27 JANUARY 1894, page 4

The Autobiography Of An Old Passport.* This Is A Book

which has many virtues and but few faults, but among these last is one of grave import. We may account it almost as blameless as Mr. W. S. Gilbert's hero, who— "Had one sorrow,......

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MR. ESPINASSE'S REMINISCENCES.* IN the course of a long and active life devoted almost en. tirely to literary journalism, it has been the good fortune of Mr. Espinasse to come......