7 MAY 1892, page 20

Mr. Riidyard Kipling's Ballads.*

RUDYARD Kin,ING has a true gift for rhythm, and a still truer gift for dramatic effect. He gives us the hackneyed slang, the coarse, grinning humour, the devil-may-carish......

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FREEMAN'S HISTORY OF SICILY.* WE have accidentally delayed noticing the first two volumes of this book, which appeared last year, and now, just after the issue of a third, the......