21 JANUARY 1882, page 19

John Barlow's Ward.*

Tnis is a clever, though somewhat slight, story in two volumes. The heroine, Hester, is beloved by two men considerably older than herself. One is a Lancashire millowner, named......

Sir Charles Lyell.* When The Poet Rogers Heard From Mrs.

Lyell that she had been to Norway, with her husband, without having seen a waterfall, he said, "That comes of having a man with a hammer for a.. fellow-traveller." No......