24 SEPTEMBER 1898, page 17

The Great Recruiter.*

OF all the manias that afflict mankind the most ancient and curious is probably the mania for collecting. The victims of this craze collect pretty nearly everything, from books......

Books.

DEAN MERIVALE.* Ow the eve of his sixty-fourth birthday Charles Merivale, who had then been Dean of Ely for a little more than two years, began to write his autobiography. The......