11 MARCH 1893, Page 24

The Bookman continues, to say the least of it, to

sustain its reputation as a mélange of criticism, gossip, and original articles on writers and books. The best of the contents of the March number are, perhaps, "New Writers "—including Miss Jane Bar- low, Mrs. Steel, Mrs. Pinsent, and Miss Margaret Fletcher—and

"Count Robert of Paris," an interesting little bit of fresh criti- cism by Professor W. M, Ramsay. "The Apprenticeship of Robert Louis Stevenson" is the most ambitious paper in this number ; but it strikes us that the gold-leaf in it is beaten out very thin indeed.