16 OCTOBER 1886, page 13

William Barnes.

T EN days ago, one of the most interesting figures in English literature passed away almost without notice. The Rev. William Barnes (known, where he was known at all, as the "......

Mr. George Meredith's Novels.

I T is an undoubted fact, and a curious one, that after a period of nearer thirty than twenty-five years of authorship, Mr. George Meredith should have suddenly arrived at......