5 NOVEMBER 1892, page 4

Books.

THE YOUTH OF FREDERICK THE GREAT.* THE writing of an impartial history is a feat which, though often proposed, is seldom accomplished. For a French- man of to-day to write a......

Howell's Letters.* Howell's Letters, Now More Than Two...

old, although comparatively forgotten, have never fallen into absolute neglect; and the admiration expressed for them by more than one famous author of our century has, to some......