12 APRIL 1862, page 19

Books.

VICTOR HUGO'S NEW NOVEL.* THE new novel, with which Victor Hugo is now occupying the world of letters in Paris, is a remarkable attempt to examine social pro- blems from the......

Gleig's Life Of Wellington.*

THE Life of Arthur, first Duke of Wellington, has yet to be written. It has been the cherished ambition of Mr. Gleig to write that life ; a laudable ambition, for the subject is......