18 JANUARY 1890, page 18

Anton Rubinstein.*

THE prevailing craze for antedating everything finds one of its least satisfactory outcomes in the practice of compiling biographies of celebrities who are still alive. Such......

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......