16 MARCH 1889, page 21

Mr. Besant's Last Novel.*

WHAT Dorothy Forster is to "the '45," Mr. Besant's new historical novel, For Faith and Freedom, is to the miserable and shameful episodes of Monmouth's Rebellion and the Bloody......

Mr. Roden Noel's New Poem.*

MR. NOEL'S poem is a plea, to put the matter briefly, for belief,—belief, that is, in the moral government of the world. His conception of his hero is in itself, it may be said,......

Two Novels—american And French.*

IT has often been said, and said quite truly, that recent American art, both plastic and literary, shows various traces of French influence; but it is very easy to exaggerate......