15 SEPTEMBER 1883, page 18

Altiora Peto.*

A WRITER in the last number of the Quarterly Review expresses tart dissatisfaction with the present state of criticism in England. It has fallen, he asserts, for the most part,......

An Italian On Friendship.* Or All Contemporary Italian...

de Amicis is beyond question the most popular. By his graphic sketches from military life, his literary portraits, his picturesque narra- tives of travel, he has acquired. a......