7 JANUARY 1899, page 30

Regent Short Stories.*

A WRITER in one of the January magazines contends that we must, in our books, have an escape from the actual. We can see the outside of things for ourselves ; " what we require......

Jerome Cardan,

WE congratulate Mr. Waters on this interesting and careful biography of a strange figure,—one of the strangest in the history of European culture and science. The work is most......