27 DECEMBER 1873, page 20

In The Isle Of Wight.*

NOVEL-READERS are, we suppose, easily satisfied, or the 'writers and publishers of fiction would not so often produce feeble and common-place stories. The novelist in composing......

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......