25 FEBRUARY 1893, page 20

Bourget's Short Stories.*

THIS volume is certainly "from the French," but it cannot be called a translation into English. It is neither English nor French, as our readers will soon perceive. Of the four......

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......

Villenage In England.* The' Question Will Naturally Be...

a Russian scholar and professor should be attracted to the study of such a subject as villenage in England, and to the arduous perusal * Vittentmu in England. By Paal......