6 JANUARY 1872, page 26

Frere's Life And Works.*

[FIRST NOTICE.] FEW who read these volumes will hesitate in coming to the con- clusion that Mr. Frere was intended by nature for a student or a writer, rather than a politician.......

A New Form Of "puff."

THAT may be a pardonable deception which is meant to betray people into reading an innocent tale for a child, instead of a startling story ; but it unquestionably is a......