27 JANUARY 1894, page 5

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,......

Mrs. Beeton Condensed.*

IT is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that, as stated in this volume, " the higher we go in the social scale, the more we find of women and girls, even of Royal blood, who......