20 JULY 1895, page 19

The Story Of Bessie Costrell.*

This is a painful but very powerful story, which is as like a bit of actual life as, in its very different field, a painting by Rembrandt of the interior of a Dutch cottage. We......

The Horse And Its Kin.* Many Books Have Been Written

on the horse—more than four thousand, according to the authors of the little work before us—and there is yet no sign of the subject being exhausted. The excuse, however, offered......