16 AUGUST 1890, page 19

Books.

THE SHADOW OF A DREAM.* BETTER justice will be meted to this latest problem of Bostonian society by Mr. Howells, if we dissociate it from his previous successes, and judge what......

English Novelists Before Defoe.*

IT is agreeable to meet with:a writer who is not only master of his subject, but who knows how to treat it in a lively and graceful style. There are several English scholars......