20 NOVEMBER 1880, page 23

Sir Edwin Landseer.* This Number Of The Series Of The

lives of the great artists is not so much a biography of Sir E. Landseer as a disquisition on a catalogue of his works. Perhaps there were difficulties in re- viewing the......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Little Britain, and the Spectre Bridegroom, by Washington Irving, illustrated by C. 0. Murray (Sampson Low and Co.), makes a very pretty volume. The " Little......

Life In Connaught.* Tam Is One Of The Most Melancholy

books we have read for a long time, and all the more melancholy because the condition of Ireland in its most backward quarter remains as hope- less and unsetiled as ever. The......