7 JANUARY 1888, page 29

Books.

MR. SWINBURNE'S " LOCRINE." THERE is a lavish splendour of expression about this tragedy, which is sometimes, like the light reflected and refracted from a row of crystal......

Ireland's Disea.se.*

WE cordially agree with Mr. Gladstone that this is a most "significant book." On the whole, if only our people be as familiar as by this time they ought to be with those matters......