9 JANUARY 1897, page 21

On Some Of The Old Novels.*

WE have been re-reading the old novels, and were this paper to appear this day four years, we might say with literal truth, what we may already say with actual truth—we have......

The Letters Of Victor Hugo.* Since Literature Has Become...

and all the world is learned in books, an insatiable curiosity too often takes the place of legitimate interest. We are seldom content with the poems and novels which a great......