29 DECEMBER 1888, page 20

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......

M. Bonvalot's Travels.* M. Bonvalot, An Enterprising...

on the best of terms with the Russians, had already seen much of Central Asia, started forth three years ago, under the same high protection, to make his way from their......