5 APRIL 1890, page 23

A Century Of American Literature.* The First Century Of The

American Republic, which, as Mr. Smith's preface reminds us, came to a close last year, though it cannot boast a single imaginative writer of colossal propor- tions, has......

Les Trois Cceurs.*

PERHAPS if the same self-restraint we acknowledge to be necessary in governing our physical passions were regarded as equally necessary in directing our intellectual faculties,......