23 JANUARY 1892, page 25

The Trance Of Fitzerse. By Alfred Fitzerse. (the London...

Society.)—It would be rash to say that anything in fiction is an original idea ; otherwise we should have said that the dominating idea of this story is an unquestionable......

The Older Nonconformity Of Wrexham. By Alfred Neobald...

Minshall, and Thomas, Wrexham.)—The curious in the religious movements of the country and the world should read this volume, which has a general and British, as well as a local......

Engravings, And Their Value. By J. Herbert Slater. (l....

Gill.)—The author of this valuabl 3 book starts with the statement that " the valuation of engravings, if it is to be accomplished satisfactorily, requires g -eat technical......

Descriptive Lists Of American, International, Romantic,...

by W. M. Griswold. (Griswold, Cam- bridge, Mass.)—This bulky volume of more than six hundred pages, printed in double columns, must have given no slight labour to the compiler.......

Novals.—a Woman's Heart. By Mrs. Alexander. 3 Vols. (f. V.

White and Co.)—This is a powerful story, worthy of the author of "The Wooing o't," but painful to a degree. Lord de Walden leaves the wife whom he had once really loved, for an......

Japanese Letters. Eastern Impressions Of Western Men And...

contained in the Correspondence of Tokiwara and Yashiri. Edited by Commander Hastings Berkeley, R.N. (John Murray.)—The first glance at this volume will remind the reader of the......

The Man Of Genius. By Cesare Lombroso. With...

Scott.)—This is a book written with more pretension than good sense. Having discovered that genius is a disease, and that the signs of degeneration are found more freqtiently in......