22 MAY 1880, page 16

Books.

NORDENSKIOLD AND THE NORTH-EAST PASSAGE.* EVERY ONE now knows that Professor Nordenskiold has per- formed an exploit which may do more to unite nations who at present are too......

The Village Life.*

WHEN Horace wrote the much-quoted words, which Coningtorr renders by the following couplet,— "But gods, and men, and booksellers agree To place their ban on middling poetry," he......