15 OCTOBER 1864, page 16

Two Houseeiold Novels.*

THE difficulty of the household novel, the story which describes the fortunes of a family rather than those of an individual, would seem to be this,—the author is driven by the......

Books.

A DICTIONARY OF SLANG.* Tars is a very valuable book, and though the author is quite aware of its incompleteness it is much fuller and much more satisfactory than we have any......