19 JUNE 1897, page 20

A New Naval History.*

THE first volume of what is intended to be a standard history of the English Navy from the earliest times must have cost the author some of those misgivings to which Livy......

Two 'volumes Of Short Stories.* No Matter How Pessimistic A

view one may take of the ten- dencies of modern fiction, it is impossible not to feel a certain complacency when one contemplates the achievements of our short-story writers.......