28 MAY 1887, page 19

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......

Four Books On Ireland.*

THE reading of three out of the four books on Ireland whose names we have given below (the fourth, as we shall presently see, is a work of a very different kind, and is, indeed,......