5 MAY 1888, page 23

The Magazines.

THE Nineteenth Century is full of good papers, the most attractive being Mr. Gladstone's answer to Mrs. Ward, men- tioned elsewhere.—" The Defencelessness of London," though it......

Current Literature.

The Land Question : its Examination and Solution. By Thomas J. Elliot. (Cassell and Co.)—Professor Elliot's contribution to this -question is the analysis of the farm accounts......

The Chameleon. By Charles J. Dunphie. (ward And Downey.)...

"fugitive fancies on many-coloured matters," as the author calls them, are as difficult to criticise, or even to describe, as such things commonly are. Perhaps the best way of......

By Far The Most Conspicuous Figure In Only A Governess,

by Rosa N. Carey (Bentley), is the hero, Launcelot, who would, we think, have been more appropriately fitted with the name of another of the Knights of the Round Table. What he......