7 JANUARY 1893, page 26

Finger-prints.*

THE swarming populousness of the earth certainly calls for our possession of some means of distinguishing our fellow- creatures one from another, and of such means we should......

Recent Novels.*

Mn. WILLIAM BLACK'S new novel has something of the panoramic quality—given by a constantly shifting background — of The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton ; and we recognise our......