29 OCTOBER 1881, page 9

Modern Prodigality. •

T HE author of the very amusing, though rather thin, essay on "Luxury, Ancient and Modern," which appears this week in the Quarterly Review, after repeating a number of stories......

The Becky Sharps Of Life And Fiction.

T HE close of the trial of Mabel Wilberforce for perjury was an event over which Thackeray would have brooded in an extasy of imaginative cynicism. The impression evidently made......