3 MAY 1890, page 19

Mr. O'brien's Novel.*

THAT Mr. William O'Brien should have written a novel is not so much a source of surprise to us as that he should never have done so before. But politics are a busy calling, and......

Mr. Macaulay's Translation Of Herodotits.*

NOTHING could be more praiseworthy than Mr. Macaulay's conception of a translator's duties. He begins with the deter- mination to have as definite an idea as possible of what it......