5 AUGUST 1899, page 21

The Magazines.

THE Nineteenth Century for August has some very good papers. The one which will be looked at first is, we doubt not, the essay headed " Why are our Brains Deteriorating ? " by......

Novels Of The Week.* We Are Afraid That Mr. Grier's

prose epic of the age of Clive can hardly challenge comparisons with Homer's except in regard to its length. The scope and method of Like Another ' Helen are accurately......