12 OCTOBER 1872, page 22

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......

A Story Of England."

UNTIL we met with the Story of England, we confess we were-un- aware of the extremes to which Irish nationalism, grown morbid under contumely and infuriated by restraint, can......

Miss Cobbe's Essays:* - Several Of Miss Cobbe's...

may be said in pass- ing; take the breathless critic over a very wide and rarefied region of theology and metaphysics—have been noticed from time to time in the Spectator. For......