5 NOVEMBER 1887, page 21

Haldane's Life Of Adam Smith.*

Mn. HALDANE will forgive us for saying that his well-intentioned, and in many respects well-executed, " study " of Adam Smith suggests, in the first place, Emerson's view of......

Italian Popular Poetry.* " Foliz-songs," Says Miss Busk,...

intimate expressions of the ideas of the people." It is an amiable platitude, this, and venerable from its antiquity, originally propounded, perhaps, in that comparatively......