22 DECEMBER 1883, page 21

Mr. Besant's New Novel.*

WE recently referred to Mr. Walter Besant as one of the two novelists of the day who are at once realistic and romantic, Mr. Clark Russell being the other ; here is a new story......

The Expansion Of England.* Tins Book Sets Forth A View

of modern English history which may fitly be called original. For, although more than hinted at by Ranke and others, it has never yet been presented with such force, or so......