12 SEPTEMBER 1885, page 21

The Waters Of Hercules.* Tux Romantic Charm Of Fatality Has

not lost its spell in fiction, although we have fallen upon matter-of-fact and material days. Human nature is still stronger than fashion, and we love mystery, the inevitable,......

A Disappointed General.*

A MILITARY career was the natural destiny of the son of a vigorous Peninsular officer, who bad fought through the Napoleonic wars, and who wore a memorial lock of Sir John......