17 DECEMBER 1881, page 19

A Basil Plant.*

Miss ETHEL COXON takes for the motto of her second novel one of the most striking sentences in Middlemarch, perhaps the one that gives the reader the truest measure of the......

The Story Of The Persian War.*

Jr there be less of original handling in Mr. Church's stories from Herodotus than there necessarily was in the stories from Homer and from the Athenian Dramatists, there is even......