30 DECEMBER 1893, page 20

Recent Novels.*

THE fiction of the month is, in the main, disappointing. Well- known novelists have not been doing their best work, and though some fairly capable new writers have put in an......

Lord Wolseley On Napoleon's Decline And Fall.* Just...

beginning of the great war of 1870, Lord Beaconsfield warned an audience to which be was speaking that they must not, in the course of it, " expect dramatic oata.stroplaes." It......