16 DECEMBER 1865, page 14

Books.

THE CHARITIES OF EUROPE.* M. DE LIEFDE has hit upon a great subject, but we cannot say his work has been well done. It would be difficult to imagine a better topic, or one which......

The Cypresses.*

THE predecessors of the Cypresses had already gone, for us, into the semi-oblivion that is the common lot of all but a few out of the crowd of novels—individually more or less......