17 JANUARY 1880, page 17

Oxford.* Tuts Is Not An Entertaining Little Book. The Author

falls between two stools. He hopes that " by adopting the narrative form, the dry bones of a handbook may be made to live." The result is a weak broth,—mere bones and water, in......

French Parties, By An English Liberal.* Tins Book, We Are

told, was intended by the author as a com- plete history of the rival parties which have in turn ruled France for the last hundred years. But Mr. Macdonell did not live to carry......