2 NOVEMBER 1889, page 20

The Third Volume Of Blackie's Modern Cyclopedia, Closing...

short article on Firdusi, the Persian epic poet, has just been published, and, like its predecessors, contains a vast amount of information carefully and almost painfully......

Studies On The Legend Of The Holy Grail. By Alfred

Nutt. (David Nutt.)—This is one of the books which, unfortunately for their chance of due appreciation, very few persons besides the author are competent to review. Mr. Nutt has......

Egypt Under Ismail.*

Ismail, PASHA succeeded to the throne, if it may be so called, early in 1863. His way to it had been cleared by a curious acci- dent,—the submersion of a train as it was......

Current Literature.

The fourth volume of the new issue of Chambers's Encyclopceclia carries the reader from " Dionysius " to " Friction," and indicates even more completely than the three volumes......