4 SEPTEMBER 1886, page 17

Books.

HONOR t DE BALZAC.* " ifs turned critic, like all the incapables who miss their mark.' That was the opinion of Balzac of the critic-race; and Disraeli only appropriated the......

Mr. Thom's New Sermons.*

A CONTEMPORARY has called the first series of these sermons "essay-like." It is a curious epithet to apply to sermons of which 'theory' forms so very small a part, and the......