28 SEPTEMBER 1889, page 18

Recent Novels.*

THOUGH the title-page of The Tree of Knowledge gives only the initial letters of its author's Christian name, no reader of average discrimination can entertain any doubt that it......

Lanciani's "ancient Rome."*

Tun specialty of Signor Lanciani's book is the store of in- formation which it supplies as to the material life of ancient Rome, its baths, parka and gardens, public libraries,......