6 FEBRUARY 1886, page 15

The Duke's Marriage.*

A WHIFF of cosmopolitanism is grateful to the sore-tried critic of fiction, after a surfeit of the petty and ultra-feminine realisms of which three out of four modern English......

King Charles Il* If Ever There Was A King Who

failed to read the lessons of history, or a man upon whom those of life were thrown away, it was he who, when he had "his own again," made the worst use of it. Charles IL has......