4 MAY 1889, page 20

Mr. Gosse On Congreve.* A Good Biography Of Congreve Has

long been a desideratum. The main facts of his life have, indeed, been recorded for us by Johnson, Leigh Hunt, and Macaulay; but none of these excellent and sympathetic critics......

The Romanist Controversy.* These Are Two Books Of...

on the Roman Controversy, the first of which is injured by a title that suggests the purpose of the author to set up a man of straw, only that the man of straw may be turned......