19 NOVEMBER 1881, page 24

Julian Karslake's Secret. By Mrs. John H. Needell....

and Co.)—Julian Karslake's Secret is a book that promises more than it performs. The first volume is the best, and the last is the worst. The opening incidents have a freshness......

Mr. Alfred Austin's New Tragedy.* To Many Readers, This...

will be all the more welcome— as we confess it is to us — because it has been written primarily to be acted, and only secondarily to be read. Mr. Austin tells us in his preface......

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Aunt Judy's Volume for 1881; and Aunt Judy's New Series, First Number.—It is a year since we noticed Aunt Judy. Her Christmas volume is before us ; not a Christmas volume in the......