25 OCTOBER 1884, page 19

Between Two Oceans.* There Are So Many Books About America

that we do not want another, will probably be the thought of many on taking up this volume. But the same objects are viewed so differently by each traveller, that a certain......

Stories Of Friendship.*

THE German novel and novelette are apt to be a terror to reader and reviewer. Badly written and composed, dull, fall of "drowsy placidity," and void of wit or humour, to get......