18 APRIL 1885, page 17

Books.

GLENAVE RIL.* Glenaveril is an ambitious attempt to write in the metre and the tone of Don Yuan, and so far as we can judge from the first book, a very poor attempt. First,......

Diana Of The Crossways.* In The Preface To This Latest,

and, perhaps, most characteristic, of Mr. Meredith's philosopho-sociological novels, the leading motive of the book is stated in language so striking that it were unfair not to......