6 JUNE 1885, page 20

"the Talk Of The Town."

Faom a writer who attributes great importance in novels to the plot, and who, if we do not misremember, has spent a certain amount of scorn on claims to recognition as literary......

Mr. Stanley And The Congo State.*

IT is highly probable that the publication of this work marks a stage in the history of the Congo and of Africa ; it is morally certain that it marks a stage in the career of......