24 FEBRUARY 1900, page 20

Novels Of The Week.* Miss Jewett, Like Miss Wilkins, Is

an admirable delineator of the amenities of rural life in the States, and her graceful talent has never been more happily displayed than in the quaintly named volume before us,......

Russia And Her Asian Empire.*

THERE are few points of resemblance between the two works we have classed together save in the subject and a certain appreciative temper of mind. Both writers confess them-......