28 MAY 1887, page 17

Recent Novels.* So The World Wags Is A Novel Which

has apparently been written to serve a purpose as well as to tell a story, the purpose being the suggestion of a plan for purifying the moral atmo- sphere of what is called......

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scores of volumes of verse have been published during the last twelve months by poetasters ambitions of a reputation they are never destined to attain. The critic whose vocation......