18 JANUARY 1890, page 17

Books.

MR. TRAILL ON STRAFFORD.* THE battle which raged around Strafford in his life has raged round his memory ever since, and on the whole, though the verdict tends to vary with the......

Two Impossible Tales.*

BOTH these exceedingly clever stories are failures, and the failure in both is due to the same cause. They are too im- probable. As they are intended to be improbable, and as an......