4 APRIL 1874, page 18

The Folk-lore Of Rome.*

WE don't know that we have much excuse to offer—the title of this book alone, connected as it is with those "Spanish Patrailas " and "Sagas from the Far East," ought to have......

An Unkind Novelist.* Authors Are Very Cruel ; Especially, If

we may be allowed the bull, authoresses. In old times tales and romances ended, for the most part, well ; now-a-days they almost always end unsatisfac- torily, if not badly. We......