4 JANUARY 1868, page 24

Books.

EIGHTY YEARS OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.* THE want of a leading idea in this book, or rather the presence of two mutually destructive ideas, has to some extent impaired its merit.......

The Pretty Widow.*

A lively and neatly finished story of social life in a dull little French town, with central English figures to render the French character-painting more striking and piquant,......