30 JANUARY 1886, page 20

Two Sensational Stories.*

WE cannot see much promise in A Cardinal Sin, said to have been "Hugh Conway's" first novel. It is a fair sensational story, quite readable when you have nothing better to do,......

Mr. Froude's " Ocea.na." 0 Whether Byron Would Have...

write an Atlantis," after reading Mr. Froude's practical commentary upon Sir James Harrington's Oceana—a title Mr. Fronde has so happily given to his account of a recent visit......