5 MARCH 1864, page 19

Words And Places.*

PERHAPS the most expressive prefatory statement to be made in treating of Mr. Taylor's book is that it is the result of twelve years' study of something like four hundred works......

The Magazines.

THE Cornhill contains the first part of Mr. Thackeray's story, which, oddly enough, is written as if he had contemplated its posthumous publication, the hero telling his story......