14 JANUARY 1882, page 20

A New Volume Of Verse.*

THAT Mrs. Pfeiffer holds a place of her own among minor min- strels has been thoroughly acknowledged, though, perhaps, her merits have been better discerned by literary critics......

Mr. Sully On Illusions.*

IT would hardly have been possible for Mr. Sully to produce an uninteresting book on such a subject as that of "Illusions," and this volume of nearly 400 pages has all his usual......