19 JANUARY 1884, page 19

Three Novels.* In Spite Of Provoking Inequalities Of...

of several absurdi- ties of plot, Dr. MacDonald's new novel is a stronger and more careful piece of work than some of the fictions he has recently pr3duced. One gets a little......

Mr. Furnealix's Annals Of Tacitits.*

WE have been kept waiting for this edition of the Annals for a long time, not less, to use an appropriate quotation, than " quindecim annos, grande mortalis aevi spatium." The......