8 MARCH 1879, page 21

William Cobbett.* Li These Elegant But Rather Expensive...

Smith has given us a very readable life of a very remarkable man. Fas- tidious critics might call it a merely tolerable life of a rather in- tolerable man ; but as biographies......

Mrs. Craven's Reminiscences.*

IT would be hard for the most ardent Conservative to deny that our French neighbours have improved in one respect of late years. They have wider sympathies, and England has a......