24 JULY 1869, page 21

Mr. Gardiner's "prince Charles And The Spanish...

now about six years since Mr. Gardiner's History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Disgrace of Chief Justice Coke made its appearance, and his present work takes......

Hester's History.*

THERE are critics who imagine that the empire of the Novel is passing away ; they tell us that the time is fast coming—nay, is already upon us—when poems and histories and other......