26 NOVEMBER 1887, page 23

An Old French Love-story.• It Is A Welcome Thing To

encounter a writer with so considerable a gift for original verse condescending to exercise his talent in a field generally worked by literary hacks or authors whose entire lack......

Recent Novels.* In Any Survey Of The Novels Of The

month, it is fitting that the place of honour should be given to the latest story by Mrs. Henry Wood. Mrs. Wood was in no sense of the word a great novelist ; but her work was......