18 DECEMBER 1880, page 20

Mr. Hardy's New Novel.*

THERE is a class of novels which we are compelled by critical canons to call good, and which, nevertheless, we read only with a certain effort, and from a sense of duty. There......

Illustrated Books.

A VERY effective etching by Rajon, after a picture by Bonnat, forms the frontispiece to the third volume of the Magazine of Art.* Of the many other full-page illustrations here......