24 DECEMBER 1881, page 20

Mr. Payn's New Novel.*

THE older Mr. James Payn grows—we beg it to be understood that we allude to his literary age, that.we refer, not to the man, but to the novelist—the cheerier he becomes, and the......

Selections Of Sonnets.* Mr. Waddington's Selection From...

"the Poets of the Past" is the third of the kind we have had within the last few years. First, there was, in 1873, Mr. Dennis's ad- mirable little selection, of which we have......