1 NOVEMBER 1884, page 36

Books.

THE EXPLORERS OF CENTRAL ASIA.* THIS is a flagrant, but acknowledged, and from its opportune- ness perhaps justifiable, piece of book-making. It consists of abstracts, with......

A New Life Of Sydney Smith.* Or A Man Of

so sane and bright a mind as Sydney Smith, it is hardly possible to learn too much ; and Mr. Reid's im- portant though modest supplement to Lady Holland's biography of him......