28 DECEMBER 1895, page 19

Recent Novels.*

THERE is some very delicate and beautiful work in Mrs. Clifford's new noveL And there is also a good deal of work • (1.) A Floes of Santa.,: the Story of a Simple Woman's Life.......

Books.

PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY'S ESSAYS.* THE volume to which the present Essays form a sequel was published five years ago, and covers the same period of English literature. In the......