29 DECEMBER 1888, page 18

Recent Novels.*

WITH the exception of Captain Hawley Smart's vivacious tale, the principal novels of the month provide reading which is, for the most part, rather unseasonably sombre and......

Mr. Bryce On The American Common- Wealth.*

[SECOND NOTICE.] THE most interesting volume in Mr. Bryce's book is, as we said in our previous notice, the second, which is chiefly con- cerned with State government ; but the......