23 AUGUST 1879, page 18

Two New Novels.*

AMONG the various trades with which women now-a-days occupy themselves, there are few they carry on so largely as that of novel- writing. They have been addicted to it from the......

Mr. Patmore's Florilegium Amantis.*

Me. COVENTRY PATMORE has many of the gifts of the poet, but he lacks one thing,—intensity. He has sentiment, an exquisite eye for the graces of modern life, available for the......