17 MAY 1873, page 23

The Islands Of The Western Pacific.*

BOOKS of travel in the South-Sea Islands have abounded of late in both English and French literature, and the beautiful, remote, savage, sunny isles are almost exhaustively......

Mr. Furnivall On Historic Ballads.*

THESE ballads, as they are called for want of a better name, belong seemingly to periods when decency, spelling, and scansion were uninvented or unintroduced, and form a series......

My Little Girl* Let It Be Understood At Once, That

with all its faults, and everything to the contrary notwithstanding, we unhesitatingly recommend this charming little book. It is by turns fantastic, improbable, sentimental,......