24 DECEMBER 1881, page 21

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......

A Medleval Poet.*

TASTE fluctuates, and what is right to-day is wrong to-morrow; the old love is thrown aside for the new, and we leave the new again for the old. Villon's poetic reputation is a......