25 FEBRUARY 1893, page 18

Recent Novels.*

THE writer who chooses to be known as "Maarten Maartens " has given us an undoubtedly able but very bewildering novel. The one thing clear is that God's Fool has a didactic as......

Books.

ITALY AND HER INVADERS.* WE are glad to welcome a second edition of Mr. Hodgkin's book, in which a great subject is worthily treated. No period of history better repays study......