27 DECEMBER 1873, page 19

The Blue Ribbon.* As Soon As We Found That York,

under the name of Cruxborough, was to be the scene of the story, we indulged in hopes, not altogether realised, that all the ins-and-outs of the old Northern city would be woven......

The Literary Men Of The Last Generation.* The Admirable...

and portraits reproduced in this volume so fertile in suggestiveness, so full of interest, not only as exhi- biting the skill and humour of the artist, but as bringing before us......