19 NOVEMBER 1881, page 15

Books.

DEMOCRACY: AN AMERICAN NOVEL.* Tuts is a very brilliant little book, of the authorship of which we have no knowledge whatever. Its chief object is, of course, to attack the......

Art.

THE FIRST OF MAY : A FAIRY MASQUE.* THERE is one drawback to the use of blank verse by minor- poets and amateurs,—the fact, namely, that in unskilful hands it so readily ceases......