26 AUGUST 1882, page 17

• One Of "us."*

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MRS. OLIPHANT'S LITERARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 1790-1825.* THIS is a very difficult book to estimate. At once brilliant and uncertain, now containing as bright and true a......