5 AUGUST 1876, Page 20

Temple Bar, for August. (Bentley.)—When a magazine has serial stories

in the same number by writers of the calibre of Mr. Trollop°, Mr. Wilkie Collins, and Mrs. Alexander, it encourages its readers to regard tho remaining articles as padding. Mr. Walter Besant's paper, " Piron and Opera Comique," deserves a better fate than this. The article on Churchill may pass muster, though we dissent from the writer's conclusion, placing this satirist almost on a level with "glorious John." The verses are poor and thin.