is nothing in this series of Dramatic Idyls so striking as " Ivan Ivimovitch," in the series published last year, and hardly anything, we think,......

Mr. Freeman's "historical Essays."*

THESE Essays have appeared before in the form of articles, which have, uo doubt, been widely read. However, many additions have been made to them in the present volume, and in......