20 AUGUST 1881, page 17

"a Lost Cause."

THERE is probably not one person in a thousand who does not occasionally long for a novel to read. The idler who is con- demned to solitude at afternoon tea finds company in the......

The Campaigns In Afghanistan.* It Was Only To Be Expected

that the recent campaigns in Afghanistan would produce a literature of their own ; but so far it must be admitted that very little has been added to the stock of our knowledge......