31 JULY 1880, page 18

Books.

ITALY AND HER INVADERS.* THE names of Goth, Hun, and Vandal are very familiar to us. This is undoubtedly due to Gibbon's great work, to which we instinctively turn when we wish......

Mr. Le Fanu's " P1trcell Papers."*

THE Purcell Papers of Mr. Le Fans', though some of his earliest, include also some of his most striking literary creations, and the interesting memoir which Mr. Graves has......