5 JUNE 1880, page 18

Hellenica.* It Is Difficult To Read A Collection Of Essays

like these with eqnanimity, or to review it with equity. Some of the essays are -so good, and others are so much the reverse of good, that the Acritic ' s mind, to use an......

Miss Braddon's New Novel.*

THE perversities of literary destiny are certainly strange. Charles Lamb spent the better part of his life upon the sum- mit of a lofty stool in a London office, copying words......