6 NOVEMBER 1880, page 20

Colonel Grodekoffs Ride From Samarkand To Herat. By...

(W. H. Allen and Co.)—There is no little interest in this volume. Under any circumstances, so adventurous a journey would form a good subject for a narrative, while the......

Some Papers In The Magazines.

LORD SHERBROOKE'S (Mr. Lowe's) paper on "Legislation for Ireland," in the Nineteenth Century, comes to this,—that there should be no legislation for Ireland, but that the laws......

Literary Frivolities, Fancies, Follies, And Frolics. By...

(Chatto and Windus.)—Mr. Dobson has collected here a number of acrostics, bouts times, anagrams, chronograms (a chronogram may be instanced by the discovery of 666, the "Num-......

Current Literature.

Five Weeks in Iceland. By C. A. de Fonblanque. (Bentley.)— Mrs. Fonblanque visited Iceland in the summer of 1879, in company with four friends. She did not see anything out of......