16 DECEMBER 1871, page 17

Barbara Heathcote's Trial.*

Ir is nearly two years since we last laid down a novel of Miss Carey's, and though we recognize iu the book before us—by some very marked characteristics of style—the same hand......

George Eliot's Middlemarch."*

WHATEVER the value of "the higher criticism," it can hardly be denied that criticism of a mere commencement cannot very easily be criticism of " the higher " kind,—that it must......