23 OCTOBER 1897, page 22

T.a.ine's Journeys Through France.* Tins Very Pleasant...

outcome of notes taken by the late Monsieur Taine in the course of journeys through France made in three successive years when the writer was acting as examiner of candidates......

The Four Lost Empires.*

Mn. FREWEN LORD has hit upon a very happy idea for the purpose and construction of his book, and that is sweet and commendable in a writer at the present over-written day.......