25 MARCH 1882, page 20

The Freres.*

Mas. ALEXANDER'S novels are pre-eminently of the kind to be studied when one has nothing better to do. This is not intended in contempt of them ; on the contrary, we have often......

Mr. Buchanan's Ballads.*

How many of these ballads are new,—a few certainly have been published in earlier volumes of Mr. Buchanan's,—we are not able to say ; but a considerable number of those which......