26 JANUARY 1884, page 18

Books.

ALARIC WATTS.* THERE are some lives—like John Sterling's, for example,—which • there was no intrinsic reason for writing, and which might in- deed well, or even better, so far......

Mr. Gallenga's Iberian Reminiscences.* Of Mr. Gallenga's...

is no praise to say that it is eminently readable. His style, pointed, incisive, attractive, always compels interest; rapid and fluent, he carries the reader with him, in the......