12 OCTOBER 1872, page 20

Imitative Literature.*

THE tendency which leads to the production of " Pastiches " and "Suppositions d'Auteur," though a natural, is apt to become a dangerous one. Every youthful admirer smitten by a......

Letters To Me Scattered.

WE doubt the wisdom of republishing these letters in one colleo- tion. Letters, whether private or published, however valuable at the moment when they are written, are, and are......