17 JANUARY 1885, page 18

The Cat, Past And Present.* M. Ciai1pflecry, As All The

world knows, is a skilled writer of short and readable books on many subjects, and among others he has dealt with The Cat, Past and Present. It is unnecessary to say that his......

Philistia.*

ERNEST Ls BRETON, the hero of this clever and amusing novel, may be described as the sort of man about whom one doubts whether he would not sooner have the whipping assigned by......